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The ability to collaborate on a document is one of those features that it really would be nice to have built into an operating system. Many of you I’m sure will recall the frustration of group-work at uni, with several people working on the same project at a computer lab, and the frustration in regularly joining together and overlapping work. As deadlines loomed, more and more time was wasted dashing between machines with fragments on disks.

In SubEthaEdit (screenshot left), German firm The Coding Monkeys has a very refined solution for OSX, allowing users to edit the same text, together and in real-time, without restrictions or configuration. Allowing you to work on multiple documents at the same time, you can invite others from both bonjour and your list of internet contacts, and of course set permissions and send announcements. The applications for this collaboration are far ranging, from simple joint note-taking during skype calls, writing content together with your co-authors, or even writing code.