Are you finally getting over your New Year's Eve partying? We got around to feeling human sometime late last night, just before bed again. Well, in case you were traveling or exercising your drinking arm excessively and didn't have a chance to check out these hot hits, here's a list of awesome Mac|Life articles to get you up to speed.

Features:

- New Year's Eve iPhone Survival Guide - It's probably too late for this to help you with your New Year's Eve doldrums, but these app recommendations have an evergreen quality to them. Escape bad dates, dull family get-togethers, or just entertain yourself and your friends.

- 100 Greatest iPhone Apps of 2009 - 2009 could easily be remembered as the Year of the App. It was the year Apple's store busted out its 100,000th app and crushed all competition. Here's 100 apps as nominated by our readers as the game changers.

- Apps of the Year - Mac|Life Staff Picks - With over 2 billion downloads and a ton of recommendations in the link above, the Mac|Life Staff winnows things down to our faves.

- The Top 10 MacLife.com Articles of 2009 - The end of the year always brings out best of lists, and we're just as addicted to them as anyone else. Here's a list of our ten best articles, each of which is itself a best of list. It's a listamania!

- 50 Technologies that Rocked the Decade - Every decade feels revolutionary, but 2000-2009 saw some mega technology advances. Remember dial up? Yeah, that 54kbps was rockin' in its day. So was the antenna on your cellphone back then. And your VCR. And your enormous boxy monitors and TV sets.

How-Tos:

- Color Your MacBook - We've got the skins for our iPhone down pat, but what about our MacBook Pro in its uniform silver? We gather the best sources for personalization, from the cheaper DIY options to the pricey pro action. You'll catch eyes with these beautiful customizations.

- Touch-Typing for Newbs - 'Tis the season for iPod touch and iPhone purchases. What's a newcomer to touch technology to make of those tiny little on-screen buttons? You'll get used to it, of course, but until you do, here's some helpful hints.

News:

This was the week of patent news for Apple fans. Imagine Wii-like media control action for Apple TV with Apple's Wand remote, using the same accelerometer controls Apple's free Remote app uses....Basic hardware patents for elements of the MacBook Pro, the iPhone, and the iPod touch as well as features in OS X like Stacks and Exposé were awarded...and Nokia decided to take the fight to Cupertino with a bevy of claims of patent infringement in the iPhone's manufacture.

Of course, as a New Year dawns that means it's time for Tablet rumors to flood the zone. A former president of Google China says it's totally on track and he's in a position to know a little something about it...Rumors also say that Apple's stocking up on 10" touch display screens which seems a good indicator of something, we just can't put our finger on what...a little trademark action from Cupertino suggests that the Tablet might be saddled with the horrific name of iSlate and might be managed from your desktop through a program called iGuide...and should the Tablet actually for really real come out, it will change your life and that's the truth.

Randomly speaking, sales of iWork surged last year even with Microsoft's 2008 Office continuing to dominate the field...Apple let pass a deadline to update Boot Camp to handle Windows 7, if you really care...AT&T says NYC can't handle the iPhone, meaning that the carrier is passing the buck as they drop the ball again on their weak coverage... the App store did gangbusters business this Christmas...and what looked like a too good to be true MacBook price for educators and students was just that, too good to be true.