100 Best Products, in Ranked Order?

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“The 100 Best Products, in Ranked Order” – Ranked by PCWorld.

1. Hulu Review

2. Apple iPhone Review | Video test | Check prices

3. Facebook Site

4. Microsoft Windows XP Review | Check prices

5. Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Review | Check prices

6. Flock Review | Download

7. Eye-Fi Review | Check prices

8. Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1 Video review

9. Harmonix Rock Band Video review | Check prices

10. Wikipedia Site

11. Netflix Site

12. Microsoft Xbox Live Site

13. Apple iPod Touch Review | Check prices

14. Craigslist Site

15. Scrabulous Site

16. Nintendo Wii Review | Check prices

17. Apple Mac OS 10.5 Leopard Review | Video review | Check prices

18. Apple HD Cinema Display Site

19. Twitter Site

20. Pioneer Kuro PDP-5010FD Review | Check prices

21. Mozilla Firefox 3Review | Video review

22. Apple Safari Review | Download

23. NPR.org Site

24. Adobe Photoshop CS3 Review | Check prices

25. Google Maps--Street View Video tour | Site

26. Apple MacBook Pro (Penryn) Review | Check prices

27. Google Docs & Spreadsheets Site

28. Apple Final Cut Studio 2 Site

29. Linksys WRT600N Review | Check prices

30. Flickr (Yahoo) Site

31. Sony Bravia KDL-52XBR4 Review | Check prices

32. Intel Penryn News and reviews links

33. Apple iChat Review

34. Creative Zen Review | Check prices

35. Verizon FiOS Site

36. Pandora Review

37. Canon EOS 40D Review | Check prices

38. LG Electronics L196WTY-BF Review | Check prices

39. TiVo HD Review | Video review | Check prices

40. Data Robotics Drobo DRO4DU10 4 Bay Hard Drive Array Review | Check prices

41. Google Gmail Site

42. Electronic Arts Rock Band controllers Video review | Check prices

43. Mozilla Thunderbird Review | Download

44. Dell XPS 420 Review | Check prices

45. Washington Post Site

46. Yelp.com Site

47. Nikon D60 Review | Check prices

48. The Consumerist Site

49. AdventNet Zoho Review

50. OpenDNS PhishTank Site

51. Western Digital VelociRaptor Review | Check prices

52. NYTimes.com Site

53. Motorola MotoRokr T505 Car Speakerphone Review | Check prices

54. SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus Site | Check prices

55. Dash Express Review | Check prices

56. Panasonic TH-42PZ700U Review | Check prices

57. Netgear ReadyNAS Duo Review | Check prices

58. Symantec Norton IS 2008 Review | Check prices

59. RIM Blackberry Curve 8300 Series 8300 Review | 8320 Review | Video review | Check prices (8300) | Check prices (8320)

60. Vimeo Review

61. SideStep.com Site

62. Alienware Area-51 m15x Site

63. Microsoft TellMe Review

64. Amazon MP3 Site

65. Samsung SyncMaster 305T Review | Check prices

66. Apple Logic Studio Site | Check prices

67. Gateway XHD3000 Review | Check prices

68. HP Photosmart C5280 Review | Check prices

69. USB Safely Remove 3.3 Download

70. Samsung LN-T4061 Review | Check prices

71. nVidia GeForce 8800GT Site | Check prices

72. Cerulean Studios Trillian Download

73. Creative Aurvana X-Fi Review | Check prices

74. Olympus SP-570 UZ Site | Check prices

75. Apple iMac Review | Check prices

76. Samsung 2263DX Review

77. Canon Vixia HF10 Site | Check prices

78. Mint Review

79. VMWare Fusion Site | Check prices

80. Apple TV Take 2 Review | Check prices

81. YouTube (Google) Review

82. Chestnut Hill Sound George Site

83. Microsoft Office 2007 Review | Check prices

84. Intel SkullTrail Review | Check prices

85. Canon Pixma MX700 Review | Check prices

86. AT&T Tilt Review

87. Canon Powershot SD1100 IS Review | Check prices

88. Vizio Gallevia GV42LF Review | Check prices

89. Apple MacBook Air Review | Video review | Check prices

90. Ubuntu Linux Review | Download

91. The Orange Box (Valve Corp.) Site | Check prices

92. Digg Site

93. Asus U2E Review | Check prices

94. Meebo Review

95. HP Blackbird 002 LCi Review | Check prices

96. Partition Logic Download

97. Palm Centro Review | Check prices

98. Audacity Download

99. Lifehacker Site

100. Jing Project Site “

Referenced PCWorld Article: "The 100 Best Products of 2008This year's tech gems--as picked by PC World editors and readers--will leave you more productive, connected, and entertained.Edited by Mark Sullivan, PC WorldMonday, May 26, 2008 10:00 PM PDT"

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From the wire: PC World©

" Apple Will Rule the Living Room by 2013, Forrester Say

Apple will rule the living room in five years, analysts said Thursday as they slapped down the Tarot cards to predict what the company would be up to in 2013.

"The home destination is where Apple wants to roost," said James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research who co-authored a report released Thursday grandly titled "The Future of Apple Inc."

According to McQuivey and his Forrester colleague, J.P. Gownder, Apple will leverage its existing products and services -- ranging from the Mac to its retail Apple Stores to the Genius Bars in those stores -- to be one of the companies that unites home audio and video with information technology.

Among Forrester's predictions are those that bet Apple will:

Crank out a home server that "doesn't contain the word 'server.'"

Produce an all-in-one super remote -- something Forrester's dubbed "AppleSound" -- that controls everything musical in the house, including iPods , the home stereo and audio-playing computers.

Sell network-enabled digital photo frames and room-specific "clock radios" that stream images and tunes from the server.

Extend the AppleTV into Blu-ray territory, or morph it into an Apple HDTV line.

Offer in-home installation services for all this gear, using its Genius Bars as a starting point.

Revamp its Apple Stores into retail outlets that push the digital living room/digital lifestyle.

And amp up iTunes so it ties together digital content with cloud-based updates, remote management and editing.

Apple's Ambitions

We haven't fabricated anything out of fantasy," argued McQuivey. "There's nothing from 'Star Trek' here. But Apple clearly has bigger ambitions than just the Mac base, so we started thinking about the ways it could get there, and then how they could do that by going to the next level, and then the next level after that ... "

From the wire: c/net News©

"May 22, 2008 3:50 PM PDT

Microsoft embraces 'Bring Your Own Laptop' model

Posted by Ina Fried 3 comments

REDMOND, Wash.--You've heard of BYOB, now get ready for Bring Your Own Laptop.

There's a small but growing trend in which companies are choosing to give employees money toward their personal laptop, rather than providing a company-issued portable. British Petroleum is among the companies that is trying the approach.

One of the technologies that is making that possible is desktop virtualization, which allows companies to put their software or even an entire corporate image onto the device without having to worry about the fact that it doesn't control the entire laptop. Basically, the corporate stuff can run in a sandbox, with personal data and programs running alongside--but not intermingling with--the business processes. .... "