When Handmark first suggested I take a look at PocketExpress, I was hesitant. I asked them, why? Handmark’s answer was persuading enough for me to at least try the free download.

Pocket Express for the iPhone is a watering hole of information ranging from news, sports, weather, financial, entertainment, movies, travel, horoscope, and 24/7 customer service. Taping on your topic of choice brings up a selection of articles or choices.

The first thing I tried out was the weather. Having used all the weather applications for the iPhone, I was curious how PocketExpress stacked up to them. Like Apple’s app, Cupertino is the default location. Sweet, huh? Adding your location is as easy as letting the phone use its GPS to do so! You can also type in your address as I did for other spots I like monitoring. This is where problems occurred. When I tried to add Kaiserslautern, Germany (my birth-town), and Incline Village, Nevada (my favorite summer getaway), neither could be found. I ran into this problem for other popular suburban areas and was surprised since even the Apple Weather application found these locations no problem. It looks like Handmark is using weather stations and if a station does not exist in your desired location, you get a big fat Location Not Found. To test this theory out, I added my small town of 900 by hand and it failed. Using the GPS locator worked. When I looked what it attached me to, it was a large city 20 miles north of me.

That aside, the weather section is really nice. It displays a nice two day forecast in sections of day with a large area on the upper most of the screen with current conditions. The bottom contains two locations and a More button for other locations and settings. Truly, the weather section is filled with information that the Apple or even Weather Bug applications don’t offer. Within a few minutes of use of just the weather feature made me want to keep PocketExpress on my iPhone!

I checked out the news next and was again surprised how good it was. The articles were interesting and current. The sports section, too, had great articles as well lending me some insight on my favorite NFL team, the Steelers. Speaking of favorites, you can track your favorite teams (or teams in your division as I did) to get a quick glimpse of scores. MLB is the only other sport you can currently track, but Handmark told SvenOnTech that NHL should hopefully be coming soon.

News, Entertainment, and Finance all present a list of current articles that you can tap to view the full article. Each article is presented in a nice fashion with a thumbnail picture next to the headline. It is very clean and pleasing looking. I found the articles to be very complete and yet short enough that I didn’t find myself wasting away valuable time.

The Movies section, like Weather, will find local theaters using the GPS function. It then lists all near by movie outlets. You check off which ones you frequent or select them all. After that’s done, you tap the movie theater and up comes the listings. Tap on a movie and you’ll find a four star review, genre, cast, director, writer, producer, distributor, website, release date, as well as a synopsis. If the theater supports the option, you can even purchase tickets online. The movie section also gives information about each theater including address and phone number. Like all things iPhone, you can tap on the address to send it to Google Maps or tap the phone number to give the theater a call. Nice.

Horoscope gives you a Birthday section and sections for various signs. Each sign will have a short horoscope for the day.

Travel launches a web app but should be included locally into PocketExpress soon. Assist is for questions and support using the application.

A nice thing PocketExpress does is remember where you last were. So if I had the weather section open and I go to another program and come back to PocketExpress later, there’s the weather. If sports scores was last looked at, it’ll come back when I next open PocketExpress. I like that a lot.

Overall, PocketExpress offers a lot of nice features in one place. Since it is free, it is ad driven, but the ads are desecrate and not in the way. No word if a Pro version is coming but, again, it’s a great application for the price.

Looking for that perfect laptop stand? Need something light and small for your computer bag? Want something that looks cool, too? Versatile? Innovative? Mmm, I think we gotcha covered, mate.

SvenOnTech just reviewed the new Innovative Cricket and this thing easily hopped in and out of our travel bag. We easily set it up to hold our first-generation MacBook Pro and they feel in love with each other. Oops, are we giving away the review? Sorry.

Read the review, kick the tires, and see what you think. You might find yourself adding one of these to your laptop bag real soon.

We all hear it from our wives or girlfriends, “Can’t you make me look better? Take out my blemish. Cover my zits. Make me look thinner.” It goes on and on and anyone that works in PhotoShop knows how much time these requests take. So in the end, we just don’t do them. With Alien Skin’s Image Doctor 2, however, you’ll be able to two out of the three of the requests in no time at all.

Graphic artist and just all around nice guy, Roger Hall has taken the time to learn Image Doctor 2 and use it and abuse it. He used his wife and two old pictures as examples for his review and you can read the results of it.

Anyone that has a collection of old photos or would like to touch up photos of model work quickly and efficiently, will want to take a look at Roger at to say about Image Doctor 2.

We all have them: lists. We all need to check ‘em off. We all have iPhones. Mmm, okay, all of us cool people. But seriously, if you are an iPhone/iPod Touch user with the need to keep better track of your lists and you’re not apt to just buy away on the App Store to find the best one, then you may want to read our latest review of SplashShopper.

The popular list program that has graced BlackBerrys, Palms, and Windows Mobile devices, as well as desktops, for some time now comes to the Apple made smartphone! If you were a fan of it on those platforms or you’ve never even heard of this application (not sure how that’s possible), then you need — no must — read this review before making your purchase. Heck, even if you’ve bought a list application, still read this. You may ditch it for SplashShopper.

Don’t you just love those smug Mac users talking about how easy it was for them to create a photobook of their latest vacation and how they did it in like, “2 minutes; that’s it!”? I know, you secretly wished you had a Mac so you too could be sporting on the iPhoto but you’re stuck with a PC. Well, don’t worry, ’cause you don’t have to wait an eternity for Microsoft to make a good iPhone clone because Rocketlife did it for them.

Rocketlife is an online photo processor that lets you make calendars, cups, posters, and, yes, photobooks. With just some of your photos, Internet Explorer, a broadband connection, and some creativity, Rocketlife is going to set you up with one sweet photobook…in just minutes. Now you can be like our reviewer, Rebecca, and take your sweet time to nail down that awesome custom look if you want, but it’s not required. Either way, Rocketlife offers a pretty impressive option to iPhoto-wishing PC users to use. Take a look at Rebecca had to say in her review. You may never look at iPhoto again!

Does a GPS with a constant connection to the Internet make it the best way to travel in your car? Can it find the lowest gas prices, the nearest Starbucks, an ATM near your friends home, and the best pizza joint in town? Will it show you how to get to work quicker than you have ever made it before IN traffic? Does the volume setting of 11 make it that much better than anything else available?

Yes, we know so many questions to be answered but we think we do a pretty good job of answering those and even more with the newest craze hitting cars across the country in this new GPS unit. An Internet enabled GPS device that taps into Yahoo! Local and lets you send your addresses from within your web browser on your computer to your Dash Express sitting silently on your, um, dash.

Now, is it all worth it? Read on.

So you’ve got to go somewhere this Labor Day weekend, huh? Looking for the right GPS to take you there? But you want one with some sweet swag? Easy to use? Maybe even something the “other guys” don’t have? But, its got to be a good brand. Well, the TomTom GO 930 may be your catch. With address voice input, Bluetooth speakerphone, Advanced Lane Guidance, traffic updates, and Mr. T to tell you where to turn, we couldn’t think of another GPS to suggest (until our next review, maybe.)

Before you shove off to your long weekend, we suggest reading the long and full-of-meat review of the TomTom GO 930. If you don’t have too much time, like all of our reviews, you can read The Bottom Line and the Overview for the quickie. But do at least print it out and read it sometime this weekend. It took us a long time to write.

Well, this iPhone lovin’ guy took a hold of the latest BlackBerry and gave it a spin. Yes, yes, I kept thinking, ‘How does this compare to the iPhone,’ in nearly every thing I did with it and funny to say, in some things, it faired better than the Apple-made phone. Granted, in others it didn’t (man, that web browser is plain horrible,) but truth is, not everyone wants an iPhone. Some people want Cut-n-Paste on their smartphone.

So I trekked with the Curve for a couple of weeks, used it, played with it, snapped photos with it, let it guide me to destinations, and even talked on it. Many things surprised me about it and I must say, I was really impressed with it. It is without a doubt a definite replacement for all my Windows Mobile phones I used in the past, but my iPhone? Mmm, you’ll have to read the review for that answer.

If you’re in the market for a desktop holder for your laptop, you will want to read our just released review on the Lapworks Attaché Laptop Desk. With two built-in fans and four USB ports, the Attaché Laptop Desk does more than just keep your ergonomics correct.

See what we thought about this unit and if it’s worth your $49 or not.

We’ve seen a lot of cases for our beloved iPhone and we’ve seen little that catches our fancy. Well, that’s changed, friends, and now we want all you iPhone users to know that, yes, there is a great case our pouch out there for you. Having used the pouch for nearly two months and the case just as long, we are certain of the quality and build of these cases. Sena, basically, is the only way to go, folks. Read why we are so certain of this in our review.