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• Tech Sanity Check

  Five future technologies I can't wait for

  If you think the past two decades have been amazing for tech, wait until you see what's next. See the five hottest technologies that are on the way.

  • Top trends of CES 2012: Geek pundits speak out
  • Ultrabooks: A new era for PCs or Wintel innovation bankruptcy?
  • Windows Phone: The Hail Mary pass is now in the air
  • Tablets: What Amazon and Apple know that all the CES tablet peddlers are still missing

• Career Management

  Friday rant: Social media, leave me alone

  In this Friday rant, Toni Bowers talks about why she is sick and tired of social media.

  • Infographic: Cost of a bad hire
  • Should women act like men to get ahead?
  • 2012: Developers focusing on mobile development and the cloud
  • The case of anonymity in social media

• TR Dojo

  Video: TR Dojo bloopers for 2011

  From noisy co-workers and soda machines to flubbed lines and bad attempts at humor, Bill Detwiler shares the TR Dojo 2011 blooper reel.

  • Motorola Droid Razr Teardown: Better hardware should anger Bionic buyers
  • Amazon Kindle Touch (2011) teardown: Replaceable battery, Neonode touch screen
  • Five dangerous and often overlooked IT security risks
  • Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet teardown: Upgraded, improved Nook Color

• Cracking Open

  New Asus Transformer Prime comes complete with previous owner's personal info

  Always wipe gadgets before returning them. Bill Detwiler shares a cautionary tale and steps for wiping iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7 devices.

  • Nokia Lumia 800 Teardown: Skip it, wait for the Lumia 900
  • Motorola Xyboard 10.1 Teardown: Overpriced, soon to be outdated
  • Ultrabooks cheat sheet cuts through the hype
  • G-Form Extreme Sleeve protects iPad from dropped bowling ball

• 10 Things

  10 things IT pros do that lead to burnout

  Stress, exhaustion, health problems, poor job performance, apathy -- all these can be yours if you commit a few career sins and get burned out.

  • 10 problems with outsourcing IT
  • 10 must-have Android apps (revisited)
  • 10 skills for developers to focus on in 2012
  • The 10 dumbest tech predictions for 2012

• Five Apps

  Five Windows 7 gadgets worth sharing with your users

  Gadgets offer a simple, friendly way to execute all sorts of tasks -- perfect for nontechnical users (and often handy for power users, too).

  • Five apps to hit the ground running with your new Android tablet
  • Five GPS apps to help you get where you're going (for cheap)
  • Five apps for crapware cleanup
  • Five apps to help you clean up your Android device