Year in review: 2010's most popular stories
These are the most popular—by pageviews—stories that ran on Ars Technica during 2010. We've split them into two categories: multipage features and reports. Without further ado:Multipage features
10. Tentacular, tentacular!: Beware, mortals: Cthulhu has returned, and he's armed with bacon and an unhealthy obsession with geek brains. Battle your way through our first-ever interactive adventure and discover the mysterious country of "Googuela"! Try your hand at booth babery! And find out who's really driving the geekerati mad at a Vegas convention!9. The future of notebooks: Ars reviews the 11" MacBook Air: Steve Jobs called the new MacBook Air models "the future of notebooks." We gave the 11" MacBook Air a week to prove him right, and for some users, it might be true.
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Week in review: New Year's Eve edition
Ars Staff picks: our 10 favorite Android apps of 2010: 2010 has been the Year of the App, and the Ars staff has listed out our top 10 favorite Android apps of the year. What are some of yours?Masterpiece: Street Fighter II: Our occasional series on gaming masterpieces continues. Today we look at why Street Fighter II was so awesome.
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Xbox indies band together for promotion, get Microsoft's attention
Microsoft does a great job of promoting Xbox Live Arcade games. There's the Summer of Arcade, which this year featured excellent titles like Limbo and Monday Night Combat, and more recently the company launched the Games for the Holidays promotion, featuring games like ilomilo and Raskulls. But Xbox Live Indie Games don't get the same kind of treatment. So a group of developers decided to take things into their own hands and do their own promotion, which led to the Indie Games Winter Uprising.Read the comments on this post
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A year in Infinite Loop: 2010's most popular stories
2010 was a big year for Apple, as it saw the debut not only of the iPhone 4, but the iPad. There were also some new MacBook Airs and a 12-core beast of a Mac Pro. Your top 10 stories from Infinite Loop follows.Ars Technica reviews the iPad: Six Ars staffers, four days, one new Apple product—inside is everything you wanted to know about the iPad, plus a whole bunch of stuff you didn't know that you wanted to know. We did everything: watching, listening, reading, gaming, and working with the iPad. Here's what we learned.
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Windows Phone 7 piracy materializes with FreeMarketplace
A proof-of-concept application, FreeMarketplace, that allows any Windows Phone 7 application to be downloaded and installed free of charge has been developed. Though Marketplace applications are protected by DRM, FreeMarketplace removes the protection, enabling the applications to be used without charge.It was discovered shortly after the phone platform went on the market that the raw installation packages, "XAP" files, could be freely downloaded; the Zune client software downloads XML files with all the package locations to enable application browsing and installation, and both this XML and the XAPs are served without restriction.
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FBI raids Texas colocation facility in 4chan DDoS probe
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is targeting a Texas-based computer network that the government thinks was hijacked for the Anonymous group's Operation: Payback DDoS attack on PayPal. "As part of the process of identifying the computer system that I seek to search, I may be forced to check each system belonging to the target customer until I have determined that it is the computer to be searched," the author of the FBI's Affidavit in Support of a Search Warrant of the facility explains.
The FBI's request was obtained by The Smoking Gun news site. It comes following Anonymous or 4chan's attempt to bring down various financial service companies that refused to do business with Wikileaks, most notably PayPal and the Swiss bank PostFinance.
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