iTunes Store and DRM-free music: What you need to know

Apple announced it would drop digital rights managements from all iTunes Store music—here's what you need to know to make sense of the news.

Macworld Expo Best of Show 2009Macworld's picks for the best products at 2009's Macworld Expo.
Expo: Apple introduces iLife '09Apple has introduced a new version of its iLife application suite, including iPhoto '09.

Review: Byline for iPhone Subway commuters and frequent flyers will rejoice at Byline’s convenience in the absence of connectivity, as the newsreader app syncs with Google’s RSS reader and lets you read your favorite feeds offline.
Review: South Park: Imaginationland for iPhone This game, based on the Emmy-winning episode of the long-running TV series, is enjoyable fun, but there’s a hit or miss factor. South Park fans may love the game while others will probably look elsewhere for their fill of fun.
Review: Vicinity for iPhone The latest app to exploit the location features on your iPhone or iPod touch to find nearby services, amenities, and businesses, Vicinity’s utility is limited by a restricted range and shoddy sources.
Review: ESPN Cameraman for iPhone In ESPN Cameraman, you’ve got to find five differences between two similar images of sporting events supplied by the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader in Sports. It’s a fun—though all-too-repetitive—casual game for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Review: Fring for iPhone Fring integrates your buddy lists from various chat and communication platforms into one interface; it also brings Voice over IP to the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s a good app, with a few notable drawbacks that are barriers to greatness.

Quickly reveal obscured desktop icons Learn how to quickly reveal icons that have been obscured after moving your dock to the side of the screen.
Sync multiple iPods to one Mac Using OS X's Shared user folder, you can shared one iTunes library with multiple users on one Mac.
A fix for mute Keynote exports You've recorded a narration track for your Keynote presentation and exported it to QuickTime yet no audio. Here's a fix.
Group movies into folders on Apple TV Learn a simple trick to organize your movies into folders on your Apple TV
Bugs & Fixes: Dealing with iCal and Entourage duplicates If you sync Entourage calendar appointments with your iPhone or MobileMe account, you might notice duplicate entries popping up. Ted Landau has a procedure for eradicating unwanted copies with a minimum of fuss.

Expo: DRM-free announcement is music to consumers' ears While Mac fans may be agog over new version of iPhoto and iMovie, Dan Moren thinks the biggest news of Phil Schiller's keynotes was about the iTunes Store.
The history of the Mac, told by those who were there Rob Griffiths takes a look at Welcome to Macintosh, a feature-length film that examines the history of the Apple and the Mac by talking to those who were there.
The amazing vanishing Mac desktop machine Rob Griffiths laments the lack of any cool new hardware revelations in the Macworld Expo 2009 keynote.
Upgrading to iTunes Plus: Why the hassle? Excited about Tuesday’s news that all the tracks in the iTunes Store will soon be DRM-free? It would be more exciting if upgrading your existing library to DRM-free tracks wasn’t such a hassle, Kirk McElhearn contends.
Bar fight: Android versus iPhone Two mobile devices square off in a San Francisco bar. But only one emerges victorious.