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Most Popular How-To Features of 2009 [Best Of 2009]
We cover a lot of tips every day on Lifehacker, but we get our greatest pleasure from putting together in-depth, step-by-step guides. From Windows 7 to Hackintoshes and beyond, here’s a look back at our most popular how-to features of ’09. How to Do Everything with Windows 7 Windows 7 was a huge part of 2009, and the Lifehacker crowd was eager to try it out early on—but not necessarily ready to ditch XP or Vista outright to do so. This guide got you up and running with a Windows...
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Facebook Dealing With a Click Fraud and Data Access Lawsuit
It’s a saga we’re all familiar with by now: create a pretty awesome web service, start a trend, become a media sweetheart, make lots of money (VC or acquisition), get slapped with a lawsuit. Or two. Or fifty billion. Facebook added two more lawsuits to its heap recently: a countersuit from Power.com and a click fraud proceeding. Facebook filed suit against Power.com in December. Facebook claimed the one-stop social-media aggregator was infringing upon their copyright, violating their TOS...
Read MoreIntroducing the Google Chrome OS
It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser . Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. Here is the original: Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Read MoreGoogle v. Facebook? What We Learn from Twitter.
Last week I wrote a post in which I opined a bit about Facebook search. In it I wrote: Facebook is way more than its newsfeed, and its search play is key to proving that value, and extending it….No doubt building Facebook search today is akin to building Google ten years ago – bigger, most likely, in terms of data, algorithmic, and platform challenges. If only I had waited a few days, I could have pointed to Fred’s piece in Wired, out this week. He profiles the ongoing feud...
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