This is my first time using this text program that employs the same programming of the TextEdit program that comes with the Mac. It is called Bean, and it was a free download. Why would I not give it a whirl. I feel a little bit guilty because I like the TextEdit program so much. I bought my first computer to use to write about stuff that interests me. The first word processing programs I used were simple and easy. The Word program was easy to use and get around in, but eventually it became so bloated with features I never used or wanted that I began to look for something more like the first word processor programs.
My youngest brother got me to using computers by bringing a TRS-80 computer to my house, and practically forcing me to give it a shot. This computer has the dot matrix printer my brother brought with it. He had bought a used Mac like the ones he had used in a Community College class on computers. That’s why the TRS-80 became available.
He showed me how to use the word processing program and how to highlight and delete my mistakes, and generally how to write what I had to say, then edit it until I was satisfied with the result before I printed what I wrote out. I was absolutely delighted with that one feature. I am is a terrible typist. I made a lot of mistakes using a regular typewriter, and I wasted a lot of time and effort redoing the typed pages I made errors on. Being able to make sure everything was right before I printed convinced me I needed to buy my own computer. I bought the Mac Classic that had one of the first hard drives built into it.
I switched over to using Windows after the internet came along. One of the biggest reasons was that I could get more bang for my buck, and there was a lot more choice when it came to the available software. My faithful ol’ Mac Classic couldn’t be expanded enough to go online with it. I didn’t like the WordPad program that came with Windows. I began to download and use the word editing programs that programmers use to type in code. They weren’t full-fledged word processors, and they weren’t designed to be, but they were better than WordPad and some of them came with spellcheckers.
A year or two ago I switched back to a Mac for the same reason I left Macs in the first place. To be able to operate on the internet securely. Windows was fine for a while, but the security problems I experienced with it drove me nuts. My brother kept telling me he didn’t use and virus programs or malware programs on his Macs, and convinced me to switch back. That’s how I found out that the text editing program that came with the Mac Operating System was a lot like the first, easy to use word processing programs I started out on. I just loved TextEdit, and now, I have betrayed it by testing out Bean. I’ll probably go straight to hell for this.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
