Although a bit late for this holiday season, the following IT gift suggestions, recommendations, and ideas can serve as a good reference for birthdays, weddings, and other gift-giving celebrations in 2011. The following suggestions and resources were recommended by staff in the Information Technology Assistance Center. Alphabetical order is used for easy reference, and weblinks have been added when provided by respondents.
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1. IT gifts that staff would love to get
- Amazon Free MP3 Christmas Sampler (music)
- Amazon Kindle e-reader
- Anything Apple 🙂
- Blu-ray player (Sony, Samsung)
- Chill Pill mini microphones (also at Union Computer Store)
- Gloves for using with IT: North Face e-Tip gloves, Agloves
- GRID-IT organizer for carrying IT devices
- iPad, iPod touch, etc. + accessories
- New laptops (ex: Macbook Pro, Dell XPS models)
- Scott eVest Carry-on Coat (33 pockets for IT tools, etc.)
- Smartphones: iPhone, Sprint Samsung Epic 4G, HTC Evo 4G
- Solid state hard drive for faster loading programs and OS
- Terapixel digital camera
- Xbox 360
- Xbox Kinect (video game controller that uses your body actions as the controller)
2. IT items great for gift-giving
- Blank CDs
- External hard drives, small portalbe 120GB hard drive for larger documents and laptop backup
- Fancy flash drives
- iPods, etc.
- iTunes gift cards
- Microsoft Points (for Xbox)
- Netflix subscriptions
3. Good shopping sites for IT products
- Amazon.com
- Best Buy
- Dealzmodo (Gizmodo.com’s daily round-up)
- Dealzon.com
- Newegg.com
- SlickDeals.net
- ThinkGeek.com
- Walmart
4. Good IT gift guides and other resources
- 11 Geeky Gift Ideas for 2010 (CIOInsight.com)
- ArsTechnica’s holiday gift/gadget guide
- Game informer magazine
- Engadget.com (for tech lovers)
- Lifehacker’s Hive Five round-ups (user-voted with comments and info about different solutions)
- Mashable.com’s Top 10 Gadgets Mashable Readers Want This Holiday Season
- New York Times’ holiday gift guide for 2010
- RSS feeds from Lifehacker, Gizmodo, and Engadget
