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Bloggers and tech writers reveal the programs they use.

The Best Links:

1. The 18 Things You Need for Your Computer
2. The J-Walk Blog: Software I Use

A new version of Firefox is coming soon, and they’re hoping to set a Guinness Record for the most downloads in a single day.

The Best Links:

1. They Made It: Over 5 Million Downloads
2. Spread Firefox FAQ
3. Sign Up, Download, Get a Customized Certificate
4. Download Day 2008

The Gray Lady is reportedly working on the first newspaper API.

The Best Links:

1. Not As Revolutionary As It Sounds
2. A Lot of Different Areas This Could Go Into
3. Earlier: New York Times Facebook App
4. API Itself Will Be Done “Within a Matter of Weeks”
5. New York Times API - A Programmable Paper?

Tilt your iPhone and the world tilts with you.

A trend in interface design towards simplicity.

The Best Links:

1. Trying to Increase Productivity by Reducing Technology
2. Writer.App Will Even Block Your Access To The Internetz
3. Spirited Away, It Makes Unused Disappear
4. Apple’s “Spaces”
5. Screw Microsoft Word - Featured on BuzzFeed
6. The Burgeoning Market For Simple Ware
7. “In search of the distraction-free computer desktop.”

Like Howard Beale in Network , many longtime Microsoft Word users are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore.

The Best Links:

1. In Search of a Distraction-Free Computer Desktop
2. Buzzword Preview
3. Scrivener: Outline. Edit. Storyboard. Write.
4. WriteRoom: Distraction-Free Writing
5. Microsoft Word Has Passed Away. Time of Death: 12:23 AM
6. What’s the Word On Ditching Word?
7. Ditching MS Word for Text Editors
8. Write Here, Write Now, Write Anywhere: 13 Free Web-Based Word Processors
9. Word Processing for Mac
10. Goodbye, Cruel Word
11. An Interface of One’s Own