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30 Great Holiday Gifts for The Designer and Developer In Your Lives

Posted on 13. Dec, 2010 by bmackler in Inspiration, Resources

Its that time of year again.  Time to buy those important holiday gifts for your loved ones or coworkers.  As we all know, it is never easy to find the right gift for the designer or developer in your life.  They are generally very hard to shop for since they speak a different language and sometimes live in a different world, but now you have more unique, fun and useful gifts than ever.

Today lets take a look at 30 Great Holiday Gifts for The Designer and Developer In Your Lives

Gadgets and Accessories

Livescribe 2 GB Pulse Smartpen

$79.99

• Captures over 200 hours of recorded audio or 32,000 pages of notes. (Actual available recording time varies by audio quality setting)
• Instantly play back your recorded audio by tapping on your notes to listen to the information you captured
• Share your recordings and notes with anyone privately or publicly with 500MB of free online storage for your recorded audio or notes
• USB connector to transfer notes and audio to your Mac or PC
• Audio jack and 3-D Recording Headset for far-field recording

Energizer AP1201 iPhone 4 case

$70

This sleek, protective case can ensure that your loved ones conversations don’t get cut short by adding an additional 4.5 hours of talk time. And the entertainment can continue for hours on end as well, thanks to 7 extra hours of battery for video and Internet.

Targus Lap Chill Mat

$39.99

This dual purpose mat, not only keeps your laptop cool and optimally functional, but will also provides you with a comfortable posture to work on your laptop for hours without getting stressed.

Cableyoyo – Cable Organizer

$6.95

Cableyoyo is an empty spool around which you wrap your existing cord. It will take any cord up to 5mm in diameter, and this covers all low voltage chargers, USB, firewire, data and telephone cables.

Swiss Army Victorinox Secure 8GB

$119

A detachable biometric fingerprint sensor secures your data from loss or theft on the 8GB flash drive. The drive is easily detached for convenience and checking through airport security when the tool itself is checked. A high-output LED provides an extremely bright light. Victorinox Flash Secure includes popular tools that you would expect on a Swiss Army Knife.

Apple iPad (16GB)

The Apple iPad is the best and most well known tablet out there, and arguably the most exciting product of the year.  Thought it won’t replace your computer it is becoming one of the most desired products around.  Keep an eye out for the iPad 2 coming out soon

Starting at $499

Logitech MX Revolution Cordless Laser Mouse (Black)

$152.99

Offers vertical and horizontal scrolling. Scrolling is fluid, you will never have a problem with that. There is also a search feature, set your default search engine and just highlight a word or phrase and let the mouse do the rest. To sum all of the reviews, this mouse is one of the most smartest today.

SanDisk Ultra® Backup 16GB USB Flash Drive

$89.99

SanDisk has introduced the SanDisk Ultra® Backup USB Flash Drive which is the first USB flash drive with a backup button. With three models available: 16GB, 32GB and 64GB, web designers can store lots of files, images, drafts, proposals and more.

Motorola Droid X

$200

• 4.3-inch, 854×480 display
• 8 megapixel camera
• 720p video recording
• 1GHz TI OMAP processor (successor to the chip in the original Droid)
• 8GB internal storage (plus microSD)
• HDMI out
• 720p video
• true multitouch keyboard, with pre-loaded Swype
• Wi-Fi hotspot powers for up to 5 devices.

Fun Stuff

Wallbar Photo Editor’s Wall Art

$69.99

• Sturdy MDF hand cut and painted into fantastic hanging artwork
• Made to resemble a very familiar user-interface toolbar
• Approx 6,7″ x 31.5″ x 0.6″ (17 x 80 x 1.2 cm)

Custom Laptop Skins

$24.99

* Upload a photo
* Add text
* Add cool backgrounds
* Add awesome grapics and change their colors
* The possibilities are endless!

USB G-Gloves

$22

Designed and developed specifically for women.   These amazing new open-end gloves come with a USB chord, that plugs into your laptop of PC and then the gloves comfortably warm your hands while you work.

Pantone Coffee Mugs (Set of 10)

$110

Make every coffee break a colorful collaboration with this set of 10 mugs featuring the original primary colors by PANTONE, the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design and creative industries.

App Magnets

$12.99

These quirky little heavy duty magnets are oh so perfect for your whiteboard. Colorful and shaped like the little App buttons on your iPhone, these 18 magnets are as useful as they are fun.

2010 Holiday Gifts

Apple Timeline Tshirt

$19

It’s easy to forget that Apple is 30 years old. Lets take a minute to remember the 20th Anniversary Mac. With a 250 mhz processor and a 12 inch screen, this was a steal at $7,499. We’ve come a long way.

Periodic Table of Typefaces

$41.65

The vinyl decals are simple to apply to any clean, smooth surface and all decals are easily removable without leaving a sticky residue (not repositionable).

Mac Horizontal Frame

• Horizontal Picture Magnet Frame
• Pictures: 15 x 10 cm
• Window: 13.5 x 8.5 cm
• Frame: 16.8 x 11.8 cm

Browser Sketch Pad

$12.95

Sketch website and UI ideas to your hearts content, also available as iPhone and iPad versions.

Pixel Holiday Notecards (12 cards and envelopes)

$20.40

Cute greeting cards bearing holiday pixel art designs.
12 unique designs.

Wooden Laptop Case

At just over $320 it’s expensive, but it’s beautiful.  Wooden Laptop Case with leather lining and magnetic closing device for Apple MacBook Pro 13,15 and 17 inch.

Unlock Doormat

$49.99

This fun and super geek doormat comes with the famous inscription inspired by iPhone “Slide to Unlock”, nothing better to place in front of your door.

Books and Guides

HTML5 For Web Designers

HTML5 is the longest HTML specification ever written. It is also the most powerful, and in some ways, the most confusing. What do accessible, content-focused standards-based web designers and front-end developers need to know? And how can we harness the power of HTML5 in today’s browsers?

In this brilliant and entertaining user’s guide, Jeremy Keith cuts to the chase, with crisp, clear, practical examples, and his patented twinkle and charm.

Visibone HTML and CSS Wall Charts

$25

do you know all the values for the CSS cursor property? What about all the different attributes you can use with the HTML list tag?  So where do I turn to find out? I could thumb through any number of reference books, or I could just turn around and look at the wall behind me at my Visibone HTML and CSS wall posters with compressed details of almost every fact about CSS and HTML syntax.

Communication Arts

$110/year

Communication Arts magazine is the leading trade journal for visual communications. It showcases the top work in graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography and interactive design.

Thinking With Type

$16.50

“Worthy of adding to your library; it’s essential if you salivate when you look at well-designed and well-chosen type.”

The Web Designer’s Idea Book, Vol. 2: More of the Best Themes, Trends and Styles in Website Design

$19.90

A book to help avoid/remove designer’s block. Full of ideas, fresh and new.

CSS3 for Web Designers

Starting at $9.99

by Dan Cederholm 

From advanced selectors to generated content to the triumphant return of web fonts, and from gradients, shadows, and rounded corners to full-blown animations, CSS3 is a universe of creative possibilities.

Hardboiled Web Design

It’s for people who want to understand why, when and how to use the latest HTML5 and CSS3 technologies in their everyday work. Not tomorrow or next week, but today. If you’re hungry to learn about how the latest technologies and techniques will make your websites and applications more creative, flexible and adaptable, then this is the book for you.

Objectified

$20

Directed by Gary Hustwit (also did the Helvetica documentary), this look into the minds of industrial designers will provide both entertainment and inspiration to any designer.

Photoshop Creative

Photoshop® Creative is the perfect magazine for learning more about Adobe’s outstanding application.

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