Yeah, no show this week. Sorry everyone but we are busy with the holidays. But we should be recording a show next week, which kind of off sets our schedule, but we do have a surprise in store and its well worth it!!!

But hey, just cause’s there’s no podcast doesn’t mean we don’t have anything to talk about:

First off check out Maximum PC’s article on 8 Practical Uses for Your Old Laptop, I really like the idea of turning it into a NAS though while power consumption would be great, storage maybe an issue.

Also Maximum Pc has another article on The 33 Essential Free Utilities for Every New PC

Special thanks to Terry Walker who sent these in.

Next off, for those of you missing our Podcast, check out this Episode of Buzz Out Loud… There is a great debate between Molly Wood and Brian Cooley over breaking the Kindle DRM.

Also our Tom Keely Has his Top 5 Worst Holiday Gift Picks:

Top Five Worst Tech Gifts: (5 being the most tolerable, counting down to 1, the worst)

#5 - PSP Go: What's more disappointing then receiving a gift that is going to almost immediately require you to spend more money in order to have any real fun with it?

#4 - Those 100 games-in-one brick game things that you'll see advertised on 4AM television and in the seasonal holiday mall shops:  More often then not, they'll have about five really terrible games and 20 variations of each.

#3 - 16 MB thumb drive: Give these only if you're out to lose friends and respect, or trying to get a giggle out of a someone.

#2 - Those cheap iPod Touch Chinese clones.  Ooooh, you've seen 'em at least once, probably on ebay from some shady seller that won't specify whether or not the player is the clone in question or the genuine article.  If it looks like a Touch going for the quarter of the price, DANGER!  DANGER!  Run AWAY!

(The sad part about these things is that if it weren't for the barely functioning touchscreens and dodgy UIs, they might fare a bit better and actually be worth the purchase; they usually have very wide audio and video format support, a respectable amount of internal storage and sometimes even video output options!)

Annnnd in the number one spot, the worst tech gift one can give to another is:

#1 - The underwater cellphone system... just...wow...no.  Just no.  Proudly brought to you by (of course) Sky Mall!

Check out the Link.

And Lastly from DumpsterTech to you:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!