The iPod Touch is a great product with lots to offer, but its premium price tag and limited capacity should give some shoppers pause. Don't assume that Apple's most expensive iPod is the best solution for your needs. If you're planning on watching a lot of video, high-capacity products like the iPod Classic or Archos 605 WiFi will allow you to load entire seasons of your favorite TV shows

Done? Great. That pretty well sums up the current 1GB and 2GB iPod shuffles. Here are the two differences between the previous shuffle and the new 2GB model.

Your iPod works easily enough as a pocket media player, but things get a bit more complicated when turning it into a living-room entertainment device. Sure, you could use a dock and connection cable to plug your iPod directly into your stereo, but a wire dangling around your living looks tacky-and is inconvenient-when all your other devices are controlled remotely. You could purchase one of the many wireless iPod remote controls out there, but the big drawback with most remotes is the inability to view and use your iPod's screen and menus from across the room. This is where Belkin's TuneStage II , a Bluetooth receiver/transmitter, comes in handy. (We reviewed the original TuneStage back in October 2005.)

Waking up, if I may paraphrase, is hard to do. When you work out of your home like I do, that's doubly true. What's the motivation of rolling out of bed when it's only a two- or three-foot commute to the office? In the past few weeks, my only real reason for getting up at all has been that I've been testing iPod clock-radios, among them the Macally TunePro .

As the number of iPod speaker systems on the market increases, seemingly exponentially, some companies have attempted to stand out from the crowd by focusing on design and materials. Vers Audio is one such company, and the Vers 2x , its first offering, successfully employs such an approach.

Alarm clocks, for many people, are as integral to their lives as their mobile phones and computers. After all, if you're late to work everyday, what's the good of all the other fancy gadgets you have? Though RCA's RP5500i may not be the most eye-catching iPod alarm clock around, it's stocked with features, easy to use, and less expensive than many competitors.

I spent many an hour in my local video game arcade as a teen plugging quarters into Pole Position. I even remember buying the game for my ColecoVision console at some point around 1984 or so. So when Namco released Pole Position Remix for the iPod on the iTunes Store, I was momentarily elated. Then I tried it, and had my hopes dashed.

After my poor experience with the iPod version of Sonic the Hedgehog, I wasn't holding out a lot of hope for Hudson Soft's introduction of its intrepid character Bomberman on the iPod. But as it turns out, the developer has done a fine conversion, bringing this classic video game character to a new platform-specifically, fifth-generation iPods, third-generation iPod nanos and iPod classics.

Few games have had the enduring popularity and genre-defining quality of Sonic the Hedgehog. A mascot for Sega ever since his debut in the early 1990s, Sonic has spawned a legion of spinoffs and sequels, and remains a popular choice for console gamers to this day. Now he's back in his original glory on the iPod.

PopCap Games has struck casual gaming gold with Peggle. It's a fun arcade-style game that borrows a bit from pinball, a bit from the Japanese game pachinko, and a bit from Breakout. The combination is an incredibly addictive concept lets you wile away hours.