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Bookends 10.5.4 is a popular and effective bibliography/reference and information management system for students and professionals. With Bookends you can easily import references (information about journal articles, books, etc.) from EndNote, and directly search and import from PubMed, the Web of Science, Google Scholar, JSTOR, Amazon, the Library of Congress, and hundreds of other online sources. Use a built-in browser to download references with pdfs or and/or web pages with a click. Automatic searches of PubMed let you discover articles as soon as they are published. Powerful group-based searches, with static, smart, and virtual groups.

Live Search lets you further refine searches as you type. Annotate your database with reference cross-linking with defined relationships and comments. Attach any file (such as a pdf) to a reference and view or open it instantly. There are options to automatically download, rename and organize pdf files on-the-fly from PubMed (requires access permission) or from your hard drive. Scan your word processor files and automatically generate finished manuscripts with properly formatted bibliographies. Access the power of Bookends directly from MS Word (including Word 2008) and Mellel. Scan Pages '08 and '09 files and OpenOffice 3 files, or RTF files saved from any word processor. Share your references over the Internet with anyone, on any platform (you, but not people who access your databases, must have a broadband connection).

Nisus Writer Pro 1.3 is a convenient word processing tool which brings new features such as Table of Contents, Indexing, Bookmarks, Widow and Orphan control, Cross References, Line Numbering, and Text Wrap around images.

Familiar Classic features are also on board, like attribute sensitive Find and Replace, an upgraded Nisus Macro Language, and Glossaries. Have also improved a number of existing features. For example, added a variety of additional options to control the display of notes. Footnotes can now also span across pages.

Along with those new features, kept and improved popular features like the award winning interface, Multilingual text support, easy to use Style system, Non-contiguous selection, Full Screen mode, and Linkback support. Best of all, you don't have to worry what word processor your colleague is using. The native file format is RTF (Rich Text Format), which is read by almost every word processor on the planet. Pro will also read Word (.doc), Word Perfect, and AbiWord documents.

Designed as a Unicode word processor from the ground up, Nisus Writer Pro supports Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts. Using Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) with Pro enables you to enter right to left text as in Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian. No other word processor makes it easier to combine multiple languages in a single document.

As a student or academic, you have enough to deal with. One thing you shouldn't have to do is spend time learning to use your word processor. Nisus Writer Pro allows you to start writing quickly, with its intuitive interface and tools at your command. Flexible note styles give you control over footnote and endnote layout. Bibliography tools such as Bookends and EndNote work easily with Nisus Writer Pro. Enhancing the Apple spelling dictionaries built-in to OS X are tools such as CocoAspell from Anton Leuski, Antidote RX by Druide Informatique, and the Hebrew Spelling Service from Mitz Pettel.