Now that we’ve called a wrap on 2020, a year that maybe wasn’t the worst in history but sure felt like it, I want to take stock of what I accomplished over the prior 12 months. While the pandemic impacted everything, many aspects of my life marched along with minimal disruption. I still wrote movies. […]
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Highland gets a new Novel template
Although Highland 2 was originally developed for screenwriting, many novelists use it for books. In fact, I wrote all three Arlo Finch novels entirely in Highland. Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Wonder Boys and many other acclaimed novels, has been writing in Highland for years. Like […]
Highland 2 is very fast on the new Macs
Highland 2.9 runs natively on Apple’s speedy new M1 processor, the chip in its latest Macs. Naturally, we wanted to see how much faster it runs on the new hardware. The challenge is that Highland 2 is already very, very fast. It’s hard to find an operation that takes long enough to measure with a […]
Pretty much everything is on sale
Every fall, we put many of the products we make on sale. Typically, it lines up with Back to School or Labor Day, but the notions of “time” and “seasons” and “school” don’t seem to match the actual experience of 2020. Still: bargains! Through Sunday, September 13th all of the following are half off — […]