So you've heard all the hype about Windows 8 and you want to try the consumer preview, but you use a Mac with OS X. What's a geek to do? Well, here's a free and easy way to try out Windows 8 Consumer Preview by using Oracle's free VirtualBox virtualization software package.

The first thing you want to do is download VirtualBox. You can download VirtualBox by visiting www.virtualbox.org and heading over to the downloads section.

Once you've downloaded and installed VirtualBox, you'll need to get the Windows 8 Consumer Preview from Microsoft. Grab the .ISO file from here. You'll need the .ISO file in order to install and run Windows 8 Consumer Preview in VirtualBox. We downloaded the 32-bit ISO image and then sat back for a while because the download is a bit large at 2.5GB.

Once we downloaded the ISO image, we fired up VirtualBox and went through the process of adding a new operating system. You'll want to give it a name, in our case we chose Windows 8 Preview and then we were able to choose Microsoft Windows as the operating system and Windows 8 (not Windows 8 64-bit) as the version of Windows we wanted to install. Once you start going through the next few setup screens, you'll want to just use the defaults that VirtualBox recommends. 

Once you've gone through the setup for the new operating system, simply click on the green START arrow, select the location of your ISO file and run through the usual Windows setup. You'll be running the consumer preview version of Windows 8 in no time and you'll be able to see what all the fuss is about! As for us, we were not that impressed with what we saw.

1) Best OS: Having used nearly every major computer operating system in 2011, we are voting for OS X Lion as the best operating system of 2011. It had a few hiccups in the beginning, but after a few updates the operating system is better than any other we've tried recently.

2) Best Celebrity Boobs: The best celebrity boobs of 2011 belong to Lindsay Lohan. Her recent Playboy release has sold like crazy and well, to be honest, LiLo's got a great set of tits!

3) Best iPhone App: Tiny Review is our pick for best iPhone app of 2011. Yes, it's another social app, but its simplicity is what sold us. You visit a location, take a picture, and type up a short 3 sentence summary of what you're doing at the location that gets placed over the photo you took. Brilliant!

4) Best Android App: We're going to be totally unfair here and say that our Porn Star Tweets app for Android is the best Android app of 2011. It's really not, but fuck you!

5) Best MyFreeCams.com Cam Girl: We're friendly with a lot of MFC girls, but Demonika Devour was our favorite MFC cam girl of 2011. She's witty, engaging, and sexy as fuck!

6) Best Twitter Account To Follow: Everyone loves to follow celebrities on Twitter, but we say, "Fuck that shit!" You want to follow accounts that actually provide relevant news stories, entertaining tweets, or pictures of naked chicks. Anything else is just irrelevant! So our top Twitter account to follow in 2011 is @dapswebsite. Their tweets are always fantastic and we like to think of them as our much cooler older brother that gets all the chicks and gives us the scraps.

7) Best Music Album Of 2011: No question about it, Steel Panther's "Ball's Out" was the best album of 2011, and possibly the best album of all time. Their music was playing almost constantly while we worked on the website and tried to come up with new, devious content!

8) Best Online Service: We use a hell of a lot of online services to make our lives easier, but this was our favorite in 2011. The best online service for 2011 is dlvr.it! We use them to help in a lot of our automation of tweets and best of all, the service is free!

9) Best Number of 2011: 69. But 69 is always the best number, right?

10) Best Sex Toy of 2011: The Retro Pocket Rocket! It's a rocket ship vibrator that has its own lunar surface to land on!

11) Best Twitter Follower of 2011: The best Twitter follower of 2011 was every single damn one of you! Thanks for hanging out with us on Twitter and on our website. Here's to an awesome 2012!