Here are the ten best items from all six gift guides to make one super list of the best items from this year’s gift guide!
For Podcasters, gamers or people who just want to make Skype calls, this headset will get the job done extremely well.
For those who don’t want or don’t need the High Definition capibilities of the HF200, then the FS200 is a great standard definition camera for home movies.
For exceptional sound quality out of your computer, Bose speakers are the best choice for that.
If you want full 5.1 surround sound and a slightly lower price tag than the Bose Speakers than, these Logitech Speakers will provide the quality you are looking for.
If a point and shoot isn’t good enough for the more serious photographer, then the Nikon D40 is a great, affordable DSLR camera.
For a faster machine, RAM is a great upgrade and it is not very expensive. I recommend using Crucial to research for the RAM but, because they are quite expensive I would buy the RAM from Newegg.com
For those who travel a lot and keep a lot of important information on an external hard drive, you don’t want to have to fly around the world with a huge terrabyte hard drive. With Pogo Plug, you can access the information on you external hard drive anywhere over the internet making your hard drive into a server you can access anywhere.
Another great gift for the traveler, especially for those who don’t have a great sense of direction. Why waste time, getting lost when you can just buy a GPS and save both time and money.
I love my Canon Vixia HF 100 and now, the HF200 out performs the Hf100 and is great for home movies and for amateur videographers.
For digital artists, Wacom tablets let you input data in your computer with a pen-like device and get the artistic feel when working with Photoshop or other graphic projects.
Serious Photographers and videographers will love this to record or take pictures formuch longer without having to run out of space which will be great.
The latest and greatest version of the Mac operating system is called Snow Leopard and not only does it free up a lot of hard drive space, but it causes your computer to run much faster. It also adds many additional functions and is well worth the $30 for all Mac users.
If you have invested in hundreds or thousands of dollars of electronics and you don’t want to have your equipment suddenly shut off when you loose power. That’s where the UPS comes, in, it will serve as a backup power supply so that power surges don’t damage your equipment. At the price of $60 it is totally worth it to protect all the expensive elctronic equipment.
For the serious music lover, the Bose Sound Dock delivers very high-quality sound and lets you truly enjoy the music on your iPod. That is if you are willing to pay the huge price!
If you are interested in having some extra screen real estate or just a second monitor for your laptop, for your picture, movies or anything else this monitor will work well for you.
Although it is $100 more than the 21 inch monitor it is a large screen great for professionals in graphic design or video editing.
Another more expensive gift, but this drive is great for speed demons who want to get the fastest speeds out of a hard drive. Solid state drives are much more expensive than a standard hard drive and they don’t have as large capacities but, if speed is a major concern, then SSD may be worth the money.
For those who are running either Windows XP and especially those who are running Windows Vista, Windows 7 is a great upgrade and makes your Windows machine so much faster.
Although, according to the original schedule I set in the beginning of the Holiday Gift Guides shows that this Friday will be the final gift guide, I have decided to extend the gift guides because I have so many products I want to include. Because of that, I will be posting a Gift guide three times next week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So instead of having 4 total gift guides there will be 6! This way I can cover everything I wanted to and give you more ideas for your last minute holiday gifts!
For those of you who maybe have a digital video camera and want to make semi-professional video but, don’t want to spend a fortune on an editing suite, Final Cut Express is the software for you! Final Cut Express has most of the editing tools of the $1,000 Final Cut Studio suite but, at a fraction of the price. The express version does not include the separate audio editing tool, Soundtrack, Motion Graphics program, Motion or the color correction program, Color, but if you just need to do editing that is not extremely advanced, Final Cut Express will get the job done!
If you are doing video editing, photo editing, or just need a big drive to store all your data, then you should get a 2 terrabyte external hard drive. It will let you store what you want without having to worry for a long time about filling up your drive!
One thing many technology lovers have in common, is that they love to learn new skills or about the next big thing in technology. That is why I think that books are a great gift that not only will be enjoyed by the technophile in your life as well as teach them more about computers because it is an ever-changing world!
The New iPhone 3Gs is even better the the old iPhone with at least double the speed of the iPhone 3G. The 3GS also comes with voice controls, video recording, Multimedia messaging, and much more! If you want to be productive or entertained wherever you are, the iPhone 3Gs does it for you and and incredible speeds.
I have always been a fan of Canon Powershot cameras and the newst one is the Canon Powershot 780 which takes amazing photos and has some how crushed it’s predecessor yet again.
Apple has updated their iPod Nanos making them even better than before. They now come in 8 and 16 GB and have a built-in video camera. This is great if you want to listen to music, watch videos, look at pictures and take video, all on one revolutionary small device.
Want to cut your landline and use your computer as your phone? Skype in allows you to receive calls to a local number for only $60 per year, and making unlimited calls to the United States only costs $3 per month. This saves a lot of money over old landline services!
I have already raved on how great this microphone performs for the low price and how great it is. If someone you know is a podcasters, singer or voiceover artist, this is a great present for them and will serve them very well!
For the inspiring HD videographer who wants something better than and iPod Nano but no a full fledged camcorder, the Flip Mino HD is a tiny High Definition video camera recording up to 60 minutes in a high definition in a little camera that can go anywhere.
I have already sung the praises of Dropbox, and for those who want to storage and sync more than 2 GB, Dropbox offers 50 Gb for $10 per month and 100 GB for $20 per month. This is great for anyone who travels or just has several computers and needs to keep their files in sync.
Here is the first items of my holiday gift guide for this year! Remember to come back every Friday until the Holidays for a new post each week!
Apple has updated their iMacs last month, and they are even better than ever! They start with a 21 inch display but, there is now a beautiful 27 inch display with the new Core I5 and I7 processors. These computers are great for almost anyone and are one of the slickest computers on the market.
I have loved using my HP Mini 100 netbook and this is it’s replacement. It is very similar to my netbook but has a few improvements. The display is 11 inches standard while the Mini 1000. cam with 8 inches, it also comes standard with a 160 GB hard drive instead of the 16 GB Solid state drive which, I think slows own the system. It also has a better graphics cards making it better for playing video than it’s predecessor. It is a great little laptop to take with you when you are on the go to get work done wherever you need to get work done!
The iPod Touch is a great little device to surf the internet, play games and listen to music! The newest version has a better graphics processor for gaming which Apple is really targeting at. It comes in a 8Gb model for $199, a 32 Gb for $299 and now a 64 Gb for $399! Whether you want to use it as an entertainment device or more like a pocket computer, as i do the iPod Touch is a very well made product!
Storage has become so inexpensive and a good 1 TB hard drive to storage all your files and media is great! It will give you so much space and allow you not to worry about running out of space for a good amount of space!
Thumb drives are just a great way to move your data around between computers and this is a 4 pack of 4 GB thumb drives this is amazing for anyone to move their data whereever they need to go!
It is Black Friday once again and that means that it is time for the Gdovin.net Holiday Gift Guide. This is the third year of doing this and each year I have expanded the guide. The first year, it was just a single post, last year I did 3 posts, and this year I am going to do 4 posts and a best of at the end. I have already picked over 30 items to cover this year so this year’s guide will be more extensive and will have a best of post at the end covering the best items from the entire gift guide. I am looking forward to the third annual Holiday Gift Guide and can’t wait for you to be able to read them all! The first post will come out today and will continue until the Friday before Christmas and the last Friday will have a regular post and then a few days later, there will be a the best of post.
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