My experience with HTC Hero has been great so far. I’ve been playing with it for a month now, trying out new applications and features to make it more productive and useful. Out of 87 apps I have on my phone, around 35 apps are worth reviewing which I’ll be doing them all in the next few days. The one I’m going to do today is a metal detector app for Android phones. Digital Compass isn’t the only app that makes use of HTC G1, Dream and Hero’s built-in magnetometer. Metal Detector is another cool app that uses the magnetometer and really works as a metal detector. The [...]

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Most people go for the big apps when switching to Linux, and for good reason: they are easy to find, usually very polished, often updated, and there’s a lot of online documentation for them. What if you’re not looking for the most popular, but instead the best app for you? Below are 25 excellent, high-quality Linux apps that go neglected far more often than they should be. Some are popular amongst those who have been at the Linux game for awhile, and others have become a staple of certain distros while remaining relatively unknown by users of different distros. No matter the reason [...]

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Apple and/or AT&T are blocking the Official Google Voice Application for the iPhone from their App Store as well as pulled some unofficial Google Voice apps that were previously approved! This is a bold move that many iPhone users feared because it offered free incoming and outgoing text messages. There are still Official Google Voice Apps for Blackberries and Androids… but for the immediate future, iPhones are SOL! Earlier today we learned that Apple had begun to pull all Google Voice-enabled applications from the App Store, citing the fact that they “duplicate features that come [...]

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