Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of charge! MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all
i can't remember why i didn't warm to this office suite when i first tried it. openoffice remains a little fiddly through X11 on the mac (esp copy, paste and drag) - time to switch i think.
So, what is Bean? Bean is a rich text editor, with many niceties added to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. It is, to use a horrible cliché, Text Edit on steroids. Bean uses Apple's very cool NSText object to do most of what it does, bu