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WordService - Add useful text handling to Cocoa apps
Authored by: Kool on Jan 31, '05 11:33:59AM

I have been using WordServices since, well forever... I use it a lot! Especially the Reformat option to get the enters out of text.

Technically also Carbon apps could use it, if they would incorporate the right API. MS hasn't done this and therefor you can't get Service to work with it.

I have only good experiences with this software. I've never had any crash related to this software.

It's not a 10/10, but 7/10 in my eyes. There is some room for improvement I think. (though some issues are related to bugs in OS X)



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WordService - Add useful text handling to Cocoa apps
Authored by: robg on Jan 31, '05 01:07:16PM

See above for my take on what makes a PotW a "10." I really don't count down for features not included unless said feature is notable in my daily use. Since WS does what I need it to do, I haven't noticed any glaring missing features. It hasn't crashed, and it's free. Hence the 10.

10s here are not nearly as hard to earn as a 5-mouse rating in Macworld, primarily because (a) this is software I already like, and (b) these aren't full nitpick-every-detail reviews. They're meant to be informative pointers to potentially useful apps, and that's about it.

But that's the beauty of rating systems; many of them, including this one, are highly subjective :).

-rob.



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