NessWorld Holiday Gift Ideas

Posted by NessWorld on Dec 17, 2009 in Lifestyle, Tech | 0 comments

Yesterday is generally the start of the rushed holiday shopping, at least around here, given that it’s a public holiday, and most people are off work. Unless of course they work in retail! Many manufacturers, and indeed many mainstream businesses will allow the majority of their staff to take leave from this time until just after New Year. It makes sense to companies in the Southern Hemisphere, because it’s Summer School holidays too, and everybody gets to have some nice family time, with great weather thrown in, and of course Christmas!

So here are NessWorld’s Favourite Things (eh hem) this holiday season, from the rather expensive, to the awesomely affordable:

This years Top Buy!

Then again, I could be biased because I already have one, but you cannot go wrong, if you buy your significant other (or yourself!) a Apple iMac 21.5-Inch Desktop. See-ree-us.

They work. Right out the box.

Every last piece of Apple advertising is true. They are quite simply put, stunning in every way possible. Plus, did you know that their screens are LED? As in the best technology currently on the market, far outperforming LCD and Plasma? Yes, it *is* true, because why else would I be having to elbow the other parental unit away from it whenever there is a new (or old, and much loved) Sci-Fi movie in the house? Watching Star Wars on this sweet machine will be almost as good as watching it on the big screen again.

They come loaded with everything you need to get started including the classic iLife Suite (09) of programmes with which you can organise you digital life, including edit photos, produce photobooks, burn your home movies into professional dvd’s (perfect Christmas gift for the grandparents), a professional movie editing programme with iMovie, allowing you to edit your home movies to perfection. There’s way too much good to be said about the iMac (and in fact any Mac) than would fit in this piece. Trust me, buy it.

The Next Best Buy is:

You will be the envy of amateur and professionals alike if you haul out the Canon EOS 7D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera at your next photo opportunity. It has been brought out by Canon, to bridge the gap between the single digit series (1D, 5D) and the double digit series (40D/50D) and offers you 18MP of pixel power. That will shoot a pretty large image. This particular model pictured above is coming bundled with an F3.5-5.6 28-135mm IS lens (that’s right, image stabilised). But you can order it body only if you have your own series of lenses in mind.

For the less pricey items, the following three suggestions would make anyone happy I reckon!

The Classic Collection of:

What’s the one thing that everybody needs to make it through the holiday season, whether they’re in the cold northern hemisphere, or the warm south? Humour. This is the Friends – The Complete Series Collection and it is at a seriously good price. So if you were smart like me, and waited until the show was finished before snapping up copies of it, you can now get it really affordably, and all in one go.

Something for Moms, Sisters, good friends, and any guy who is not afraid to be in the kitchen, then consider this:

Once you’ve tried her really tasty cooking, you will never look at butter with disdain again. Or carbs. Or red meat. Because day-yam, this lady knows how to cook. During an appearance on the Bonnie Hunt Show, there were guys coming out of the audience to taste what she was cooking. Kid you not.  Do pick up a copy of The Pioneer Woman Cooks
and you will be forever happy and fulfilled. So will your jeans but that is entirely besides the point.  It is also choc-full of her absolutely gorgeous photography, and anecdotes from country life. Just perfect for closet country girls like me.

Lastly but not leastl(y):

We have talked about this little number before, but it’s time we showed you again…

This is THE most wished for item on Amazon.com right now. The Kindle Wireless Reading Device is now available to happy people around the globe, who can download books of their choice in less than sixty seconds (bandwidth permitting of course). It works on cellular technology, so as long as you are in range, there is a huge range of titles available. Click to purchase and voila. Take up to 4000 books with you on holiday, in your pocket. No monthly fees, no subscriptions. Seriously, this is going to revolutionize the way people read, and probably save kids from having to tote around heavy school bags once the text book market gets on board!

If you’re still unsure about what to get your nearest and dearest for the holidays, then you can always pick up a gift card!

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