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The holiday season is approaching fast. In fact, it seems to approach faster every year. For those of you in the giving spirit around the office, it can be difficult to find that special gift for the person on the other side of the cubicle wall. It cannot be too expensive and it should reflect a certain amount of lightheartedness and fun. I mean, after all, gift giving in an office environment is really about generating smiles and feelings of goodwill with your co-workers.

With that spirit in mind, TechRepublic has acquired several inexpensive yet tasteful and useful desktop toys for review. One of these fine gadgets or gizmos should appeal to even the most difficult to buy for in your office.

Next on our gift list is the TheOne, a binary watch, which comes to us courtesy of KlearGear.com.

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Mark W. Kaelin

Strangely, Microsoft’s solution is to run software on a PC that won’t run…

Walk through the screens you see when you forego a new install and choose an upgrade.

The holiday season is approaching fast. In fact, it seems to approach faster every year. For those of you in the giving spirit around the office, it can be difficult to find that special gift for the person on the other side of the cubicle wall. It cannot be too expensive and it should reflect a certain amount of lightheartedness and fun. I mean, after all, gift giving in an office environment is really about generating smiles and feelings of goodwill with your co-workers.

With that spirit in mind, TechRepublic has acquired several inexpensive yet tasteful and useful desktop toys for review. One of these fine gadgets or gizmos should appeal to even the most difficult to buy for in your office.

Next on our gift list is the Power Station, which comes to us courtesy of KlearGear.com.

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Mark W. Kaelin

Get to know the fanless eWay TK-63T and walk through a hard drive installation.

Improve GPU and memory cooling on the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro with new heatsinks and a fan.

The new version of Google Toolbar for Firefox has very tight integration with Google Docs and Spreadsheets. It’s not enabled by default, but for people who want to keep a copy of their documents online, it’s as easy as enabling a few options.

Was my last batch of Vista tweaks too basic for you? Check out these 10 expert tweaks for Windows Vista RC2. No beginner-level stuff
here.

Throughout the storied, yet relatively short, history of computer gaming, there have only been a few games to capture the imagination of players and achieve a significant audience that were not part of the pre-release publisher hype machine. These games were unexpected gems that remain fan favorites even after their time in the spotlight has faded.

One of my favorite games in this category is XCOM UFO Defense from Microprose, which was released in 1994. This game mixed resource management strategy and tactical squad-based strategy into a single game. The game was tremendously addicitive and often frustrating in that fun way games, good ones, can often elicit.

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Mark W. Kaelin

ZyXEL’s ZyWALL 1050 internet security appliance offers more than just a VPN concentrator.

The holiday season is approaching fast. In fact, it seems to approach faster every year. For those of you in the giving spirit around the office, it can be difficult to find that special gift for the person on the other side of the cubicle wall. It cannot be too expensive and it should reflect a certain amount of lightheartedness and fun. I mean, after all, gift giving in an office environment is really about generating smiles and feelings of goodwill with your co-workers.

With that spirit in mind, TechRepublic has acquired several inexpensive yet tasteful and useful desktop toys for review. One of these fine gadgets or gizmos should appeal to even the most difficult to buy for in your office.

Next on our gift list is the Nabaztag, which comes to us courtesy of KlearGear.com.

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Mark W. Kaelin

Vista’s Security Center lets you manage Windows firewall, automatic updates, malware removal, and more.

The TechRepublic Wii Olympics team.

The holiday season is approaching fast. In fact, it seems to approach faster every year. For those of you in the giving spirit around the office, it can be difficult to find that special gift for the person on the other side of the cubicle wall. It cannot be too expensive and it should reflect a certain amount of lightheartedness and fun. I mean, after all, gift giving in an office environment is really about generating smiles and feelings of goodwill with your co-workers.

With that spirit in mind, TechRepublic has acquired several inexpensive yet tasteful and useful desktop toys for review. One of these fine gadgets or gizmos should appeal to even the most difficult to buy for in your office.

Next on our gift list is the Wolf King Warrior, The Ultimate FPS Gaming Pad courtesy of KlearGear.com.

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Mark W. Kaelin

Crack open the cases on the Nintendo Wii and Gamecube in a side-by-side comparison.

Go inside the GameCube and see the hardware that makes Nintendo’s console run.

Go inside the Wii and see the hardware that makes Nintendo’s console tick.

TechRepublic staff unbox their Nintendo Wii and put it through it’s paces.