Anyone looking for the power of a midsize laptop in a compact 12-inch body has only a few choices, and none to date top Lenovo's excellent ThinkPad X201.

Anyone looking for the power of a midsize laptop in a compact 12-inch body has only a few choices, and none to date top Lenovo's excellent ThinkPad X201.

Maingear's Vybe is the first desktop in our lab with AMD's new six-core Phenom II X6 processor. That chip alone can't save this system from tough competition among mid-ranged gaming PCs, but if the Vybe isn't the best all-around PC at this price, it has some impressive gaming chops. Just be prepared to make a few sacrifices along the way.

The Plantronics Explorer 395 is a great entry-level Bluetooth headset, as long as you stick to quieter environments.

Highly configurable, easy to use metronome for musicians.

Track time you spend on projects.

MySpace social network browser.

Sudoku with animated themes.

Graphical programming environment for music, audio, multimedia.

Lottery number analyzer and prediction tool.

Versatile barcode creator.

Home inventory application.

Organizer and archiver for Apple’s Mail.

Finder addition displays a small address bar on top of Finder windows.

Capture online video, save it to Mac and iPod.

Unicode keyboard layout editor.

Move, resize, zoom your application windows effortlessly.

Retouch photos and enhance portraits quickly and easily.

CMS for building websites, online applications.