The future and what to do about it.

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• Vista Revisited The new version of Microsoft Windows is a lot like the old one. But better.
  Farhad Manjoo Dec. 31, 2008
  
• Time for a Tablet What the "netbook" craze tells us about the future of laptops.
  Farhad Manjoo Dec. 30, 2008
  
• The Frugal Life The best Web sites to help you scrimp through the recession.
  Farhad Manjoo Dec. 26, 2008
  
• How To Blog Advice from Arianna Huffington, Om Malik, and more of the Web's best pundits.
  Farhad Manjoo Dec. 18, 2008
  
• Thanks for the Toilet Paper, My Robot Friends The TV show How It's Made shines a light on our mechanized culture.
  Farhad Manjoo Dec. 16, 2008
  
• The Web May Be Hazardous to Your Health How to figure out what's ailing you without becoming a cyberchondriac.
  Farhad Manjoo Dec. 12, 2008
  
• The Shopper's Revenge How Amazon's cell phone app can save you money at Best Buy, Target, and Wal-Mart.
  Farhad Manjoo Dec. 8, 2008
  
• Google Wants My Help Ranking Pages? The search giant's foray into user feedback.
  Farhad Manjoo Dec. 5, 2008
  
• The Dog Ate My Hard Drive With lots of easy options, there's no excuse for not backing up your data. Here are the best ways to do it.
  Farhad Manjoo Dec. 2, 2008
  
• Six Black Friday Bargains To Avoid Beware of the Blu-ray player and the digital picture frame!
  Farhad Manjoo Nov. 26, 2008
  
• Kill Your Telephone A step-by-step guide to Skype, the cheapest and easiest way to make a phone call.
  Farhad Manjoo Nov. 24, 2008
  
• 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