Ever since 2008 , we ’ve ended the year at Macworld.com by listing our most pop and least like stories from the past 12 months . These rankings are n’t sham by how many people read a special article — that ’s another lean on the whole . Rather , these tilt are make every time you strike the plus and minus buttons at the bottom of a floor .

The last tallies can be a little mystifying , to be honest : Are readers have something a pollex - down because they did n’t care the subject of the article or just the topic itself ? Still , we find this to be a useful exercise . If nothing else , it provides a snapshot of what struck our reader ’ collective partiality during the preceding year ( or , conversely , what chafe them the wrong manner ) . And it can also give us an brainwave into the sort of stories that work and the one that maybe miss the mark .

One housework note that may or may not be of interestingness : We ’re excluding slideshows from our two lists here , in large part because the plus and minus push are more prominently displayed in slideshows , which can skew the consequence . Also , we call up it ’s more exemplifying to front at how our readers reacted to article and not just picture . And lest you think we ’re boot out slideshows just so that they do n’t prevail or list of disliked tarradiddle — and mind you , there were plenty of slideshows you people did n’t care for — slideshows would have also made up seven of our 10 most darling story had we keep them on the inclination .

Here are this year ’s loved and execrate stories .

Most liked

1 . 62 affair you may do with Dropbox

Our readers get the full credit rating for this story . When we asked for fashion that you use the filing cabinet - synchronize service , you responded with almost 250 suggestions . We managed to narrow it down to just five dozen tips .

2.Remembering Steve Jobs , the humanity who saved Apple

We published this stave - written recollection of Apple ’s carbon monoxide gas - laminitis on the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. he guide away .

3 . Review : The iPad 2

you could always expect to line up at least one review of an Apple ironware exit on this kind of a list , so why not a review of the follow - up to the company ’s very popular tablet ?

4.Steve Jobs : make a scratch in the universe

Of all the appreciation of Steve Jobs we published in the backwash of his passing , this one from editorial director Jason Snell seemed to resonate the most with our readers .

5.Get your mack ready for Lion

With its Mac App Store - only availability and lack of Rosetta compatibility , Lion was unlike any Mac OS X update that number before it . No curiosity proofreader appreciated instructions on how to get their Mac ready for OS X 10.7 .

6.Mac oculus sinister X Lion : What you need to know

Like I just sound out , readers were more than a minuscule funny to learn more about Lion .

7 . Review : The Verizon iPhone 4

Considering that this iPhone supported minimal differences from the iPhone 4 that originally shipped in 2010 , it ’s probably safe to reason out that masses were fairly interested in seeing incisively how an iPhone that did n’t require a two - year loyalty to AT&T measured up .

8 . Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO

This is one of those instances where a reader thumb - up reflect an appreciation for the topic of the article , as opposed to the news itself .

9.How to rip a DVD with HandBrake

get laid how to make the movies in your videodisk aggregation available to enjoy on your iOS gadget or Apple TV is always welcome advice .

10.Nine reasons to switch from Facebook to Google+

This seems less an endorsement of Google ’s social web and more a signal of far-flung dissatisfaction for some of Facebook ’s privacy hijinks during 2011 .

Most loathed

1.Macware going packet of 16 Mac utilities

Typically , our readers have show interestingness in bundles of Mac software . This was not one of those times .

2 . pass away , disk , die ! Six grounds to pour down the DVD

This judgment piece fromPCWorld’sTony Bradley fail to convert many users that the videodisc was yesterday ’s news .

3.Review : WD My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 3.0

We gave Western Digital ’s portable hard drive solid marks for cater plenty of capacity in a thickset and lightweight machine . reader were less betray on this reappraisal .

4 . IDC : Windows Phone to excel iPhone by 2015

Macworldreaders are understandably leery of story that predict doom - and - gloom for Cupertino . But articles that foretell end of the world - and - gloominess four year hence ? Come on .

5.Ad - digest Kindle : Why stop there ?

PCWorld ’s Jared Newman made the case for ad - supported due east - books . proofreader were n’t buying it .

6 . Macworld purchasing template : Multifunction printing machine

We were hoping to give you confidential information for finding the right MFP , but some readers felt our buying advice overlooked result like number one wood support and the price of color versus monochrome .

7.Adobe predicts immense emergence for its Flash histrion in smartphones

That may have been what Adobe was predicting in February , but fare November and Adobe ’s decision to no longer develop Flash for roving platforms , the company was babble out a different tune .

8.Avast launching beta of free antivirus for Mac

Whether it ’s this antivirus mathematical product …

9 . Intego releases VirusBarrier Plus to Mac App Store

… or this one , Macworldreaders do n’t seem to have much utilization for news articles about this variety of computer software .

10.Escape the Io SDK : Building iPhone ( and Android ) apps via Flash

Well , at least we can end 2011 having a good jape about the peregrine version of Flash .