Archive for December, 2007
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
ExchangeMyMail has always been one of the heavy hitters in the BES hosting arena. They have just announced today that they are now offering Exchange 2007 hosting for all new accounts. They seem to have worked out all the issues with BES and Exchange 2007 and have had it running smoothly for a month now. [...]
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Ever been standing in a store wondering if you could get the same product cheaper online or at another store?
I just found a great new mobile website mobile.barcle.com that lets you search for an SKU or product name and get instant results including what the competition is charging for a product. Personally I have found that [...]
9 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Internet, News, Utilities
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
I just saw a great new theme on BlackBerryforums by Styrizo which has a nice clean cut style for the BlackBerry 8100. I love the simplistic design and the very clear white on black styling. Personally the Bluetooth icon could use some work but otherwise I think the designer has some real style. The whole [...]
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Stefano just let me know that Simprit, the creators of GridMagic and Minisafe, have released a new version of GridMagic that is free for non-commercial personal and educational use. The new version has many of the key features of the full version with a few limitations shown in the table below. This is a great [...]
10 Comments » | Posted in Documents, Free Software, News, Utilities
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Moving to a new location? Wondering where you will find the best reception? Trying to find the exact direction you should be leaning your head when you only have one bar…
I just got an email from one of our readers Jerry about a website, antennasearch.com, that has been gathering information about the location of almost [...]
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
For those of you who absolutely have to have the latest and greatest version… Google just released a new update to Google Maps at the following link:
http://www.google.com/gmm
There is no word as to what the new version 2.0.1 brings to the table that version 2.0.0 did not but as I said this is mostly for the version [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, Utilities
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Ever try browsing IMDB.com from your BlackBerry? I know I have tried and their site is extremely mobile unfriendly. MetaJam.mobi movie and music database comes to the rescue with quite a bit of IMDB’s information in a mobile friendly site. Sadly it does not have as much content as the full version but it has quite a [...]
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
I have been waiting for Google to introduce a group chat feature for ages and they have finally done so. The only problem is that the function is just not available on the BlackBerry client. (At least as far as I have seen) So I pose the question:
Q: Has anybody managed to get group chat [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in IM Services, News
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
I just got an anonymous tip that the gorgeous looking Flipside MP3 player that we mentioned previously is finally out of Beta. It seems that they fixed quite a few of the bugs in the application and refined many of the features so they work better. It still uses an interface that mimics Apple’s Cover [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in Multimedia, Music, News, Utilities
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
The latest version of Viigo 2.2.7 has been in beta for a bit now and is finally ready for public consumption. This is the same Viigo that got a 9/10 rating in our last review. Simon at BBCool got a handle on the new features in the release.
New features in version 2.2.7
Registration wizard
Optional guided tour [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Free Software, News, RSS, Utilities