Gift guide 2013: A gadget for everyone on your list

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	Gift guide 2013: A gadget for everyone on your list The holidays are here, and it's time to rock! With more than 140 products to choose from, let us take you on a journey through our favorite personal technology products and gift ideas for the techie on your list. From phones to computers to the hottest video games, we've got a bunch of great gift ideas. Please peruse and share with friends and family! Read More   WHITE PAPER: Ipanema Technologies Don't Let App Performance Problems Drag You Down Did you know: 73% of enterprises lose productivity due to poor application performance? And that's just the beginning of the issues resulting from poor application performance. Check out this exclusive IDG-Ipanema survey to learn about the far-reaching impacts of poor application performance, and what you can do about it. Learn More. In this Issue Gift Guide 2013: Work gadgets Gift Guide 2013: Games and gaming gear Gift Guide 2013: Photo and video gadgets Gift Guide 2013: Home and digital life gadgets Gift Guide 2013: Audio gadgets Gift Guide 2013: Health and fitness gadgets Gift Guide 2013: Outdoor gear or travel gear Gift Guide 2013: Phones, tablets and computers Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Vertical Video Edition Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive 10 reasons the browser is becoming the universal OS HP: 90% of Apple iOS mobile apps show security vulnerabilities Latest list: Meet the 10 fastest supercomputers RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds New Video: How to Configure NetFlow v9 on a Cisco Router Networks can grow fast—really fast. This rapid growth leads to increased network traffic, more endpoints, and new IPs consuming bandwidth. Key to a complete understanding of network behavior at your growing organization is the ability to collect and analyze NetFlow data in your routers. SolarWinds new video shows you how, in less than 5 minutes! Looking to enable Flexible NetFlow on your Cisco routers? In less than 5 minutes, SolarWinds lead Sales Engineer demonstrates how to enable NetFlow v9 on Cisco routers with custom flow records. Watch the short how to video now! Gift Guide 2013: Work gadgets The merging world of personal technology and workplace technology is always a fascinating scene to observe, so a lot of devices here can be utilized at home, and vice versa (see our Digital Life article for home-related tech gift ideas). But for the most part, we're confident that your work life will improve with these gadgets - peruse the writeups for gift ideas for your favorite colleague! Read More   Gift Guide 2013: Games and gaming gear Let's face it - this holiday season is going to be really good for the video gamer on your holiday list. Not only are there two new gaming consoles coming out (the Xbox One and Sony Playstation 4), but there are a bunch of games that will keep you entertained for months on end. Plus the accessories to enhance those games and experiences continue to be top-notch. Read More   Gift Guide 2013: Photo and video gadgets Like the world of smartphones and tablets, where there are so many choices and options that trying to highlight them all is an experiment in confusion, the world of digital cameras and video cameras presents a multitude of devices. For this wrapup, then, we're presenting a bunch of materials that the photographer and/or videographer would like to include in their arsenals, with a focus on things that let people watch videos or produce photos easier. Read More   Gift Guide 2013: Home and digital life gadgets Like many categories that we've chosen for this year's holiday gift guide, the lines are blurred. Several devices within the "home" category could fall into the "Audio Gear", "Video gear" or "Work/Office Gear" categories, considering how much work we do at home, or how much home technology we bring to work. Read More   Gift Guide 2013: Audio gadgets Music drives a lot of what we get out of our technology devices - if you can't hear the music from your device, or share it with others, it's just a bunch of ones and zeros sitting on a magnetic hard drive. Read More   Gift Guide 2013: Health and fitness gadgets There's no time like the present to start thinking about ways to make you feel better or get healthier. The gadgets and gift ideas presented here focus on exercise-related gadgets and two ways on getting a better night's sleep, which has been shown as one of the best ways to get healthier. Use these in-between your long bouts of videogame playing or video watching on the couch! Read More   Gift Guide 2013: Outdoor gear or travel gear While many of these gift ideas would make for a better fit in our summer gadget gift guide, these outdoor gadgets could still be used in parts of the country (or world) where the chilling cold of winter hasn't struck yet. In addition, cases and things that protect your devices never go out of style, whether indoors or outdoors. Here are our favorite devices that sort of fit this category of outdoor gear or on-the-road gadgets: Read More   Gift Guide 2013: Phones, tablets and computers In the past, we used to separate out categories for cell phones, tablets and computers. In theory, we still could create separate guides just for those products - there are so many options to choose from and not a week goes by where another phone, tablet or computer hits the market. 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