If you are like many people when you read the following term, your eyes will glaze over and you'll get very sleepy. The term is text editor. OK....wake up, there is something for everyone here. It is often assumed that text editors are only for the true geeks of the world and unless you write code or do server admintration, you have no need for these silly applications.
I'm here to tell you a different story about text editors, specifically TextWrangler by Bare Bones Software. In all honesty, yes text editors are great tools for geeks and they do come in really handy when we write code or administer servers. However, they can be a really handy tool at times.
What happens when you try to open a Word document and it's corrupted. Word won't open it and you don't have a backup. You can also open TextWrangler and then open your Word document. Rather than the gibberish that had appeared when you tried to open your word document, you'll likely see the text of your document. the formatting will be gone, but the text will be there, and you can copy and paste it into a new Word document and reformat the content. That alone makes having this free tool worthy of the small amount of space it takes up on your hard drive.
