Passport? Check. Suntan lotion? Yep. Camera? Of course. Taking a camera on a vacation is a must in order to immortalize those memories in the sun and sharing them with family and friends. But you don’t get a second chance to capture that moment, so our friends at Nikon Canada have shared their Top 10 tips to taking great vacation pictures.

Microsoft demos real-time voice translation.

What will the future bring? Tech enthusiasts can expect some wild innovations over the next 20 years — such as teleportation (at the particle level), as well as brain implants, quantum computers and blazingly fast computers and networks. Cisco’s chief futurist Dave Evans offers up his 25 tech predictions.

OpenOffice.org is a free alternative to Microsoft Office. What’s new and improved? Is it worth installing on your child’s PC?

We’ve all been there before. You’re calling your TV provider, bank, airline retail giant or government and you’re stuck in “voicemail hell.” You know, that never-ending phone system menu with touchtone or voice-activated prompts that could drive you crazy. Toronto-based start-up Fonolo has a free “deep dialling” solution, and now an iPhone app, too.

Great computer games never die – they’re just reborn at Good ‘Ol Games (www.gog.com), a website devoted to resurrecting classic computer games.