Birthday CakeDaily Cup of Tech is one year old today! I can’t believe that it has been that long already! In celebration of our one year anniversary, I wanted to link back to the ten most popular posts of the last year:

10. USB Drive AutoRun.inf Tweaking

This was an idea that I had actually come up with prior to writing the blog. I saw something on del.icio.us about how to change the icon on a USB drive. My first thought was, “Man! He missed 90% of what the autorun.inf file can do!” and a post was born!

9. Upgrade Ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10

Ironically, this was a really quick post that I was able to put together in about fifteen minutes. All that I really did was take a simple text tutorial (which I credited in the post) and added the appropriate screen shots.

8. The Ultimate Zune Hack List

Another example of how I was able to use other people’s laziness to my advantage. All I really did was do a Google search for “zune hack” and then put the results into a list. Seems like it worked!

7. Is Internet Explorer 7 Spying on Me?

This was my first attempt at “investigative reporting”.  I saw the new Internet Explorer and thought, “What’s going on behind the scenes?”  Apparently, a lot more than we thought!

6. USB Drive Menu System

I follow the motto, “Learn to do by doing”.  I wanted to learn more about how AutoIt worked and I was also interested in figuring out how menu systems worked.  So, I combined the two ideas and this was the result.

5. DCoT Helps Find Lost Child

Things got pretty wild around this post.  I got attention from Popular Science, the Globe and Mail, not to mention Digg.  This post produced the largest spike in DCoT history!  It also brought out some of the more ugly elements as you can see in some of the post comments.

4. Recovering Your Lost Passwords

I’m still not sure if this is a popular post because people keep losing their passwords or they want to find out what other people’s passwords are!

3. HowTo Create Hidden Windows Shares

This one’s popularity really surprised me. I actually just wrote this as a quick post because I needed something for that day and I didn’t have anything prepared!  In my mind, this was just a basic thing that I thought everyone knew and I was just documenting it for completeness.  I guess I was wrong!

2. Have Your Lost USB Drive Ask For Help

This is very closely related to #10 and #5.  It was a very simple idea but I think that is what helped its popularity.

1. PC Repair System

Just like #8, this post has less to do with my skills and more to do with me willing to put in some effort.  I simply grabbed a few small tech tools that will run on a USB drive and put them together as one package.  Voila!  Instant hit!

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