Software

∞ Seizing a copyright troll's bank account

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Nate Anderson for Ars Technica: Wayne Hoehn beat Righthaven so badly that the Las Vegas-based copyright troll lost its copyright infringement case on fair use grounds—and had to pay Hoehn’s lawyers at the Randazza Legal Group $34,045.50 in attorney’s fees. … Continued

∞ Google Wallet and near field communication

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In May we announced Google Wallet—an app that makes your phone your wallet—with Citi, MasterCard, Sprint and First Data. With Google Wallet, you can tap, pay and save using your phone and near field communication (NFC). I’m really looking forward … Continued

∞ [Sponsor] Pixelmator

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Many thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed. Pixelmator is the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing app for Mac OS X that has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images. With tons … Continued

∞ A few more changes to The Loop

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On September 1 we relaunched The Loop with one of the biggest design changes in the site’s two-year history. Overall, the reception to the new design has been great, but there have been a few small issues that needed to … Continued

∞ Netflix rebrands DVD service Qwikster

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Netflix will soon call its DVD mailing service Qwikster and will branch out to video game rentals. The revelation comes from Reed Hastings, the service’s decidedly more contrite co-founder and CEO, who sent out an e-mail to subscribers entitled “An Explanation … Continued

∞ MG Siegler on the TechCrunch brouhaha

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MG: That’s why Paul’s post is dangerous. He’s shining the spotlight on something, but he’s missing the mark. There is exactly one person to blame for all of this — and her name is not Erick.

∞ Pixelmator

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I would like to thank Pixelmator for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed. Pixelmator is the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing app for Mac OS X that has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images. … Continued

∞ Symbol usage in Illustrator CS5

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Smashing Magazine: Illustrator makes it easy to use symbols multiple times within a document as well. With the Symbols tools, you can add and alter several symbols at once. And in CS5, you can now change the settings for a … Continued

∞ Netflix cuts subscriber guidance by 1 million

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Peter Kafka: Netflix, which instituted a price hike earlier this fall, says the higher costs are turning off more customers than it expected. The video rental company has cut its third quarter U.S. subscriber projections from 25 million subscribers to … Continued

∞ Arrington rips on TechCrunch editor Schonfeld

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Arrington took issue with a story and posted in the TechCrunch forums: Erick, I’m still an AOL employee through tomorrow (15th). Also, as you know I had significant input into this list of finalists and spoke to Heather [Techcrunch CEO] … Continued

∞ iWeb to WordPress converter

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Now you can quickly and easily convert your iWeb blog to a WordPress blog. Simply export your iWeb website to a Local folder and import it into iWeb to WordPress. In just minutes you will get all of your blog … Continued

∞ VMware Fusion 4 adds more than 90 new features

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VMware on Wednesday released Fusion 4, the company’s virtualization software, allowing users to run other operating systems on their Macs. Fusion 4 is a 64-bit Cocoa application, built with Apple’s new OS X Lion in mind. You can add Windows … Continued

∞ Pixelmator [Sponsor]

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Many thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed. Pixelmator is the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing app for Mac OS X that has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images. With tons … Continued

∞ Dropping 'the' when describing products

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Geoffrey A. Fowler And Yukari Iwatani Kane for WSJ: Nintendo Co.’s website shows gamers “what Wii is all about.” As far back as 1984, Apple Inc. said in a commercial that it would “introduce Macintosh.” Today, an Apple video enthuses: … Continued

∞ Adobe Creative Developer Tour 2011

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The Adobe Creative Suite provides many opportunities for partners to provide not only software and solutions based on Adobe technology but also consulting, contract development and integration services. The key themes for the Creative Developer Event are: Extensibility – Efficiently … Continued

∞ Arq backup

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Arq backs up the critical files on your Mac to the Internet. Your backups are stored at Amazon S3 (“Simple Storage Service”), the gold standard of reliable online storage in the industry, backed by Amazon.com, a large stable company. Backups … Continued

∞ Dave Caolo reviews Alfred

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I’ve been using Alfred for many months. On the surface it’s an app launcher, and that’s how I use it most of the time. After assigning a hotkey combination (I chose Command-Space), its main window is only a tap away. … Continued

∞ MacUpdate software bundle: 11 Mac apps for $50

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MacUpdate on Wednesday kicked off its annual software bundle deal. This year they are offering 11 Mac apps for $49.99 — the apps purchased separately would cost $487. Apps in this year’s bundle include Toast 11 Titanium, Data Rescue 3 … Continued