A message from a software maker that aims to make the nasty software pirates feel bad for cracking their code. Wait, do pirates actually feel shame?

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TECH BUZZ: Bloggers and tech writers reveal the programs they use. I’m a big fan of: Firefox, Adium, TextPad, Google Reader and Gmail (which I run through Fluid) and Gimp for my sad little Photoshop moments. What do you use?

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The Best Links:

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

TECH BUZZ: 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. You can pledge to download here , or just wait until it’s out and then download it; the official date will be released soon.

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The Best Links:

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

TECH BUZZ: The Gray Lady is reportedly working on the first newspaper API. Aron Pilhofer, the paper’s editor of interactive news, says the goal is to “make the NYT programmable. Everything we produce should be organized data.”

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The Best Links:

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

Tilt your iPhone and the world tilts with you. This demo of virtual Earth software from Earthscape offers many of the same features as Google Earth, with the bonus of being able to tilt and rotate the phone to change perspective as you navigate.

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The Best Links:

1. Coolest Things I Saw at Where 2.0 2008

TECH BUZZ: A trend in interface design towards simplicity. It’s not just text editing : More and more software is being release to make using the computer just at wee bit less overwhelming and a tad more zen.

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The Best Links:

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

TECH BUZZ: Like Howard Beale in Network , many longtime Microsoft Word users are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore. So they’re abandoning Word in droves, turning instead to Google Docs and other more elegant, intuitive, user-friendly apps such as Scrivener , WriteRoom , and Buzzword for all their word-processing needs.

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The Best Links:

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