Sharky's Notebook

The AVADirect Custom Gaming PC is one of those technological terrors that exists only to smoke benchmark tests and humiliate rivals on the game grid.

If you need an easy way to control a PC or PC remotely, LogMeIn is a decent choice.

Free, and full of features, this boot-management software is an essential for any advanced Windows user.

The Lenovo ThinkPad T410s is hands down the lightest 14-inch business laptop in the market.

The BlueAnt Q2 puts the company's voice control software to excellent use, and delivers clear sound quality and comfort over the long haul.

This outstanding Unified Communications offering for small and medium business is a serious virtual alternative to the traditional PBX system.

JH Audio's JH16 Pro custom-molded earphones sound sublime, but they cost a small fortune.

A fully hosted alternative to building your own Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint servers, HyperOffice is feature-rich, but it has a few minor interface glitches that need to be worked out.

The Asus N82Jv-X1 is a mainstream laptop capable of many things, thanks to a fast Core i5 processor and top-tier Nvidia chipset.

Faster searches, more structured content, and lots of social media hooks make Xobni the perfect Outlook companion.

The Sierra Wireless 250U modem is the best option to hook an individual laptop up to Sprint's 3G and 4G networks.

The affordable Dell Latitude E5510 business laptop comes complete with a durable frame, excellent user experience, and the performance you would expect from a Latitude.

The Canon CanoScan 9000F Film and Negative Scanner is hard to beat for fast, high-quality scans of photographic prints.

BitDefender's antivirus comes with tons of extras that most vendors reserve for their full suite. It's amazingly configurable, but its test scores were disappointing.

BitDefender Total Security 2011 has a lot to offer, but the competition offers better antivirus and firewall.

The Dish Network ViP922 offers a top-notch user experience and a robust feature set that you're unlikely to find in many cable company DVRs. And built-in Slingbox capability means you can watch programming from anywhere in the world.

Social networking and IM features make this app stand out from the pack, but the voice calls could use improvement.

The experts at FantasyStrategies.com, ESPN, and Footballguys.com gave us great advice on how to make a Value Based Drafting spreadsheet that'll help you pick the best team for your league, no matter what scoring or stats systems it uses.

Kaspersky's 2011 antivirus gets high marks from all the independent labs but it didn't score as well as expected in my hands-on tests.

Organization comes in a sleek design with the Empire Laptop Messenger Bag.