A Word on gfxBoost

I’m sure all of our frequent readers saw Aaron’s posting the other day on Chainfire’s release of GfxBoost. I just want to take a second to explain what Chainfire is doing and why we all need to thank him. First off, Chainfire is legendary for his work on the Kaiser/Tilt drivers so he has a … Read more

Throttle Lock 3D Coming

Throttle Lock is a very popular app to lock your phone from accidental key presses (with pattern based unlocking as well as haptic feedback). Its developer APBilbo has provided a preview of the next release (expected within a week) that includes a really neat 3D g-sensor effect. Just take a look at this video to … Read more

Create a Cheap Car Dock

We already went through how to make a desktop cradle for a penny but let’s move on to cars. Mabru2001 from PPCGeeks has provided some photos and a step-by-step guide on how to make an inexpensive car dock for the Fuze/Touch Pro. Now it’s properly mounted and easy to access. It requires a little manual … Read more

The First Palm Pre Review

PhoneNews was able to get their hands on a Palm Pre and have provided a full review of it. They like the fact that the Pre comes loaded with Sprint TV and Music Store and other Sprint customizations (the things we generally call ‘bloat’ and try to remove from AT&T). They note that copying to … Read more

Sprint Touch Pro 2 Spotted and Dated

User bigchico68 of SprintUsers forums just had some face time with the Sprint variant of the Touch Pro 2 and he shared some photos. With respect to the Touch Pro 2 he said I just got visual confirmation of the Touch Pro 2. It is awesome I got to play with it. It will be … Read more

A Browser That Reads Sites To You

I was toying around with a browser called Nemonika which actually reads web sites out loud to you. Before we go too far, let me just say this is a news article and not a recommendation to download it. Why? Well the voice is very synthesized and it reads everything on the pages from the … Read more

SensorScroll Updated

We normally avoid incremental updates to apps but SensorScroll has a sweet spot in my heart…and this is more than an incremental update. This is the application that lets you use the dpad scroll wheel to scroll in all applications (and not just the handful that the Fuze/Diamond scroll with out of the box). Here … Read more

5×5 – Simple Addictive Game

The author Stephj describes 5×5 as follows: The object of the game is to light up or knock out all the lights in a 5×5 grid. When a square is selected that square and its four immediate neighbors, above, below, and to each side invert. There is no wraparound. The object of the game is … Read more

Windows/iPhone Smack Down

We all know the iPhone and Windows Mobile have their fanboys and today there was a showdown of sorts. You probably all know TestFreaks.com which Kristofer Brozio (who contributes to this site as well) is the editor of (and if you don’t know Test Freaks you really should since it’s an incredible site) and in … Read more

Didiom Revisited

I just received an email that Didom has undergone some updates. It was then that I realized that aside from a brief mention when going through the iPhone ‘app for that’ commercials we haven’t really discussed Didiom. Put simply, Didiom is an application that lets you access your PC’s music library and stream that music … Read more

Install Express – A Better Way To Install Apps

There are lots of reasons to install a series of apps at a time. For some it’s because they are hooked on flashing. For others they are forced to hard reset and just want to have all of their apps reloaded. And for others they are just lazy and wait for a lot of apps … Read more