![Most Popular How-To Features of 2009 [Best Of 2009]](http://hy.ae/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/dc981ee94bhow-to.jpg-200x114-191x114.jpg)
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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Firefox: 1,000,000,000 Downloads
As we reported yesterday, Firefox was on track to pass one billion downloads at some point on Friday. That point is now, as the counter on the Spread Firefox site as well as the Firefox Counter Twitter account are sporting numbers in the 10 digits. Mozilla plans to launch the website onebillionplusyou.com on Monday, but for now, has provided a number of graphics to mark the event. Of course, more important than total downloads is the actual percentage of active web users that use the...
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Firefox 3.7 Theme Makes Your Browser Look Awesome [Downloads]
Windows only: Mozilla released their version 3.7 theme mockups only a few days ago, but you don’t have to wait for the 3.7 release to enjoy them—a motivated user already created a lookalike theme that you can install now. (Click the image above for a closer look.) Installing this theme isn’t quite as simple as you are probably used to—you’ll need to first enable the All-Glass Firefox extension for the Aero effects, the Personal Menu extension to hide the menubar and add...
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First Look: Firefox 3.7’s New Design
It hasn’t even been a month since Firefox 3.5 was released to the masses, but Mozilla is already hard at work on Firefox 3.7. We gave you a sneak peek at what features are coming in 2010, but now we know what Firefox 3.7 may look like when it’s released. Mozilla is known for constantly gathering feedback from its users to improve Firefox – this is why it offers multiple Firefox release candidates for download before launching the final version. So the company has turned to the web...
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Google Calendar Gadgets Appearing
Andrew Pariser emails in a surprise finding in Google Calendar (if by any chance you’re able to reproduce this – I’m not – please comment): Opened up gcal today, to find an interesting new “Gadgets” link under the google logo. Clicking it opens a right side pane that introduces a gadgets menu and a selection of gadgets to choose from: Add Tasks Add Googler Search Add Jump to Date Add Next Meetings Add Time Zones Add Where Are My Friends? I also have a nice “INTERNAL ONLY”...
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