{"id":3090,"date":"2009-12-31T19:46:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T01:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2009-12-31T22:32:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T04:32:46","slug":"best-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=3090","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this is my slapped together at the last minute best of 2009 entry. Sorry I didn&#8217;t put more thought into it but the end of the year kinda crept up on me if you can believe it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Favorite album discoveries: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/the-fame\/id294084085\">The Fame &#8211; Lady Gaga<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/ocean-eyes\/id322447609\">Ocean Eyes &#8211; Owl City<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Songs in heavy rotation on my iPod (not necessarily released this year):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/celebration\/id325580679?i=325580783\">Celebration &#8211; Madonna<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/downpipe-radio-edit\/id330832572?i=330832995\">Downpipe &#8211; Mark Knight &#038; D Ramirez vs. Underworld<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/echoplex\/id285284658?i=285284720\">Echoplex &#8211; Nine Inch Nails<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/the-fame\/id294084085?i=294084217\">Fame &#8211; Lady Gaga<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/fruit-machine\/id280390218?i=280390221\">Fruit Machine &#8211; The Ting Tings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/good-girls-go-bad-feat-leighton\/id322396906?i=322396909\">Good Girls Go Bad &#8211; Cobra Starship<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/hot-air-balloon\/id314245251?i=314245261\">Hot Air Balloon &#8211; Owl City<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I Am Not a Robot &#8211; Marina &#038; The Diamonds<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/i-gotta-feeling\/id318390146?i=318393999\">I Gotta Feeling &#8211; Black Eyed Peas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/map-of-the-problematique\/id317961661?i=317961667\">Map of the Problematique &#8211; Muse<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/poker-face\/id294084085?i=294084155\">Poker Face &#8211; Lady Gaga<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/shes-got-me-dancing\/id330304500?i=330304773\">She&#8217;s Got Me Dancing &#8211; Tommy Sparks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/tear-you-apart\/id91431035?i=91431082\">Tear You Apart &#8211; She Wants Revenge<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>iPhone Apps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Favorite Games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/peggle\/id314303518?mt=8\">Peggle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/pocket-god\/id301387274?mt=8\">Pocket God<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/moonlight-mahjong-lite\/id285490012?mt=8\">Moonlight Mahjong Lite<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/ramp-champ\/id317284160?mt=8\">Ramp Champ<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/smiles-zen\/id297637863?mt=8\">Smiles Zen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Favorite Apps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/cardstar\/id301460311?mt=8\">Cardstar<\/a> &#8211; store all your reward cards on your phone. The best part is how amazed the cashiers are to see it in action. I&#8217;ve gotten a comment every time I&#8217;ve used it at Blockbuster and Petsmart.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/comcast-mobile-app\/id320788270?mt=8\">Comcast<\/a> &#8211; Believe it or not, Comcast&#8217;s app isn&#8217;t half bad. Pretty handy when looking for something to watch. Even better than the on-screen guide.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/dropbox\/id327630330?mt=8\">Dropbox<\/a> &#8211; Great way to keep files synced for access away from home.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/ebuddy\/id320087242?mt=8\">eBuddy<\/a> &#8211; An inexpensive alternative to Trillian. It only keeps you logged in for a half hour after exiting the app, but it supports multiple chat platforms.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/echofon-for-twitter\/id286756410?mt=8\">Echofon<\/a> &#8211; The only Twitter app I&#8217;ve used and liked.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/evernote\/id281796108?mt=8\">Evernote<\/a> &#8211; Great way to keep notes on things you might want to look up later. Allows tagging.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/facebook\/id284882215?mt=8\">Facebook<\/a> &#8211; Self explanatory.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/camera-genius\/id304169579?mt=8\">Genius<\/a> &#8211; Nice camera app that&#8217;s better than the built-in camera.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/imdb\/id342792525?mt=8\">IMDb<\/a> &#8211; It took them long enough, but I love using this app when I&#8217;m on the couch watching TV.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/pandorabox-download-paid-apps\/id309326551?mt=8\">Pandorabox<\/a> &#8211; Great way to find new and discounted apps. You can add apps you&#8217;re interested in to a favorites list and it will notify you when they go on sale.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/shazam\/id284993459?mt=8\">Shazam<\/a> &#8211; Best way to find out the name and artist of a song on TV.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/shopper\/id284776127?mt=8\">Shopper<\/a> &#8211; Eliminates any need for me to keep a paper grocery list.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/todo-lite\/id299003538?mt=8\">Todo Lite<\/a> (until the $10 full version comes down in price) &#8211; I can&#8217;t be without my to-do app. I use it daily to remind me of all sorts of things.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/yelp\/id284910350?mt=8\">Yelp<\/a> &#8211; Not as robust as the site, it has come quite in handy when out shopping and we&#8217;re looking to grab something to eat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s it. Another decade is over. Welcome to the 10&#8217;s. That sounds so weird.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is my slapped together at the last minute best of 2009 entry. Sorry I didn&#8217;t put more thought into it but the end of the year kinda crept up on me if you can believe it. Music Favorite album discoveries: The Fame &#8211; Lady Gaga Ocean Eyes &#8211; Owl City Songs in heavy rotation on my iPod (not necessarily released this year): Celebration &#8211; Madonna Downpipe &#8211; Mark Knight &#038; D Ramirez vs. Underworld Echoplex &#8211; Nine Inch Nails Fame &#8211; Lady Gaga Fruit Machine &#8211; The Ting Tings Good Girls Go Bad &#8211; Cobra Starship Hot Air Balloon &#8211; Owl City I Am Not a Robot &#8211; Marina &#038; The Diamonds I Gotta Feeling &#8211; Black Eyed Peas Map of the Problematique &#8211; Muse Poker Face &#8211; Lady Gaga She&#8217;s Got Me Dancing &#8211; Tommy Sparks Tear You Apart &#8211; She Wants Revenge iPhone Apps Favorite Games: <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=3090\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,39,9,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-media","category-music","category-product-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}