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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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VMWare Fusion 3 Makes Running Windows on Mac Almost Fun
As we pointed out yesterday, more and more Americans are buying Macs, but going to the iSide doesn’t always mean you can leave Windows behind. Since 2006, every Mac that Apple sells has also had the ability to run Windows using Boot Camp. However, for most users, the best way of using Windows on a Mac is using a virtualization program like VMWare Fusion, Parallels, or Virtual Box. These programs let you run Windows alongside Mac OS X all on the same machine. As a Mac user who often likes to...
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10,000 Hotmail Passwords Leaked Online [Email]
According to tech news site Neowin, an anonymous user posted usernames and passwords for over 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail accounts to web site PasteBin, including accounts on email domains like @hotmail.com, @msn.com, and @live.com. Neowin verified that the accounts are genuine, and that most appear to be based in Europe. Ars Technica reports, more specifically, those leaked accounts include usernames in alphabetical order beginning with the letters “ar” to “bl”....
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Get a Mac vs. Laptop Hunters: Which Are the Better Ads?
It seems that Microsoft’s been turning up the heat on almost all of its big rivals – Microsoft’s new search engine Bing had a strong first month and is giving Google a run for its money with Microsoft Office on the web. And earlier today, we learned that Microsoft’s building retail stores this fall right next to Apple stores. The icing on the cake for Microsoft this week? It looks like the company’s new “Laptop Hunters” ad campaign struck a nerve with Apple, so much so that it...
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Can 20 folks Make Bing? Nah.
Since vacation last week I’ve been on the road constantly, and unable to find much time to write. But this NYT Op Ed, by Robert Cringely, caught my eye, as it addresses something I’ve been watching closely for some time – the competition between Microsoft and Google. Clearly the two giants are circling each other’s core revenue streams – Google announced a vapor competitor to Windows last week, and Bing is Microsoft’s answer to Google search. (Disclosure:...
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