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OK-Writer

OK-Writer - 1.3

word processor for children

All Time: (5.0)
This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 1.3
Release Date: 2008-03-26
License: Commercial
Downloads (this version): 2,375
Downloads (all versions): 3,472
Price: $10.00

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Product Description:

OK-Writer is a word processor for Mac OS X that was designed with children and the vision-impaired in mind. Story windows have lots of big, friendly buttons that provide quick access to kids' favorite fonts, styles, and colors, as well as for saving, opening, and printing stories. Another button tells the Mac to read the story aloud to the child. OK-Writer can even recite the story as the child types it, letter-by-letter, word-by-word, sentence-by-sentence, or any combination of those!

As your child grows up, OK-Writer will grow with them. OK-Writer provides additional features tucked in the menu bar where they won't confuse younger children, but are available as your child matures. With a spell checker, find and replace, and support for adjustable tab stops, it will be years before your child outgrows OK-Writer!

OK-Writer was tested by children from ages 4 through 9, as well as by adults, so you know that anyone can figure it out -- even mom and dad! There's an extensive help system, written to be understood by older children, with a special section for grown ups to get additional information.

Although OK-Writer is shareware, there aren't any annoying reminders or crippled features -- we don't think it's right to confuse your child just to get you to pay for our software. Instead, we encourage you to pay the low shareware fee so we can continue to add new features to the software -- and we'll never hit you up for another fee for OK-Writer again! We also offer convenient site licenses for schools and similar institutions.

What's new in this version:

Typing the letter a with letter-by-letter speech enabled no longer says "aye" on Leopard when using the new Alex voice. Also, you can now set the default font in the preferences, and there's a new preference that lets you disable the "Start Over" button to help keep small kids out of trouble. In addition, you can now configure the default folder to save stories into.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.3 or later

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OK-Writer CommentaryOh No - Version: 1.3, 3/26/2008 09:26PM PST

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Ancient_Boii_Tribe
broken download
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OK-Writer Reviewfantasitc for adults as well - Version: 1.1, 8/5/2006 06:57AM PST

danceswithbeers
As a medical writer, I have to use a fair number of advanced word processing features (MS Word) during the day- but when i want to write something up that's simple or edit misc. docs, I hate using MS Word. OK-writer is now my favorite word processor.

this is a great program, and follows the best advice in programming- keep it simple. i'm going to recommend it to my friends and especially for elderly adults who may not be terribly computer literate.
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OK-Writer ReviewMy 5 year old loves it - Version: 1.0, 5/24/2004 08:08AM PST

ddm72
My son is 5 1/2 and in the early stages of learning how to read. He has quite a bit of fun just typing in words that he knows and then having OK-Writer read it back to him. Being able to play with the sizes, colors, and fonts is just the icing on the cake for him. :) The buttons all have cute little sounds they make when you click them, I think he sometimes hits them just to hear the sounds.
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