For Sega's coming Dreamcast machine, developers can use familiar software-writing tools like Microsoft's DirectX.
Other important writing tools include: the steel pen nib, the stylus, the brush, the pen.
However, it faces the same challenge as any creator of writing tools when it comes to expansion.
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Unlike many writing tools, Booktype is designed to keep track of a large corpus of work, allowing users to import content, grab and swap snippets, and manage attribution where necessary.
Nearly two centuries after the invention of Braille by a blind adolescent boy, the most widely used Braille-writing tools, the slate and stylus, are quite similar to the tools used by Louis Braille himself.
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Now, this isn't just a consumer tablet -- Spark's aimed at "those who love writing great software... using the typical Linux tools" -- but it will offer access to ebooks from Project Gutenberg, plus Qt and QML apps, too.
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Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving people a lot of useful tools to use it.
The creative writing course, with exams and coursework, promises to cultivate "strong writing and communication skills", valuable to employers as well as providing the tools for novels and screenplays.
Writing over at Wired, physics professor Rhett Allain takes out a set of trusty computer tools and tries to piece it all together.
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So, good list, Forbes, but you left out the most important tools of all, the cognitive artifacts that have truly made us smart: writing and notational systems, objects of travel and information technology, which really picked up somewhere around the development of the telegraph, but could be argued to have developed earlier with the wide variety of signaling systems.
And there are tools like Balsamiq that can help create reasonable mockups that can convey your idea without writing code.
Over the past several years, Fuller has steered Borland's products beyond purely engineering-orientated products (the software compliers and debuggers that, along with other tools, make up the so-called integrated development environment) to include tools for project managers, some of who may not be directly involved in code writing.
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