The modern computer experience is amazing for distracting you from work; E-mail, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, Growl notifications, all popping up like friends at a party, dragging you away from the tasks you’re supposed to be concentrating on. All of this has lead to a new class of word processor—one such as Omm Writer Dana which eliminates features, stripping the experience down to its most basic features, and hiding the rest of your digital world away.

Having trouble getting further than, “It was a dark and stormy night?” Same here, mostly. Motivation and focus are my two biggest obstacles when it comes to completing writing projects. It’s quite easy for me to get started on a new novel or play, much more difficult to actually complete one. But there are programs out there to help, and in this column I’m going to pull together and detail many of these Mac and iPhone apps and resources.