Just thought members might be interested in checking out Bean an interesting little freeware word processor. It is not nor is it intended to be a replacement for any full featured application like Microsoft Word or OpenOffice. It is however a compact, very capable, easy to use editor that can probably handle the bulk of your typical word processing needs. And it’s free.

Straight from its author, here are a few reasons you might want to use Bean:

• Bean is lean, fast, and uncluttered.
• If you get depressed at the thought of firing up MS Word or OpenOffice, try Bean.
• If you use Text Edit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean.
• If you desire a simple, beautiful writing environment, try Bean.

And for the true control freaks, you can even download the source code and build your own version of Bean if you wish.

And did I mention that it’s free?