Another year , another list of Macworld ’s most - translate stories . These are the top stories , by Thomas Nelson Page view , we received during the calendar year . ( Some of them were posted in prior geezerhood , which is interesting , but they achieved their places on this list wholly due to 2010 dealings . )
One distinction before we get start : this year you wo n’t find any of our “ live update ” stories from Apple events in our list . We cut through those stories other than ( and used a half - dozen different methods of traverse those events in 2010 ) , so they are n’t include . Suffice it to say , whenever Steve Jobs steps on a degree , our traffic fail through the roof .
Now , on to the top account :
1 . List : Apple ’s free iPhone cause
You may have heard that Apple announced that it would give a gratis iPhone case to every current owner of the iPhone 4 , as one of its response to the brouhaha over the iPhone 4 ’s antenna - interference issue . We quickly made a tilt of all the case , and filled them in with reviews as quickly as we could . This listing leaven popular with readers , so much so that it transcend our dealings chart , even though it ’s not a proper “ story . ”
2 . Review : Apple 27 - in iMac Core i5/2.66GHz
Our review of Apple ’s Core i5 ( with optional i7 ) iMac was so pop , it topped this chart last yr and still managed to end second this year . That ’s a lot of stake in Apple ’s top - of - the - line iMac .
3 . Microsoft : Next Mac Office due former 2010 with Outlook
This tidings article from August 2009 finished third in our leaning , no doubt due to dealings from substance abuser attempt more information about the next reading of Mac Office , which did indeed arrive later on on in 2010 .
4 . Show all files in the Finder
Behold the force of Google . This Mac OS X Hints blog entry from 2006 father massive numbers of varlet view from people who still need to know how to show all file in the Finder . Still work like a magic spell , too .
5 . call for an iPad pillowcase ? Take your pickax
Showing the great interest building up for the iPad , this March round - up of announced iPad cases by David Chartier and Dan Frakes was mighty pop with reader .
6 . chop-chop lock up your Screen
Another authoritative Mac OS disco biscuit Hint , and also from 2006 . It ’s a list of all sorts of ways to chop-chop interlock your Mac ’s blind .
7 . Microsoft announce Office for Mac 2011
The official declaration of Office 2011 came in February , and this article detail it . Microsoft give us a first peep at an other version of the suite . This article contains my preferred moment from an audience in all of 2010 , when a crack - caffeinated Han - Yi Shaw from Microsoft referred to Office 2008 as a offbeat stripling at long last maturing into a grown - up with Office 2010 .
8 . Apple announces iPad
So Apple introduced this thing called the iPad . peradventure you ’ve get wind of it ? This was our tidings story , ab initio posted as the issue was going on , and then updated as more data rolled in .
9 . iPhone 4 cases burst
In the aftermath of the iPhone 4 being announced , Lex Friedman detail the flood of new cases being announced for the twist . picayune did we know how important iPhone 4 case would become afterward on … .
10.Review : 11- and 13 - column inch MacBook Air ( Late 2010 )
The MacBook Air was antecedently a niche merchandise , but the tardy 2010 iterations of the product line draw everyone ’s attention . The page prospect accumulate by our review show turn up that point .
11.Hands on with Io 4 leaflet
Our own Dan Frakes takes you on a duty tour of how the folders in iOS 4 work .
12.Apple introduces iPhone 4
You may have hear of it .
13 . instal Snow Leopard : What you need to know
A classical article from 2009 that we re - posted late this class .
14.iPhone 4 camera beats the smartphone competition
Heather Kelly ’s equivalence of double from the iPhone 4 ’s camera and those of competing smartphones . The iPhone 4 make headway .
15.Roundup : Apple ’s free iPhone 4 case
A roundup of the free iPhone 4 case offered by Apple .
16 . Review : Apple Magic Trackpad
Apple ’s Magic Trackpad amaze a lot of attention , including from the critical eye of Dan Frakes .
17 . Review : Griffin Technology Motif for iPhone 4
Our favorite grammatical case that was a part of the loose iPhone 4 case program .
18 . Review : iPad
Our review of the iPad posted on the Clarence Day the iPad was issue , and was positively receive .
19 . Malus pumila introduce iWork for iPad
The introduction of iWork for iPad was Apple ’s bluff declaration that the iPad was not just an entertainment gadget .
20 . deucedly spoiled : Ten Apple turkey of the decade
Simon Jary ’s humourous piece about Apple ’s worst products of the past decade sire a lot of criticism and disputation .
