Best of 2010

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Contents 1 Events 2 TV 3 Films 4 Books 5 Theater / Other 6 Music 6.1 Albums 6.1.1 Electronic 6.1.2 Pop 6.1.3 Indie 6.1.4 Mixes 6.2 Videos 7 Technology 7.1 Games 7.2 Hardware 7.3 Software 7.3.1 Desktop 7.3.2 Mobile 7.4 Cloud Services 7.5 Internet Memes 7.6 Light reading 8 Food & Drink 8.1 Lunch Spots 8.2 Dinner Spots 9 See also

Events

• South Park Studios apologizes for copying Inception spoof and gets sued over What What (In the Butt) parody. EA denies plans to sue over Tiger Woods parody.

TV

• Louie starring Louis C.K.

Films

• Hot Tub Time Machine
• Inception
• Kick-Ass
• Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
• Toy Story 3

Books

Theater / Other

• Scottsboro Boys musical
• Wayson Choy: Are We There Yet? The Laurier Institute 7th Annual Multiculturalism Lecture

Music

Albums

Electronic

• Miike Snow

Pop

Indie

• Arcade Fire
• Stars 2010 album: The Five Ghosts
• Phoenix

Mixes

Videos

• Truckers Delight (I guess 2009, but I didn't see until 2010)

Technology

Games

• Angry Birds (iOS) Had to be on top!
• Trainyard (iOS)
• Rage HD (iOS) Short, but worth $1.99
• Cut the Rope (iOS) Fun puzzle game with just enough challenge to keep you interested until the end

Hardware

• Apple MacBook Air (2010) Not as revolutionary (over an MBP with SSD) as the Jobsian RDF would have you believe, but the smaller size is well worth it.
• HTC Aria Goes with Yelp and turn by turn navigation to make an impressive travel aid.
• iPad
• iPhone 4 with fancy Retina Display, 2 cameras, and controversial antenna design
• Kindle 3 with smaller size, better battery life, comparably decent display, usably fast display refresh, and only lacking epub support
• Samsung EX1/TL500 with fast f1.8 lens, RAW support, articulating AMOLED display, excellent Lightroom support, and pocketable size

Software

Desktop

• Launchy
• Adobe Lightroom 3.2
• Parallels
• Launchbar
• ExpanDrive (still needs webDAV!)
• VirtualBox

Mobile

• Cyclemeter (iOS) Pretty sweet activity tracking tool for only $5.
• Navigation (Android) Killer mobile app.
• MyTracks (Android) Killer mobile app.
• Yelp (Android)

Yelp and Google turn-by-turn Navigation combined are _the_ killer mobile app. Find a restaurant/event, click the directions button, and have the GPS take you there. Although the directions are still sometimes a little funky, this feature combination has revolutionized my opinion of "smart" phones and has changed the way I travel.

That's assuming you're OK with Yelp's business practices of course.

Cloud Services

• Airbnb low overhead short term rental accommodation
• Couchsurfing lower overhead short term accommodation
• Google ebookstore on launch day had a book I couldn't find anywhere else, and I only had to remove a little bit of annoying Adobe DRM to get it to work on the device of my choosing
• Google Voice somehow didn't make it into the list back in 2006 when it was GrandCentral. Being able to send and receive SMS from a computer or phone is _fantastic_, as are voicemail transcriptions. Integration with Android is key.
• Netflix comes to Canada - streaming only (no discs by mail) and with less selection compared to US, thanks to licensing restrictions
• Pandora still not in Canada, but the iOS app is fantastic for listening on the go, plugging into your car, etc.
• DropBox Perhaps yesterday's news.

Internet Memes

Light reading

Food & Drink

Lunch Spots

Dinner Spots

See also

• IMDb: Best Feature Films Released In 2010 With At Least 1,000 Votes
• iTunes Rewind 2010 (opens in iTunes) - top selling music, TV shows, apps, movies, audiobooks, and podcasts of the year
• The A.V. Club: The best music of 2010
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