One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. From Henry James to Jack Kerouac, the ...

WASHINGTON — With movie hits including “Saving Private Ryan,” “A League of Their Own,” and “That Thing You Do!,” Tom Hanks has demonstrated a pretty good knack for recreating periods of history that ...

Typewriter lover and actor Tom Hanks has released an iPad app that simulates typing on a type writer. The app, called Hanx Writer is free, and is great for basic writing. The best feature of Hanx ...

LOWELL — Think the typewriter is dead? Filmmakers Chris Lockett and Gary Nicholson say think again. From fan clubs and collectors to retro bloggers called typecasters, the sound of pings, dings and ...

My Cult of Mac colleague Killian is obsessed with the actor Tom Hanks to an almost worrying degree. At any other time of year this would seem irrelevant, were today not the occasion upon which Hanx ...

No, this doesn’t have anything to do with photography but the writer in us thinks it’s pretty neat. Called Noisy Typer, it’s a free OS X app that makes your computer simulate the clickety-clack sound ...