So what’s a good game you ask for the iPhone or iPod touch? You know, something that’ll keep you happy for weeks to come and not give you buyers remorse just hours later? Well, we just reviewed a game that may fit that description and keep you entertained for hours if not weeks and weeks.

I played Cronk for a good few weeks and, well, read the review and see what happened after some game play.

If you’re in need for some protection on your spiffy new iPod Classic, or any other personal electronic device, but don’t want a large bulk case and don’t really have much faith in a pouch, then you may wish to look at InvisibleShield. We reviewed BodyGuardz, a similar product, for the iPhone two months ago and this review makes for a good side-by-side look at two products with the same purpose.

Out of the gates, we like the InvisibleShield but it did suffer from some irritating attributes. There’s no deal-killer here but just the same, read the review and make your own choice as to if this is the one for you.

Having been a Parallels user from pretty much day one all the way back to my MacBook Pro Rev. 0, VMWare Fusion came too late to get on my MacBook Pro. But as any good reviewer should do, I tested the competition and put it through the paces in the past month. Surprise, surprise, to be sure Goymer Pyle! I was impressed with many things from Fusion and I think those sitting on the fence, or sitting well within the grass on Parallels front lawn, might be interesting in reading this review. Take a look.

Contour, known best for its iPhone and iPod cases, has taken a dive into the Bluetooth headset market. It calls its super cool looking hands-free accessory Metal. One look at it and it’s easy to guess why.

We took the slim gum-sized headset for a test to let you know if Contour put the pedal to the Metal. It sure stuffs the box with lots of accessories and when you see how you charge this unit, you’ll smile. We did.

Read the review and see if this Metal is your style.

Dude, looking for a sweet deal on some groovy headphones? You know, bad economy but you gots to have your head covered with something for them ears? Cash low but tunes need to be high? Ya, we gottcha back, homie.

We just put the review for the iFrogz Custom Fallouts up. Good, round, sounding headphones for your iPhone, iPod, or computer. Heck, plug ‘em into your Denon and enjoy.

Okay, no more playing, go read the review and see if you want to nuke your old pair of headphones and enjoy some Fallouts today.

I don’t get how Apple gets people will pay $80 for a cradle for the 3G iPhone. Stupid, stupid, stupid! BUT, if you’re desperate, ya, then you’ll do it. But guess what? You don’t have to be. There is a choice!

Wireless Ground sent us a cradle that is only $23 (fall sale)! We used it, abused it, and loved it. It’s an easy job and it doesn’t have to cost and arm and a leg to make happen, folks.

Take a look at the full review on this cradle and then nab it before the sale ends!

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.