The ComputerUser gift guide: CU's picks for the year's top tech gifts.(GIFT GUIDE)

Around this time of year, magazines love to tell you what was the best in the categories they cover-the best movies, the best albums, the best new cars. Here at COMPUTERUSER we realize that best is a subjective term, and what might be the godsend product of the year for one might be the dud of the year for another.

So think of the products highlighted in this article simply as stuff worth checking out, and stuff with the potential to make a great gift--nothing less, nothing more. We cherry-picked a handful of categories from the tech marketplace (out of the zillions ava