Oh, Veronica De La Cruz of CNN. I accept that you are young. I aswell accept that you are hot—especially if compared to some of the added association (*cough*LarryKing*cough*) you plan with. But accepting adolescent and hot does not alibi you from putting out one of the a lot of abhorrent apparatus guides I’ve apparent this ancillary of the banking meltdown. And really, application your adolescence and acidity to try to draw absorption abroad from what can alone be advised apathetic journalism? Over here, we alarm that bang whoring. This Christmas, Veronica (who is “secretly a tech nerd” according her columnist release) suggests we get these things for your tech-loving friend: • an Apple MacBook Pro. Because everybody has $2000 to absorb on a stocking crammer for their admired apparatus freak! Though, am I amiss or is she in fact commercial either a 13-inch Macbook or one of the earlier MacBook Pros in her pictures? • The Flip or the Flip Mino HD. Sure, it’s not too bare an abstraction for the archetypal customer (my aunt was talking about accepting one). But I would accept that a absolute tech-lover would adopt something a little beneath “The Mom Special At Wal-Mart.” • BlackBerry Storm or Bold (depending on how hardcore of a Blackberry user you are). Oof. I mean… oh, Veronica… honey… I get that you adulation your BlackBerry, but couldn’t you at atomic accept amid one of the two PR releases RIM beatific you? • BOSE Quiet Comfort 2 Acoustic Noise Canceling headphones. You know, annihilation gets a apparatus authority aflame added than something that’s been featured in every allowance adviser out there back 2003. • Zagg’s Invisible Shield (to assure your accessories on the go!). I adduce Sean, in his headline: B.S. Alert. (A Giz clairvoyant has notified me that Sean’s analysis is of the Case-Mate, not the InvisibleShield, which may in fact be a hardly bigger apparatus protector. Oops, my bad. I still advance that this is a advancement based, a lot of likely, on the chain of business people.) •LIVE SCRIBE Note-taking pen/digital recorder. Six accessories in and we assuredly accept a accessory that seems able-bodied anticipation out. It’s not accessible abundant for anyone to already have, it’s bargain abundant for you to buy it for them, and it’s one of the best of its class. Too bad any acceptable amulet from this aces is absolutely wiped out by the next one… • Twhirl or Twitterberry (a have to for any Twitter-user).Did she absolutely just advance a chargeless BlackBerry app as a gift? What are you traveling to do—put the URL hotlink in a box? It’s like if you get those coupons for “one chargeless kiss” from your admirer as a altogether allowance and while you’re sorta “aw, that’s sweet,” you’re aswell “I get those for chargeless anyhow and you are a bargain asshole.” In short, I alarm escapade on Veronica’s cred as a tech geek. Everybody knows the endure affair a tech beatnik would do is half-ass it if somebody asks them to name their admired accessories of the year.

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