Gear Guide, part four: Gear for the desktop

A Mac on your desk gives you a pretty powerful workstation-but also a pretty barren one. The products in the final installment of our Gear Guide can help spruce up your workspace while also helping you get more creative, store more data, and finish more work.

Gear Guide, part three: Gear for the mobileGetting up and going can be complex in the digital age. But don’t fret-in the third part of our Winter Gear Guide, we’ve got you covered with mobile gear that will keep you connected, organized, and powered up.
Hands on with an Eee PC netbookApple doesn’t offer a netbook and—if the comments of its executives are to be believed—has no plans to do so. Peter Cohen wondered what Mac users might be missing out on, so he tested an Eee PC from Asus.

Review: Plusmo’s football apps for iPhone Plusmo offers a pair of applications for following both pro and college football on your iPhone or iPod touch. Pro Football Live has seen substantial improvements since an inauspicious debut, but College Football Live still suffers from some serious flaws.
Review: World Wiki Plus for iPhone Tech Lumina’s version of the CIA Factbook is an inexpensive and better alternative to competing products from the App Store.
Review: WriteRoom for iPhone If you find yourself using your iPhone or iPod touch as a replacement for your ideas notebook and don’t care for the devices’ included Notes app, WriteRoom is well worth its $5 price tag for the ease of copying documents to and from your mobile device.
Review: MindNode Pro 1.0.3 If you find linear note-taking limited and PowerPoint brainstorming painful, MindNode Pro 1.0.3 is a straightforward and pain-free point of entry into the world of mind mapping.
Review: Billy Frontier for iPhone Despite some frustrations with gameplay, Billy Frontier stands out for great graphics and sound. It’s a fun game you can enjoy for a few minutes at a time as well as for longer gaming sessions.

Successfully attaching photos to email Yes, you can so email photos to Windows users without those photos being embedded in the message with no way to extract them.
Serve local web pages via name not IP number Learn how to serve web pages locally via name instead of IP address.
Bugs & Fixes: Blurry photos after updating to iPhone 2.2 Ted Landau looks at a reported bug with the iPhone 2.2 software update in which some images received e-mail attachments appear blurry or fuzzy.
Update: The paperless office Last year, Joe Kissell showed you how to eliminate almost all your office paper, using a scanner and some AppleScripts. Now he's updated those scripts so they're compatible with the latest versions of Adobe Acrobat.
9 iPhone business apps Need to get real work done on your iPhone? Bill Wiecking suggests nine iPhones apps to enhance your productivity on the road.

PC World: Can Apple save the netbook? With the cost of netbook models creeping upward, could Apple make a splash in the ultra-portable market? PC World’s Neil McAllister contemplates Apple’s rumored entry into the world of netbooks.
Opinion: iPhone 2.2 update doesn't fix key business flaws The latest iPhone OS update still doesn't address the gaps in what business users need from the iPhone.
Psystar case reveals Apple's shaky e-mail retention policy Psystar’s antitrust claims against Apple may have been dismissed, but the Industry Standard says the court filings in the case reveal a lackadaisical attitude toward e-mail and document retention policies at Apple.
Why developers prefer Macs Developers are taking advantage of virtualization on Intel-based Macs to test on multiple operating systems.
The buzz at a Wrath of the Lich King launch party Equipped with a detached air of superiority and the bitterness that can only come with covering Mac gaming, Chris Holt entered the fray at a GameStop party to celebrate the release of the new World of Warcraft expansion pack, The Wrath of the Lich King.