A couple of weeks ago, Hanx Writer, a typewriter app from movie star Tom Hanks, shot to the top of the Apple App Store. I guess there must be something in the air, because it’s not the only ...

Recorded on August 13, 2014. iPad applications typically have an edge when it comes to adapting physical experiences over to software. Drawing and painting simulations being the most successful.

I grew up on a manual typewriter, the same one my mom used to write articles for Life Magazine in the ’50s and ’60s. It was a small portable in a beat-up canvas case, and you had to hit the keys hard.

The Oscar winner today launched the app Hanx Writes, which aims to introduce the style of smashing away on an old typewriter to the tablet generation. While Kim Kardashian has made millions out of a ...

Welcome to the technological frontier of 2014: Dueling typewriter apps for the iPad. The upstart rival, Typing Writer, was launched in July by The Rumpus. The literary website’s founder, Stephen ...

Academy Award winner Tom Hanks has taken on a new leading role as an iPad app developer. His Hanx Writer app-- which recently hit the top of the charts as the most downloaded app in iTunes -- combines ...