Dear Santa, please can we have...?

— Published December 8th, 2006  |  by David Moore

SkypeIn

Get your expat American or Ukrainian friend a phone number in their own country so his family and friends can call his Skype account at a local rate. Or maybe a small Irish consultancy could offer local phone numbers in Paris, New York, London and Sydney to help in their expansion?
http://www.skype.com/products/skypein/

Apple MacBook - back in black (or white)

The MacBook Pros look swanky in their aluminium enclosures, but the regular MacBooks offer performance to burn for a lot less. And pick up a copy of Parallels Workstation and you can run Windows XP or Vista alongside Mac OS X (if you absolutely have to).
http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html

Flickr Pro

So you're a doting father, or a keen photographer who just got a swanky 8MP digital camera for Christmas. Flickr is the perfect way to show the world your photos, but the free account is limited. With a US$25/yr Pro account, however, you get 2GB a month upload capacity and more or less unlimited everything else (storage, bandwidth… )
http://www.flickr.com/upgrade/

Computer Art

Finally, for the season that's in it, how about religious-themed sculpture and wall-hangings made from circuit boards and other bits of computers by New Mexico artist Marion Martinez? Interesting and beautiful.
http://www.marionmartinez.com/gallery/