I am the person who wrote the coderwall tip and I am sorry to hear that you feel like this. Especially because I did read your post a while ago, forgot about it and lost the link. I then just searched the GData docs and it's a documented feature. https://developers.google.com/gdata/samples/spreadsheet_samp... so I just spread something lesser known and didn't mean to "steal" anything.
mainly haven't tried the Parallels method, prior experience with Windows 7 using Paralles always end up running out of memory. I found VMware has a better integration in terms of VMware tools that comes along.
Worth to note that the latest Mac mini has dropped to $499, that makes Hackintosh even more unattractive
http://www.nextofwindows.com/buying-a-cheap-mac-mini-vs-buil...