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This week's New York Times column

For Purists, a Cut Above in Movies

So Mrs. Hollywood comes home one day to find her husband bound and gagged, with a hole shot through his foot. “Honey!” she screams, racing to help him. “Who did this to you?”

Mr. Hollywood looks up and says, “I did.”

Granted, that joke isn’t ha-ha funny. All right, it’s not funny at all... more

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This week's email column

Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User

Last week, I wrote an entry on my blog that began like this: "One of these days, I'm going to write a book called, 'The Basics.' It's going to be a compendium of the essential tech bits that you just assume everyone knows--but you're wrong.

(I'll never forget watching a book editor at a publishing house painstakingly drag across a word in a word processor... more

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This week's video

Movie Downloads: The Bailout Plan

David compares the value of movie download options.

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Special columns

Looking Beyond Megapixels

December 6, 2007

You may have your holiday traditions: caroling, stockings, candles, whatever. But here at The New York Times Institute of Gadgetology, we have a tradition of our own. Every December since 2001, we’ve asked: “How much digital camera can you get for $300?”... more

Photo Sharing Even the Folks Can Handle

Receptiveness to new technologies often seems related to age. For example, more 13-year-olds than 63-year-olds understand phrases like “Waz ^?” and “N2MH.” (In case you’re over 13, those expressions are cellphonese for... more

Pogue’s Picks

I don't know how the other Times columnists keep up with all their reader e-mail, but I'll tell you how I handle mine: with great difficulty. I try to answer pretty much all of it... more