Gear Guide, part two: Gear for your iPod

In the second part of our four-part Winter Gear Guide, we continue to spotlight the accessories that will help you enjoy your Apple products to the utmost. We turn our attention to nine iPod add-ons and accessories that will have your music player singing your praises.

Gear Guide, part one: Gear for your iPhoneWe kick off our holiday Gear Guide with 10 accessories, add-ons, and applications sure to add shine to your iPhone.
Review: Plusmo’s football apps for iPhonePlusmo 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.

Product	Rating
iPod nano, fourth-generation (4G) 16GB
iPod touch, second-generation (2G) 16GB
iPod touch, second-generation (2G) 32GB
iPod nano, fourth-generation (4G) 8GB
iPod touch, second-generation (2G) 8GB
iPod classic, second-generation (2G) 120GB
iPhone 3G (8GB)
iPhone 3G (16GB)
iPod shuffle, second-generation 2GB
iPod shuffle, second-generation 1GB

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.
Macworld Buying Guides: iPods Last year, Apple sold 22.1 million iPods in the three months ending December 31. It’s safe bet that many of those iPods wound up being given as gifts. Maybe you’re planning on giving an iPod of your own this holiday season. Stumped as to which one of the four different kinds of iPods to pick? Don’t worry: we’ve got some helpful advice.
Ripping and playing audiobooks If you buy audiobooks on CD, here's what you need to know to rip them and get them to play correctly in iTunes or on your iPod.
Bugs & Fixes: iPhone connect errors and audiobook crashes Ted Landau looks at two iPhone-related bugs—a connection error in which the iPhone fails to show up in the iTunes Devices list and a crash that can occur when you attempt to play an audiobook.
Revisiting iPod mounting issues You say your iPod refuses to appear in iTunes? Try these troubleshooting techniques.

Shopping at Apple’s Special Deals site Rob Griffiths goes shopping at Apple’s Special Deals web site, and comes away with a not-quite-new Mac and some observations on the Special Deals experience.
Bugs & Fixes: The iPhone app crash champion Ted Landau uses Console to get a list of every recent iPhone crash to find out which application had more crashes than any other. And the winner is...
The iPod: Seven years on Break out the wool and copper, it's the iPod's seventh anniversary!
Steve Jobs holds court Apple’s CEO made a rare appearance on the company’s quarterly conference call, fielding questions about the economy, the iPhone, and Apple’s future. Jason Snell breaks down some of the answers.
Opinion: Apple should reset all App Store reviews Now that Apple has done the right thing by requiring people to purchase an iPhone app before posting a review at the App Store, Peter Cohen thinks the company needs to take the next step: zap all the old reviews from the Store.