Hanx Writer is an iPad app that simulates the feel of writing on old typewriters: has the key sound and that click when it reaches the end of a line. As its name turns out to unravel, was designed by Tom Hanks and perhaps why, among other applications with the same functionality, this has gotten Monday the first of the most sold in the iTunes AppStore for iPad.
“With Hanx Writer, you will hear the rhythm of their work to the sound of a Shook Shook or a -fitt fitt ,” writes Tom Hanks in a statement sent the press on August 14 to submit the free application launched that day.
In the description of the application in the AppStore, the winner of two Oscars explains how always liked the feel of a typewriter and how it has not changed with the fastest and quietest computers. “In late 1970 I bought a typewriter – portable enough to travel the world, strong enough to survive the typing of my fingers for decades,” he writes, and goes on to say that since bought many more, “each with different designs, Each sound speeds and a mark on a permanent paper trail through the keys, hammers, tape, ink -.. a lighter version for the act of writing in stone “
In the sense of writing join amenities . the current computers, such as spell checker, or the ability to go back in the text “You can rest assured:.’s the delete to correct their mistakes Be bold and fearless,” writes the actor Text in the AppStore.
Stuart Westphal is the designer of the application that started from an idea of Tom Hanks. “Tom was the power that impressed me. wanted to capture that spirit for the application. Nostalgic, yes, but a tool that works well and is nice to use more than once. “
A free application shows a model on-screen typewriter with black keys and machine parts in silver machine, but there is still other two models, each at $ 2.99 (about € 2): Hanx 707 , a model closer to writing Vintage with the keys in green machines and Hanx Golden Touch , in white with gold letters.
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