HogBay Software’s WriteRoom promises the ability to overcome the challenge of your digital life by providing distraction free writing and the simplicity of a typewriter. It have been called the ultimate spartan writing utopia by — Virginia Heffernan of the New York Times, and has forced many an author to reevaluate the productivity value of their own writing applications. Yet despite all of this extraordinary praise WriteRoom is neither a evolutionary nor revolutionary product. It is a retroactive idea packaged within an elegantly crafted Macintosh application. WriteRoom simply put, is full screen text editing, and carries the price fo $24.99.