The 24th Annual Editors’ Choice Awards

Every year, Macworld editors select the Mac hardware and software that met our standards for quality, innovation, value, and usability. This year, we found 20 products worthy of our annual Editors’ Choice honors.

Macworld Expo & Gear Guide We devote a major portion of this episode to Macworld’s Gear Guide, the annual, product-packed feature that serves as a handy reference of desirable holiday gifts. We also have a discussion of the season’s other highlight: Macworld Conference & Expo.
Review: Flick Fishing for iPhoneThe fishing game from Freeverse combines Wii-style gameplay with a ridiculously reasonable price.

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.

Eddy Awards: Where’s Apple? Apple normally dominates our annual awards for our favorite hardware and software products. This year, it captured only one award. Dan Miller explains why.
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.

Wed Nov 12 09:21:18 PST 2008 by Macworld
Thinking outside the Apple TV with Boxee
Thu Dec 04 08:00:03 PST 2008 by Macworld
The Boxee rebellion
Thu Nov 27 06:42:09 PST 2008 by insomniac91
iTunes Questions
Tue Dec 02 10:00:02 PST 2008 by Macworld
Trimming your music tracks
Tue Dec 02 02:49:01 PST 2008 by wctobler
Making a Playlist for a Garmin GPS
Mon Apr 07 09:20:36 PDT 2008 by cgoldin
Static on iTunes
Tue Oct 28 11:13:51 PDT 2008 by Macworld
MP3 shopping tips
Sun Nov 30 14:21:32 PST 2008 by Tuareg
iTunes Store TV Shows - upgrade from SD to HD?