Free stories software for mac

Picture Stories lets you make little webpages of stories you write where some of the words are replaced with images (called "rebuses").
Lots of people have written cute little storybooks for kids that are like this, so I thought Id write an application that let me make them using online image search engines (of a folder on your hard drive).
Someone has probably had this idea before, but I couldnt find anything online anywhere, so I wrote it myself.
Enhancements:
- Google searching
- spell-check (on OSX)
- "open" command to load .txt files
- outputs in Unicode (UTF-16).

Sophie is a software designed to handle digital media assemblys, which allows you to combine images, text, video, and audio into a single multimedia document. It is an easy-to-use program that lets you put together documents, slideshows, presentations, annotated videos, and more.
The latest e-book, a collection of five extraordinary stories by Franz Kafka and his precursors, begins with a look at the deeper meaning of the term Kafkaesque. The preface to the Sophie e-book released earlier this year, H.G.
Wells The War of the Worlds, offers a more provocative and timely interpretation of the original science fiction classic than Stephen Spielbergs new blockbuster film starring Tom Cruise. All the Sophie e-books begin with an original and thought-provoking preface.
These e-books have many useful features as well as at least one delightfully useless feature. Two of the e-books, "JFK Witness" and Thoreaus "Walden" include guided tours created with the Sophie notebook tool.
This tool allows readers to create and share with others their own indexed and commented "readings" of important texts. Sophies search feature lists the chapter and the phrase for each occurrence of a search string.
On the more or less useless side of the feature list, a copy of Text Blender Pro is built-in to each e-book reader. Paste in any meaningful passage and the text blender will, grind, whip, puree, or liquify it until it is more or less meaningless. A few poets, song-writers or latter-day beatniks will find this to be a useful feature, but for most it will be a delectable distraction.
The other e-books included in the free download are: Joseph Conrads "The Heart of Darkness," two books by G.K. Chesterton "The Man who was Thursday," and "The Innocence of Father Brown," Thomas a Kempis "Imitatio Christi," "Pencil and Poison - Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde," Nathaniel Hawthornes "The Scarlet Letter" and Robert Louis Stevensons "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde."
Enhancements:
- Over 204 bugs have resolved since RC5. Although bug fixing was a large part of the work, we did extensive changes to the software to add new features and improve how Sophie works. We completely rewrote the entire text edit subsystem to resolve issues found in RC5, along with adding new feature to the template system to enhance the ability of Sophie to make books. During this process we replaced the entire undo/redo subsystem with a new code base which greatly simplified the interface for developers and enabled many more commands/actions to be undoable.

Are you a novelist or an author? StorYBook is a free and open source scene-based software for creative writers that helps to keep the overview over characters, locations and strands while writing a book, a novel or a story. StorYBook assists you in structuring your book.

Main features:
- StorYBook has three views: the Chronological View shows the scenes sorted by date, the Book View shows all chapters and their assigned scenes sorted by chapter and scene numbers, as you would read it in the final book, the Manage Chapters and Scenes view shows all chapters and their assigned scenes
- StorYBook helps to keep the overview, especially for complex stories with two or more strands. You imagine of StorYBook as some kind of a dynamic mind map.
- Strands and strand links: Each chapter belongs to a primary strand. Optionally other related, secondary strands can be linked to a chapter.
- Person management: Add, edit or remove persons (characters) and assign them to the related chapters.
- Location management: Add, edit or remove locations and assign them to the related chapters.
- Parts: Large projects can be split into well arranged parts.
- Informations: Chapter related informations of the currently selected part are shown as well as warnings for missing chapters or chapters existing twice. A overview list shows all present strands, persons and locations.
- Adjustable view: The chronological view can be resized any time to fit to screen, or to get a better overview if many strands are defined. Even more working space is available if you hide the information panel with a simple click on the tool bar.
- Instant save: Because StorYBook uses an embedded database to store data (and not a file) each input entered is saved in an instant. Even if the program crashes, you wont loose any data.
- Completely stand-alone: Write your book or script with your favorite software. The only link needed is the chapter number.

System requirements:
- Java 6

Enhancements
- A "quick navigation" has been implemented. Right click on a scene number and select "show in chronological view" to switch to the desired view and show the scene there. Of course this works for any view, not just for the chronological view. It is also possible to right click on a scene in the tree and select the view to shown the scene in there.
- Most dialogs are non-modal (= dont prevent the workflow on the application) and re-sizable now.
- After editing a scene, the refreshing is more accurate now. The view is always up-to-date even if the date was changed.
- When editing a scene, the date chooser has 2 new buttons now to quickly add or subtract 1 day.
- The dictionaries has been updated.
- The color chooser has some nice predefined colors now.
- Support for dark colors has been added. E.g. black can be used for a strand now. The label text will be shown in white in this case.
- At the bottom in the chronological view there is an empty row. This row has a date now (the next "empty" day, or more precisely the next day which is empty for the current part).
- Last but not least: Were looking for a new logo. More information on the community page.

TextExporter 2.1.0 is released to help you export all the stories of an InDesign document into a single file easily.

Major Features

1. Export text in three different file formats: Rich Text Format, InDesign Tagged Text and Text.
2. Export stories belonging to a specified range of pages.
3. Allows exclusion of stories on master pages.
4. Allows exclusion of stories on the pasteboard.
5. Allows exclusion of stories based on their number of characters.
6. Sort stories based on their position on the page.

PhotoshopNews Bridge Script 1.0.2 is known as a feature rich program that easily supports adding PhotoshopNews.com inside of Bridge. Yes, right inside of Adobe Bridge! The script, with installer for Mac OSX, will install PhotoshopNews.com as a Favorite in Adobe Bridge and allow you to navigate to PhotoshopNews inside of Bridge.

The PhotoshopNews script is especially useful if you wish to keep track of Photoshop news and updates or troubleshoot Photoshop issues while you have a little free time like when running a long Photoshop Batch operation in the background. You can browse PhotoshopNews and view all the stories right inside of Bridge without using a web browser or RSS news reader.

Requirements: Adobe Bridge 1.0.2 or higher

Tell Me A Story 1.1.1 is an easy to use and free application which speaks a story or text. This could be used for children who can not read or for people with poor eyesight after texts are added to the bookshelf. Click on a story title to hear it read. You can pause/continue or stop a story. Two stories are built-in and it is easy to add stories. The large buttons, large fonts and easy operation make it simple to use.

Safari Next Page makes it easy to quickly skip to the next page of a multi-page web document. The script looks for commonly named links used to indicate "next page" on web sites that spread documents over numerous pages.
By attaching this script to a Safari keyboard shortcut you can easily keyboard navigate through web news stories, search page results, etc.
Completly freeware.
Enhancements:
- Support for graphical links named next.gif or next.jpg

Lightning Brain TextStich for InDesign is a handy utility that will help you with threading of text frames in InDesign CS, CS2 or CS3.
There are three main functions: auto-stitch, quick stitch and auto-unstitch. It is highly recommended to assign some keyboard shortcuts to the TextStitch menu items if you intend to use these functions often (using Edit - Keyboard Shortcuts... ).
- Auto-Stitch
Auto-stitch will automatically thread all unthreaded text frames it finds in a logical order (roughly left-right, top-down, page order). It will ignore non-empty text frames, or frames that have already been threaded. When frames are positioned in irregular positions, itll try to guess a logical order.
This function can be performed either on the current spread, or throughout the complete document; there is a configuration dialog under the API - Text Stitch - Configure... menu item which allows you to choose between these two options.
- Quick Stitch
The second function, quick stitch, allows you to stitch multiple text frames together with just a single click per frame.
- Auto-Unstitch
Auto-unstitch, the third function, will break all text threads on the current spread or in the current document - all stories will bunch up in the first frame of each story thread. Be careful with this as it will also remove all threads you might have assigned manually.