The future and what to do about it.

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• Second Bite at the Apple What the Google phone stole from the iPhone.
  Farhad Manjoo Nov. 17, 2008
  
• Seven More Things You Need for Your Computer Reader suggestions for software that you absolutely need to have.
  Farhad Manjoo Nov. 13, 2008
  
• You Are Now Friends With Barack Obama Will the White House Web site work as a social network?
  Farhad Manjoo Nov. 10, 2008
  
• No More Palin, No More Polls How to kill time on the Web now that the election's over.
  Farhad Manjoo Nov. 5, 2008
  
• A Radical Business Plan for Facebook Charge people.
  Farhad Manjoo Oct. 31, 2008
  
• Texts You Can Believe In Forget robo-calls—Obama's text messages are this campaign's secret weapon.
  Farhad Manjoo Oct. 27, 2008
  
• Linux Is Making Me Insane Grappling with Ubuntu, the free, open-source operating system.
  Farhad Manjoo Oct. 23, 2008
  
• The 18 Things You Need for Your Computer My favorite programs and Web services.
  Farhad Manjoo Oct. 16, 2008
  
• The Daily Beast's Burden Can Tina Brown show me everything that's great on the Web today?
  Farhad Manjoo Oct. 9, 2008
  
• Google Plays Monopoly Why the search company's ad deal with Yahoo is bad for the Web.
  Farhad Manjoo Oct. 6, 2008
  
• Everything Means Nothing to Me MySpace Music lets you listen to pretty much every song ever recorded, and it still sucks.
  Farhad Manjoo Oct. 2, 2008
  
• I'm a PC, and I'm Worried About My Image Microsoft's $300 million campaign to prove Windows isn't lame.
  Farhad Manjoo Sept. 29, 2008
  
• The Cell Phone Wars Apple's iPhone is closed. Google's G1 is open. Which is better?
  Farhad Manjoo Sept. 25, 2008
  
• Chuck Knol Why Google's online encyclopedia will never be as good as Wikipedia.
  Farhad Manjoo Sept. 22, 2008
  
• Hacking Sarah Palin Why it's not a good idea for politicians to use personal e-mail accounts.
  Farhad Manjoo Sept. 17, 2008
  
• Sundance for Silicon Valley The TechCrunch50 conference generates a lot fewer than 50 great ideas.
  Farhad Manjoo Sept. 15, 2008
  
• Bring on the Browser Wars! Why I'm overjoyed about Google Chrome.
  Farhad Manjoo Sept. 4, 2008
  
• Hey, Robot Ref! Are You Blind? Should the sports world replace human umpires with computers?
  Farhad Manjoo Sept. 2, 2008
  
• How To Get an Unbelievable, Amazing, Fantastic, Thrilling Deal on New Glasses Buy them online.
  Farhad Manjoo Aug. 27, 2008
  
• Is Something Rotten at Apple? E-mail problems, flaky iPhones, and broken Macs. What's Steve Jobs to do?
  Farhad Manjoo Aug. 25, 2008
  
• Take That, Stupid Printer! How to fight back against the lying, infuriating, evil ink-and-toner cabal.
  Farhad Manjoo Aug. 21, 2008
  
• For Sale: Your Browser History Behavioral ad targeting, Web companies' favorite new way to invade your privacy.
  Farhad Manjoo Aug. 19, 2008
  
• An Army of Ones and Zeroes How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar.
  Evgeny  Morozov Aug. 14, 2008
  
• The Google Black Hole Sergey and Larry just bought my company. Uh oh.
  Farhad Manjoo Aug. 13, 2008
  
• The Death of Planned Obsolescence Why today's gadgets keep getting better. (At least until the battery dies.)
  Farhad Manjoo Aug. 11, 2008
  
• The Anthrax Truth Movement The Web searches for holes in the FBI's latest lone-gunman theory.
  Farhad Manjoo Aug. 7, 2008
  
• Wandering Through the Desert With Windows Microsoft's strange, passive-aggressive "Mojave Experiment."
  Farhad Manjoo Aug. 4, 2008
  
• Turn Here, Trust Me Dash's amazing new GPS gizmo guides you around traffic.
  Farhad Manjoo July 31, 2008
  
• Even Lamer Than Second Life Google Lively, yet another pointless virtual world.
  Farhad Manjoo July 28, 2008
  
• Pick a Lock, Any Lock YouTube makes it easy to learn the finer points of breaking and entering—and locksmiths aren't happy.
  Farhad Manjoo July 23, 2008
  
• Things Are Not What They Stream Have corporate-sponsored Internet pranks gone too far?
  Farhad Manjoo July 21, 2008
  
• The iPhone Makeover Will third-party programs push Apple's handheld over the top?
  Farhad Manjoo July 16, 2008
  
• Can I Resist the iPhone 3G? An Apple obsessive confronts the company's shiny new bauble.
  Reihan Salam July 14, 2008
  
• Long Tails and Big Heads Why Chris Anderson's theory of the digital world might be all wrong.
  Farhad Manjoo July 13, 2008
  
• Tag, You're It Embracing the Internet might salvage the SEC chairman's legacy.
  Chadwick Matlin June 27, 2008
  
• Victoria's Circuit Harnessing the untapped power of breast motion.
  Adrienne So June 23, 2008
  
• Speak English, Stupid Computer! Finally, a search engine that understands you. But don't ditch Google yet.
  Chris Wilson June 19, 2008
  
• Does Google Hate America? The search giant rankles the right by declining to commemorate certain holidays.
  Chris Thompson June 13, 2008
  
• iSurrender Apple's new iPhone augurs the inevitable return of the Bell telephone monopoly.
  Tim Wu June 10, 2008
  
• YouType The strange allure of making your own fonts.
  Jason Fagone June 6, 2008
  
• Can Wal-Mart Save Local Newspapers? Craigslist, take note: It takes one monolithic villain to beat another.
  Chadwick Matlin June 3, 2008
  
• Is Google Draining or Retaining? Reports of an exodus of talent from the company have been greatly exaggerated.
  Chris Thompson June 2, 2008
  
• Meet Your New Personal Trainer Can Wii Fit get your sorry, lazy ass in shape?
  Seth Stevenson May 30, 2008
  
• The State of the Google First-quarter revenues strong; economic apocalypse averted.
  Chris Wilson April 18, 2008
  
• Cloudy Judgment Web-based applications are all well and good, but there's still no beating the desktop computer.
  Paul Boutin April 3, 2008
  
• Have People Stopped Clicking on Google Ads? Or did a Web-traffic firm get the numbers wrong?
  Chris Wilson March 10, 2008
  
• I'm the Idiot Who Bought an HD-DVD Player A casualty of the format war tells all.
  Josh Levin Feb. 28, 2008
  
• Good Guys Don't Make Billions Web companies discover the perils of putting privacy before profits.
  Reihan Salam Feb. 26, 2008
  
• The Wisdom of the Chaperones Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy.
  Chris Wilson Feb. 22, 2008
  
• How To Be a Better Browser Can a new filtering program cure the Web's information overload?
  Paul Boutin Feb. 20, 2008
  
• Get Off of My Cloud Why Microsoft's play for Yahoo! isn't about search.
  Chris Wilson Feb. 1, 2008
  
• In What City Did You Honeymoon? And other monstrously stupid bank security questions.
  Josh Levin Jan. 29, 2008
  
• Pirates of Sundance Forget Sony Classics. Try getting your film picked up by online movie pirates.
  Tim Wu Jan. 28, 2008
  
• The Tao of Screen In search of the distraction-free desktop.
  Jeffrey MacIntyre Jan. 24, 2008