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 Ok, I know this is not a Blackberry, but a smartphone, but you get the just of it …

Whatever you do, protect your email address at all cost. Many retails, physicians, lawyers now ask for your email address as another way to contact you. But just like your phone number or even your social security number, this is a way for evil doers to spam you or utilize your email address for evil things. Worse case! send you bad jokes endlessly. If you are one that likes to send out jokes, videos to a group of your friends that don’t know each other, take care to hide their email address by blind CCing or creating a distribution list that hides the addresses. Best case, create a new email address for public use such as newsletters, jokes, posting comments, registering for public web sites, etc. PC Magazine claims that 97% of spam comes from posting comments and registering your email address.

Best way to prevent is to spell it out as a graphic. You can do this best by going to Safe Mail.

Of course there are all sorts of different ways to use protection just google it. Probably, the best way to stay safe, is to abstain or just not do it. I just want to raise awareness.

Some stores opened at midnight. Others at 4 am. Some coaxed shoppers in with gifts and goodies. Me? I will sleep til 8, have my coffee and omelet. Then, I will turn on the computer and pick up a few things, just in time for leftovers. For those that have a gadget guy in mind, here are a few things to ponder …

The WIFI Detector Shirt. Just think. Instead of opening your laptop, all you need to do is walk around. The shirt signals when a WIFI reception is available. You will be the coolest guy in town. This shirt uses battery power glows the decal when a signal is nearby. You can even tell if the signal is 802.11 b or 802.11 g!!

How about a Chargepod? If you are like me, and who isn’t, you have a number of mobile gadets to charge. We have 3 cell phones, bluetooth headsets, Ipods and other MP3 players. Rather than have them scattered around the house in multiple outlets, this lets you organize your charging in an orderly fashion. This is a sweet deal for the gadget person in your life!

All I can say on this next one is … it’s about time. If you are like my wife, you snap a lot photos but take your time synching them to our computer. Then we have to upload to Snapfish. Now, we can bypass the computer. With Eye-FI, you know have a memory card for your camera that can wirelessly upload your pictures to Snapfish or Shutterfly or even Flickr. Pretty snazzy. $99 for a 2 GB card is pretty cheap.

Perhaps the strangest ending to a football game that I have ever seen. To set this up, the Ravens had just kicked a field goal with 20 seconds to go, completing an amazing comeback. And then …