Archive for September, 2007
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Check out this link at BlackBerryForums.com where froZen is reporting that he will soon have more unlocked 8320’s for sale. This is the same guy who leaked the info on OS 4.3 so he seems to be legit. He has posted many screenshots at this link and the devices he is selling are silver instead [...]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
I just noticed that BlackBerry is offering a free copy of Monopoly Tycoon by Magmic to the first 10,000 downloaders. You can get the game by going to BlackBerry.com and following the links to the owners lounge. If you already have an account just go to this link otherwise you have to register first:
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/ownerslounge/downloads/games.jsp
The game [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Free Software, Games, RIM
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
One of our readers, Mike, asked me how to perform a clean uninstall of the BlackBerry software on his computer. He mentioned that there were guides for previous versions of BlackBerry Desktop Manager but not for the new 4.2 versions. I did run across this BlackBerry KnowledgeBase article on how to perform a clean uninstall [...]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
I was just tipped off that we may have a new GPS tracking application coming for BlackBerry devices called Cactus Locate. So far the application seems to be in Beta and there is no mention of price but its good to see that developers are working on squeezing every ounce of potential out of our [...]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Jeremy at statusmessage has produced a great mockup of what the official cellphone of the NRA would look like. Introducing the GlockBerry:
We understand the inconvenience of carrying firearms in a world where our pockets are already full with the numerous other mobile gadgets that have proven so necessary for modern survival. After months in the [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in News
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Anne Fisher, a senior writer at Fortune, answers an interesting question posed to her about friends CrackBerry addictions. The reader asks when is the point that using your BlackBerry becomes rude and when should you say something about it.
It is interesting to note that Miss Manners herself is sympathetic to the cause of these addicted [...]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
I know people have been asking for an application that will allow you to schedule profile changes for quite awhile. It seems that WCS BlackBerry Services has come up with a solution. The have released the first Notifications Profile Switcher for the BlackBerry. Currently the software is in Beta testing which they have announced on [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, News, Utilities
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Hidden at the bottom of a Financial Times article by Demetri Sevastopulo is an interesting tidbit. From the last paragraph:
The National Security Council said the White House had created a team of experts to consider whether the administration needed to restrict the use of BlackBerries because of concerns about cyber espionage.
Talk about some interesting [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in News, RIM
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
DALSA Corporation just put out a press release today confirming that it has completed an agreement originally announced in May to sell approximately 37 acres of land in Waterloo to Research in Motion (RIM) at a cost of around $11.6 million. DALSA, which owns approximately 19 adjacent acres, is jointly developing lands in Northeast Waterloo [...]
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
BerryLogic has just released a new application that allows you to easily create a task or calendar item out of any email or SMS. This is not really anything new if you consider that BBSmart and PocketDay both do the same and much more. I guess the real reason for BerryLogic’s application is to target [...]
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