It’s been a helluva year, hasn’t it?
We’ve had some laughs, shared some tears (some of you probably made some of us cry, at least), and posted thousands upon thousands of stories – 12,227 and counting, to be exact.
Thanks for making this a great year!
Here are the 100 most popular stories from 2008:
100. End of the world on Wednesday, take a half day today
99. BlackBerry Bold dated, priced for every carrier
98. OS X Leopard-iPhone banners appear at Moscone
97. Facebook partners with iTunes for music store
96. Confirmed- Microsoft cutting Jerry Seinfeld ads tomorrow
95. Amazing mini 3D-display cube developed in Japan
94. Adobe already has iPhone version of Flash running on emulator
93. Macworld 2008 Keynote- Watch it beginning to end, right here
92. MIT students demonstrate their Android applications
91. iPhone turned numeric keypad with Numberkey app
90. Review- Netflix Player by Roku
89. CrunchGear Live at the Apple Notebook Event
88. Review- BlackBerry Bold for AT&T
87. Bigfoot finding a hoax- Say it ain’t so! It is so, though
86. ‘Subtle but noticeable’: Toshiba XD-E500 upconverting DVD player
85. All About Linux 2008- Ten great live distros
84. Jailbreak software for 1.1.3 iPod Touches, iPhones released
83. Black Friday CrunchDeals- Sam’s Club Wii for $224 and it comes with a bunch of extras UPDATED
82. 10 gadgets to help you survive the coming economic apocalypse
81. Simply the best- My gadget picks for 2008
80. Actns-Swif.T virus affecting embedded YouTube vids?
79. T-Mobile @Home offers $10 per month unlimited VOIP
78. Best Buy intros ‘Premier Black’ Reward Zone program
77. 5 reasons damaging your MacBook is a worse idea now than ever before
76. Italian boy diagnosed with ‘PlayStation addiction’
75. Slew of upcoming Verizon phones leaked
74. Ancient computer knew more than just when the Olympiad was scheduled for
73. Leaked- Photos of the cast of the new G.I. Joe film in costume!
72. First Look- MSI Wind [UPDATED]
71. Google hearts the Konami code
70. Toilet aboard International Space Station is broken
69. Aerogel- Glass that is 99.8% air gets put through the paces
68. HP attempts to charge customer $1099 due to “liquid inside keyboard”
67. Tata Nano, the world’s least expensive car
64. Microsoft’s Vista armor starting to fade
63. Live Blogging Apple’s iPhone SDK Event
62. Hack the MacBook to have multi-touch, win an iPod Touch
61. Meet the new Lara Croft, gymnast Alison Carroll
59. Rumor- New MacBook Pros on St. Patrick’s Day?
58. Attack of the Clones- Garrison Carida of the 501st Stormtrooper Legion
56. iPhone 3G for $199 comes with 2-year contract
54. Review- BlackBerry Storm for Verizon Wireless
53. Xbox 360 red ring of death repair kit from Team Xecuter
52. PR and the fine art of not being crazy
50. How to add RAM to the Acer Aspire One netbook
49. Swoopo- “Entertainment Shopping” or Scam-
48. Macs getting Netflix “Watch Instantly” with Silverlight
47. New Apple exec Mark Papermaster ordered to stop working immediately
44. Instinct vs. iPhone- FIGHT
43. All About Linux 2008- Penguins fly! An interview with Charles Ogilvie, Virgin America’s head of
42. Nokia World 2008- Nokia N97
41. Review- Mio Knight Rider GPS
40. It’s official- Blu-ray wins
39. GTA IV ads pulled from Chicago buses under pressure from Fox News
38. WWDC 2008 Keynote Live – Recap
37. 10+ alternative OSes that may provide next year’s innovations
36. Augmented Reality- The Tuttuki Bako box needs your finger to play with virtual characters
35. Breaking- Apple to launch iChat for Windows on Monday!-
34. A Swiss man just flew over the English Channel with a jet pack
33. Why is Hulu more valued by advertisers than YouTube-
32. Toyota to sell solar panel-equipped Prius next year
31. Microsoft TouchWall can inexpensively turn any flat surface into a multi-touch display
30. Man builds Batman’s Tumbler in his garage
29. MacBook AirHead- why Apple’s new laptop is basically useless
28. All About Linux 2008- Should Microsoft be afraid of Linux-
27. A rumor- Apple to release multitouch keyboard for Apple TV
26. Bierstick- Two beers in under two seconds
25. iPhone 1.1.3 firmware downgrade complete, still unbricks you, SDK docs leaked
24. Blackberry Storm to kill iPhone
23. Morons film selves smoking up, return camera to store, are discovered by all of us
22. IBM creates super-fast memory
20. Mythbusters’ GPU vs. CPU demo- 1100 paintballs make the Mona Lisa in 275ms
19. Three iPhones, three different screens
18. Old watch-like navigation gadget from 1920
17. Exclusive- iJailBreak Mobile released- upgrade your Jailbroken iPod Touch, iPhone over the air!
16. Locking down laptops from the TSACustoms
15. ‘HiPhone’ looks mighty familiar, almost iPhone-like
14. Sprint Instinct- Could this thing beat the iPhone-
12. Feast your eyes on the the world’s lightest phone- Modu
11. Real Bigfoot carcass to be shown this Friday…or not
10. Overclock world record- Q6600 2.4GHz run at 5.1GHz
9. New Apple notebook spotted, we told you so
8. Cool sunglasses give you super vision
7. Man builds rad trimaran sailboat in yard, now it’s stuck there
6. Exclusive- Star Wars- The Force Unleashed for iPhone
5. Inside Darth Vader’s helmet
4. Kindle 2.0 Coming Around October 2008
3. Windows 7 screen grabs look better than they sound
2. How come nobody told me about the Dallas airport?
1. Breaking- Exclusive leaked pics of the iPhone 2! Thinner design- Check! Different colors- Check!
So there you have it. If you can think of any memorable posts from the past year that didn’t make the list, leave ‘em in the comments section and we’ll all reminisce in unison.