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• In-Flight Wi-Fi Explained An interview with Aircell's Niels Steenstrup on PC World Podcast Episode 57.
• Parlay Your Photos Into Holiday Cards and Calendars Use image-editing software and Websites to turn your digital photos into handcrafted greeting cards and other holiday gifts.
• Best Buy Movie Downloads: Is the Death of the DVD Nigh? The emergence of multimedia niceties such as Windows 7’s Internet TV and home networking standards such as DLNA 1.5 are starting to make streaming video all the more appealing.
• Sony Optical Drives May Violate Antitrust Laws Sony disclosed Monday that its Optiarc division in the US is under investigation by the Justice Department for possible antitrust violations that may involve price-fixing.
• Top Storage Devices in the PC World 100 We saw all kinds of roomy and speedy drives this year. Here are our top picks.
• The PC World 100: Best Products of 2009 A laptop that recharges wirelessly, a CPU that leaves the competition in the dust, and a top pick that's changing the face of computing--these are just three of the items in our PC World Top 100 list of the best products of the year.
• Is Apple's Next Move Blu-Ray? Nestled amid the slew of recent announcements is a change that may hint of things to come.
• Are DVDs Nearing the End? The Netflix CEO's comment about a jump in streaming raises questions about DVD's reign and whether media matters.
• Blu-ray: 3 Reasons the Winner is an Also-Ran Sony may have won the standards battle against HD, but the war may not be over because it isn't the victor yet.
• LG Electronics WH08LS20 Blu-ray Burner The LG WH08LS20 is a nice Blu-ray burner with great software, but its CD/DVD performance is a tad off.
• Buffalo Technology BR-816SU2 External Blu-ray Burner This very fast external Blu-ray burner has a competent but older software bundle.
• Walk-through: Google Fast Flip Brings 'Magazine' Metaphor to News Browsing Google's news reader uses static page images to display news articles instantly. Whether it's really a faster way to read news is open to debate. Here's a short guided tour of the new approach.
• More to Say? Forget Twitter — Prattle on (and on) at Woofer As the opposite of Twitter, new site requires 1,400-character minimum.
• 7 Backup Strategies for Your Data, Multimedia, and System Files Nobody likes backing up, but one day, it’ll save your bacon. Here are the most efficient methods of protecting your stuff, no matter what your situation.
• Apple Would be Smart to Pick Blu-ray, Analyst Says Adding Blu-ray to the next model of iMacs would cost initially but would pay off big for Apple, analyst says.
• Judge Rules Against RealDVD Movie Copying Software RealNetworks lost a key ruling in a case over its RealDVD software, which lets users copy DVD movies to their computer.
• Toshiba Planning Blu-ray Disc Players, Laptops UPDATE: Toshiba is planning to launch players and laptops with support for Blu-ray Disc later this year, it said Monday.
• Top 10 Must-Have iPhone Apps for Multimedia Junkies Here are the best apps for turning your iPhone into a time-killing hub. Whether you want to stream your music collection to your iPhone or take great pictures in low light, we have just the right app.
• You Must Obey: The Unwritten Laws of Technology "Fix a computer for a friend or family member, and you'll be tech support for life." This is but one of 35 immutable laws of technology that we've identified and recorded for posterity. There will be a test.
• VLC Video Player's New DVD-Copying Feature Could Run Afoul of the MPAA Has the VLC video player gone too far by allowing you to record encrypted DVDs?
• Apple's MacBook Strategy: Optical is Over Analysis: SD should be arriving on the MacBook Air and the regular MacBook in the next updates — and it might replace the DVD drive on the next MacBook.
• Can't Play DVDs Rommel asked the Answer Line forum why DVD movies won't play on his XP PC
• The Computer Hardware Hall of Fame From mainframes and minis to PCs and PDAs, our picks for the greatest, most enduring computer hardware of all time.
• Digitize All of Your Old Media Back up a lifetime of memories to digital media so they'll be able to withstand the test of time.
• Gmail Labs: 5 Best and 5 Worst Features The new integrated Google Search option in Gmail Labs may prove handy. Here are 5 cool (and 5 crummy) features already in Gmail Labs.