Macworld's complete iPod buying guide

This holiday season, which iPod is the right one for you and for your loved ones? Our expert Christopher Breen helps sort out Apple's offerings so you can make the best choice.

Review: Geared for iPhoneIn spite of some flaws -- it can be hard to position pieces and the game is a little picky about when you're allowed to move things -- Geared is a perfectly fine puzzler that satisfies after its too-easy early stages.
iPhone to drive mobile game adoptionApple will drive the game market with the iPhone, according to a survey of 8,000 gamers in North America, Europe and Australia.

Product	Rating
iPod nano, fifth-generation (5G) 8GB
iPod nano, fifth-generation (5G) 16GB
iPod touch, second generation (late 2009) 8GB
iPod classic (late 2009) 160GB
iPod touch, second generation (late 2009) 64GB
iPod touch, second generation (late 2009) 32GB
iPod shuffle, third generation (late 2009) 2GB
iPod shuffle, third generation (late 2009) SE
iPod shuffle, third generation (late 2009) 4GB
iPhone 3GS (32GB)
iPhone 3GS (16GB)
iPhone 3G (8GB)

Macworld's complete iPod buying guide This holiday season, which iPod is the right one for you and for your loved ones? Our expert Christopher Breen helps sort out Apple's offerings so you can make the best choice.
Copy music off your iPod There's nothing worse than losing your iTunes library to a hard drive crash. If you have music on your iPod, you can at least get it back with the right tools.
Outsource your photo scanning projects Scanning all your old photos is a daunting process. Should you use a third-party scanning service can help you migrate old photos from the shoe box to the computer?
Caching iPod touch driving directions You say your iPod touch isn't much good for providing directions while on the road? With a little planning it can be a better navigator.
Head to Head: iPod nano vs. pocket camcorders How well does the new iPod nano's video camera compare to a standard-definition pocket camcorder? Take a look at samples that PC World shot with a nano, a Flip Mino, an iPhone 3GS, and a Kodak Zi8.

Is Spotify the future of music listening? Spotify, hoping to make its way to the U.S. soon, lets you stream music to your computer or iPhone/iPod touch. Will it be worth the wait?
In-app feature could keep more apps on iPhone While Apple's new in-app purchase feature for iPhones is being widely touted as an antipiracy measure, Apple's more overarching motive seems to be that of keeping the iPhone at the development forefront for the coolest new apps for mobile users.
The Macalope Weekly: Money, money, money The Zune HD may be many things, but it's not an iPod touch-killer. Nor is there apparently a way to kill the record industry's aspirations, even with a stake through the heart. And aren't accounting rules a killer?
PC World Review: Zune HD The Microsoft Zune HD is the Zune that PC World's Ginny Mies wishes that Microsoft had released last year. Find out what PC World thinks about this iPod competitor.
Opinion: Apple betrays the iPhone's business hopes Apple's fix of a security hole reveals a long-simmering flaw and makes many iPhones suddenly incompatible with Exchange