• Bad Apple: Five Classic Apple Marketing Tactics That Lock You In

  
  When you buy an Apple device, you're often locked in to buying other Apple products that are compatible with it. Here are five examples, and some advice on what to do. Oh, wait--there's nothing you can do.

• Motorola's Droid May Be a Boon for iPhone Owners

  
  "The more platforms, the merrier," says Gartner analyst. "Competition is a good thing."
• The PC World 100: Best Products of 2009
• A $99 8GB iPhone 3GS to Kill the Motorola Droid?
• Droid vs. Pre vs. iPhone: A Cost of Ownership Reality Check
• Beatles Due Soon on USB -- But Not From Apple
• Apple Kills Hackintosh Netbooks with Snow Leopard Update
• Apple iTunes TV Pitch: Another Nail in Cable's Coffin
• First Look: Verizon Droid with Google Maps GPS
• iPhone App Store Hits 100k Apps: A Look Back

Apple How-Tos

• How to Sync iTunes with Your Non-iPod Player You don't have to lose your painstakingly crafted iTunes playlists if you move to a non-Apple player.
• Add Folder Monitoring to iTunes 9 Can you believe it?! iTunes 9 still doesn't watch folders for new music! Well, at least there's that old standby: iTunes Folder Watch.
• Find Free Apps for Your iPhone Believe it or not, some iPhone and iPod Touch apps go from fee to free. Here's an easy way to find them.
• No App Store, No Cry: Great Apps You'll Get Only By Jailbreaking Your iPhone There truly is an app for just about everything on the iPhone. Well, everything that Apple approves of anyway. Here are some of the best apps you'll never see on the App Store.
• Using a Mobile Phone Overseas Follow these tips to save money when you travel abroad with your Apple iPhone or other mobile phone.

Apple News

• iPhone App Store Hits 100K, Leaves Others in the Dust The iPhone may soon be getting stiffer competition from upcoming products like the Motorola Droid, but one area where Apple's commanding lead seems untouchable is its mobile app store.
• Apple Store Announces Reserve And Pick Up Program For you pre-Thanksgiving shoppers, the Apple retail store on Friday announced a way to get a jump on your holiday list. The Reserve And Pick Up option will let...
• XGestures Updated for Snow Leopard Brian Kendall has released an updated version of xGestures for Snow Leopard, which allows you to drive your Mac with "mouse gestures"--a particular combination...
• Add More Effects to Photo Booth and IChat As you know, Photo Booth includes a collection of image-altering effects you can use to distort your photos; just click the Effects button to see the collection...
• Upgrade the Mac Mini in Six Minutes I've upgraded quite a few Mac minis over the past several years, from the original 2005 model to the latest version, released last week, and some in between...

Apple Playing in PCW Video

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  A Look at Apple's Multi-Touch Magic Mouse Apple's newest input device, the Magic Mouse, connects through Bluetooth and recognizes multi-touch gestures.
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  Apple iPod Nano's Video Capabilities: A Closer Look Everyone raves about the addition of a video camera to the iPod Nano, but is it really that impressive?
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  Microsoft Zune HD Features Solid Improvements The Zune HD marks a huge improvement from last year's model in speed, usability, video quality, and design.

Apple Slideshows

• Mac OS X Snow Leopard: New Bells and Whistles Explained An in-depth visual tour of the new Mac OS features that every user will want to know about.

Apple Reviews

• Introducing Speedmark 6 Back in August, Apple entered the era of Snow Leopard. Today, Macworld's Speedmark test suite enters the Snow Leopard's den.
• Studio One Pro 1.0.1 Recording music is fun, rewarding, and highly creative. But the process of recording can be amazingly technical: you might have cables running everywhere...
• 21.5- and 27-inch IMacs (Late 2009) Featuring bigger and better screens and shiny new mice, the physical changes to the aluminum iMac in this update are the most dramatic since it was introduced...
• IMac (Late 2009) Benchmarks Apple recently updated its popular iMac line of desktop computers to include larger screens, more standard memory and bigger hard drives. Three of the four new...
• Mac Mini (Late 2009) Back in March, when I reviewed the previous Mac mini models--officially called the Mac mini (Early 2009)--Apple's smallest desktop computer had just received a...