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The best budget gadgets this Christmas

Buying for discerning tech savvy people can be an expensive pastime.

And the latest top gadgets such as the iPod Touch, HD video cameras or Blu-ray players can set you back hundreds of pounds.

This year don't fill your loved one's stockings with novelty mouse mats and USB mug warmers, as there's a world of great technology which can

Why bother calling Ghost Busters when you can just go to Radio Shack?
If there’s one thing for which Steve Gonsalves has irrefutable proof, it’s that people want to believe. As technology manager for The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) on the SciFi Channel documentary-style series, “Ghost Hunters,” he’s regularly approached by fans bearing that universally understood object of paranormal evidence — The Wonky Photograph.

Shoppers who crave electronics goodies, but are increasingly short on cash, may sacrifice a gym membership or movie popcorn just to get a new gadget like the "Google phone" this holiday season.
Tightened U.S. household budgets in the face of a recession means holiday spending plans for electronics are at their lowest level since the industry's Consumer Electronics Association began its annual shopper survey 15 years ago.

Getting a good deal on consumer electronics these days often seems akin to trying to time the stock market-you may get lucky every once in a while, but more often than not, it's a fool's errand.

I have a slight problem. I had a zip file with about 40 gadget install file. Instead of doing the smart thing (installing one at a time and checking them seperatly) I did the dumb thing (selected all and ran them at the same time). Now when Vista loads up with the sidebar enabled it lags like crazy.

I know I can disable it (as I currently have it) so it wont start on reboot. But I would really like to use the sidebar. I can open the task manager and set priority of the sidebar to low. This will let me use windows while the sidebar is still running, that way I can access the sidebar proporties and try to uninstall the gadgets. (One quick note, my task manager shows 2 instances of sidebar running. The first taking up about 30,000k and the second eating up a whopping 201,333k).