Readers' Choices - Top 13 Tech Drive-in Stories of 2010

2010 was a momentous year as far as our small little blog is concerned. Well, the most important part is, 2010 marked the beginning of Tech Drive-in, 2010 Feb 17 to be precise. Yeah thats right, we are not even an year old! And we already have a really good readership base and fan following which was beyond our wildest expectations. A special thanks to all our dear readers for that. Now lets take a peek into the top 13 Tech Drive-in articles that really made the difference.

Top Tech Drive-in Articles for 2010
This choice of articles featured here is based on the number of page views each of them got. Though we did slightly alter the rankings to feature articles from the widest of topics to give our new readers a good overview of Tech Drive-in and also provide readers with a glimpse of the kind of topics we discuss here.

Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
The final release of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat is here with a ton of improvements. I think, it's time to stop talking about the great strides Ubuntu 10.10 has made on the usability fronts and lets just concentrate on the things you need to do and you could do with the new Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat".

Wallpapers for Ubuntu
30 beautiful wallpapers for Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Wallpaper
Nautilus Elementary
Nautilus Elementary is probably the best thing happened to Gnome's very own file browser in a long time. The amount of improvements Nautilus Elementary brings to Nautilus is overwhelming.

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HTML5 Demos
HTML is basically a standard for structuring and presenting content in the internet and HTML5 is the newest incarnation of HTML.

Massive Changes Coming to Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' Installer
A quick look into the evolution of Ubuntu 10.10 default installer.

Linux Desktop Customizations
Beautiful Linux desktop customizations you should see.

Elegant Gnome Theme Pack For Ubuntu is Beautiful
Elegant Gnome has droid sans as its default font and it also requires nautilus-elementary to be installed for best results.

Elegant Gnome Theme Pack Ubuntu PPA
7 Brilliant GNOME GTK Themes
Our collection of 7 brilliant GNOME GTK themes you should definitely give a try in your Ubuntu.

Divergence IV - A New Hope GTK Theme
Ever Improving GNOME Shell
GNOME Shell is a new completely revamped user interface for GNOME. GNOME Shell brings a new window manager called Mutter which is a combination of Metacity and Clutter.

Gnome Shell
Top 18 Applications to Install After Installing Ubuntu
18 top notch applications you need to install and experience after installing Ubuntu.

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8 Not-So-Common Nautilus Hacks and Improvements
List of top 8 nautilus hacks and improvements you need to know.

nautilus
Discussing the User Friendliness of Linux
Do read the reader comments below the post, one of the most engaging discussions we ever had at Tech Drive-in. "It is not the friendliness factor, it is the user familiarity factor that is giving a lot of bad name for Linux."