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Technology 2009:
The future and what to do about it.
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- Fix Your Terrible, Insecure Passwords in Five Minutes A foolproof technique to secure your online accounts before holiday shopping season.
Nov. 12, 2009 - Apocalypse Then How our response to Y2K reveals what we'll do about global warming and swine flu.
Nov. 11, 2009 - How To Charge Your Laptop Four essential tips for extending the battery life of your computer, cell phone, and every other gadget.
Oct. 30, 2009 - How GeoCities Invented the Internet A garish collection of home pages paved the way for blogging, social networks, and the rest of Web 2.0.
Oct. 27, 2009 - Get Windows 7 Microsoft's latest release is the best operating system on the market.
Oct. 22, 2009 - That Tune, Named How does the music-identifying app Shazam work its magic?
Oct. 19, 2009 - Let's Kill Bluetooth Will a new Wi-Fi technology allow us to connect our devices more easily?
Oct. 16, 2009 - It's Just Fancy Talk The Google Wave chatting tool is too complicated for its own good.
Oct. 13, 2009 - I Heart the New FCC Chairman Thank Julius Genachowski for giving us a better mobile Internet.
Oct. 9, 2009 - The iPhone Is Not an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Why AT&T should dump unlimited data plans.
Oct. 6, 2009 - Free iTunes! Apple's hypocritical move to block competitors from accessing its software.
Sept. 28, 2009 - Chrome for Clunkers Google's ingenious plan to spruce up outdated versions of Internet Explorer.
Sept. 24, 2009 - The Netflix Prize Was Brilliant Google and Microsoft should steal the idea.
Sept. 22, 2009 - How To Fix Craigslist Better feedback, better search, and more openness.
Sept. 17, 2009 - Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Startup Founders America can't be the world's tech leader without immigration reform.
Sept. 14, 2009 - The iPod Is Dead Why the days of the dedicated music player have come and gone.
Sept. 10, 2009 - Down With Megahertz! A better way to market computers: Say what they can actually do.
Sept. 9, 2009 - So Gmail Was Down. Get Over It. Google's e-mail service works 99.9 percent of time. Why do we freak out during the other 0.1 percent?
Sept. 3, 2009 - Tweeting Avengers Does venting consumer outrage on Twitter actually work?
Sept. 1, 2009 - How To Beat the Kindle Study everything the iPod's rivals did. Then do the exact opposite.
Aug. 27, 2009 - Unchain the Office Computers! Why corporate IT should let us browse any way we want.
Aug. 25, 2009 - Can the Google Phone Be Saved? There's still a chance to knock the iPhone from its perch. Here's how.
Aug. 20, 2009 - To Live, Twitter Must Die Microblogging has become too important for one company to rule the field.
Aug. 13, 2009 - The Great iPhone Lockdown Should the FCC force Apple to sell Google's apps?
Aug. 5, 2009 - Let's Fix Facebook Four ways to redesign one of the world's most-annoying, least-intuitive Web sites.
July 30, 2009 - The Case Against the Case Against Google The Department of Justice should take a hint from the Microsoft suit: no more antitrust actions against tech companies.
July 28, 2009 - Fix Your Terrible, Insecure Passwords in Five Minutes A foolproof technique to secure your computer, e-mail, and bank account.
July 24, 2009 - Why 2024 Will Be Like Nineteen Eighty-Four How Amazon's remote deletion of e-books from the Kindle paves the way for book-banning's digital future.
July 20, 2009 - The World's Greatest Music Service Spotify streams every song you'd ever want to hear for free—and it's not for American ears.
July 16, 2009 - Down With Verdana! Typography on the Web is basic and dull. A startup called Typekit will fix it.
July 13, 2009 - Logo on Steroids The new video game Kodu will teach you (or your kid) about programming. It's also actually fun.
July 10, 2009 - The Google OS Is Doomed Five reasons why the new Chrome operating system is a bad idea.
July 9, 2009 - www.thosenewdomainnames
.areforsuckers Soon you'll be able to buy any top-level domain you want: .yourname, .america, .whatever. Don't do it.
July 7, 2009 - Hipsters, Tempura Burgers, and Pets Who Want To Kill Themselves The allure of crowd-sourced, single-topic blogs.
July 2, 2009 - The Fantastic Firefox Why Mozilla's new browser augurs great things for the Web.
June 29, 2009 - The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized How the Internet helps Iran silence activists.
June 25, 2009 - Shorten This! Do we really need link-shortening services like Bit.ly?
June 23, 2009 - The Newspaper Isn't Dead Yet Why newsprint still beats the Kindle.
June 18, 2009 - May I Smash Open Your New iPhone, Please? The strange allure of unboxing and tearing apart new gadgets.
June 17, 2009 - Digital TV Is Here. Please Remain Calm! Why the DTV transition will give you better, cheaper television.
June 11, 2009 - You Can Live Without Apple's New iPhone But it's getting harder to live without the App Store.
June 9, 2009 - I, for One, Welcome Our New Android Overlords Google's mobile operating system is jumping to the PC. Hallelujah!
June 5, 2009 - About a Bing Beware Google: Microsoft's new search engine isn't half-bad.
June 2, 2009 - Don't Buy It Now What to avoid on eBay—and what's still worth shopping for on the venerable auction site.
May 28, 2009 - Get Mine Could a personalized magazine help save print media?
May 26, 2009 - They're Fast, They're Cheap, and I'm Out of Control How I got addicted to playing games on my iPhone.
May 22, 2009 - Like Google, Only Much, Much Worse Wolfram Alpha is yet another pretender to the search giant's throne.
May 18, 2009 - Blocked Ads, Clean Conscience Firefox's ad-removal tool is its most popular add-on. Now its creator wants to let you use it ethically.
May 14, 2009 - Chrome Wasn't Built in a Day Google launches its first-ever TV ad campaign to get you to try its browser.
May 13, 2009 - You Have No New Messages—Ever It's time voice mail threw in the towel.
May 8, 2009 - Your Search Returned 12 Million Books Google's goal of a universal online library would be great for humanity. It can still be great for authors and publishers, too.
May 6, 2009 - Kill Your RSS Reader And use my amazing system for browsing the Web.
May 1, 2009 - Google's Trojan Horse Did the search giant just sneakily launch a Facebook killer?
April 30, 2009 - My Mythical Online Rental Service for Movies Why Hollywood is so slow to catch up on offering all of its movies and shows online.
April 17, 2009 - Do You Think Bandwidth Grows on Trees? User-generated content may have changed the Internet, but sites like YouTube are suffocating under the costs of storing it.
April 14, 2009 - Do I Really Have To Join Twitter? What to do if you're just not that into microblogging but don't want to be left behind.
April 10, 2009 - YouTube for Artistes The Web video site Vimeo goes after an audience tired of the poorly lit basement aesthetic.
April 7, 2009 - The Poor Man's Mac Microsoft wants you to buy PCs because they're cheaper than Apple products, not because they're better machines.
April 2, 2009 - The Worm That Ate the Web The latest version of Conficker isn't the first bot to plague the Internet, but it may be the smartest and most sophisticated. And it starts phoning home Wednesday.
March 30, 2009 - Stop Whining About Facebook's Redesign So you hate the site's new look. Simmer down—you'll like it soon enough.
March 23, 2009 - I Can Has Internet Millions The company behind lolcats and Failblog tries to turn memes into money.
March 20, 2009 - How To Find a Job Online Forget Monster. Try Facebook.
March 17, 2009 - Bono Has a BlackBerry? The weird marriage between rock's biggest band and the world's dorkiest phone.
March 12, 2009 - Cash for Speed Programs that offer to boost your computer's performance are mostly bogus.
March 9, 2009 - What the Heck Is Twitter? It's not a Google killer, and it's not a Facebook killer.
March 6, 2009 - Read Me a Story, Mr. Roboto Why computer voices still don't sound human.
March 3, 2009 - Fear the Kindle Amazon's amazing e-book reader is bad news for the publishing industry.
Feb. 26, 2009 - Jurassic Web The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today.
Feb. 24, 2009 - How To Go to Harvard for Free The joys of Academic Earth's online video lectures.
Feb. 19, 2009 - In Search of Microsoft Geniuses Why the software giant should copy the Apple Store.
Feb. 17, 2009 - Satellite Diss Sirius XM bet on a losing technology. Here's how the company can save itself.
Feb. 12, 2009 - Tech for America Should Obama really use stimulus money to invest in broadband and online medical records?
Feb. 9, 2009 - Shop Till Everyone Else Drops How Amazon.com is thriving in a horrendous retail climate.
Feb. 5, 2009 - I Can Digg It Why MrBabyMan is the king of all social media.
Feb. 3, 2009 - The Best E-Mail Program Ever How Gmail destroyed Outlook.
Jan. 29, 2009 - All I Wanna Do Is Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Microsoft's Photosynth, the best thing to happen to photography since the digital camera.
Jan. 27, 2009 - I Do Solemnly Swear That I Will Blog Regularly Touring the new Whitehouse.gov.
Jan. 20, 2009 - Forget Yahoo—Buy Palm Why Microsoft would be foolish to get into the Web ad business.
Jan. 20, 2009 - You Have No Friends Everyone else is on Facebook. Why aren't you?
Jan. 14, 2009 - DRM Isn't Dead Despite the revamped iTunes, copy-protection schemes are here to stay.
Jan. 12, 2009 - I Don't Want My Web TV Why Yahoo's plan to merge the Internet and television isn't the future of home entertainment.
Jan. 9, 2009 - Apple Without Its Core What will the company be like in Steve Jobs' absence?
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