Bean 2.1.0 is Out

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Bean is a nice, lightweight word processor - somewhere between Pages and Word on one end and TextEdit on the other. It's got the ability to read and write Word docs, and it's pretty good about the rendering. It's fast to start and load, and is just the right tool for those in between jobs.

Well... today I noticed that they had finally released Bean 2.1.0 - a major step up from 1.3.3, which was the last stable release. The release notes are significant as they have changed a ton of things in this release, and I'm only just now starting to dig into all the features. What I'm hoping is that they didn't loose the target audience - that middle-ground of word processing. More than TextEdit with Word compatibility, but not as heavy and feature-laden as Pages.

We'll see as time goes on.