Here it is again. That time of the year when you are expected to provide gifts for certain people whether you want to or not. Abstaining is an option but will do little to further your acceptance into the good graces of friends and family. I hope to provide some recommendations for appropriate gifts for those technology geeks in your life. I will try to refrain from stating the obvious. We probably already know that everyone who doesn't already have one would enjoy an iPad.

I will first postulate a couple of caveats. When I say technology geek I am referring to individuals who are truly immersed, fascinated, and driven by technology. If your spouse or significant other is mad about Crazy Birds but is challenged when trying to access their Gmail account from a computer other than the one you configured for them, they do not qualify as worthy of a cool tech gift. Try the "under $25" display near the game section at Target for them.

Second, any tech gift worthy of giving is one you would want for yourself (or probably already own and use). Here again we have made an assumption—that you are in fact worthy of a cool tech gift. We will give you a pass on that one just by virtue of reading this in Tech Decisions…although that is open to discussion.

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