Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Now I know this one is way off topic but I laughed my butt off when I first read this. Just thought I would share…Enjoy…
Pocket Taser Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife. A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Taser for their anniversary submitted this: Last weekend I [...]
8 Comments » | Posted in Jokes, Off Topic
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
I installed an Alpine iDA-X001 media player in my work van about 6 months or so ago and until recently, have not tried it for playing music directly from my BlackBerry Curve.
Although I have it running through about 1200 watts of amplifiers, subwoofers and speakers, I’m not going to do a review of sound quality [...]
8 Comments » | Posted in Accessories, Multimedia, Music
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
RIM should call their ‘Poll of the Week’,’Poll of the Month’. They only seem to change the question as often as I change my underpants…and that’s not very often… J
This weeks/months question,’ What do you find more influential in your decision to purchase a BlackBerry?’
The two answers you have to choose from…
Hardware features
Services capability
That’s It??? [...]
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Review: HP pocket emulator applications by Lygea Calculators
Rating: 6.8/10
Cost: $ 12.95 each
Pocket 10B SE Business Calculator for BlackBerry v1.10
Pocket 10C SE Scientific Calculator v1.0
Pocket 12C SE Financial Calculator for BlackBerry v1.0
On the first day of this series, I’ll present three calculators already. One of the first things I ran into [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Reviews, Utilities
Monday, April 21st, 2008
I don’t know what happens to me when I use the calculator that is included with every Blackberry device these days. I always feel that something is not right. I guess it doesn’t quite look like a calculator. I guess I’d never seen a blue calculator. Maybe I want more functions. Maybe the “equals” sign [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Reviews, Utilities
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Review: GoogHelper version 1.01
Rating: 7.0/10
Cost: $ 4.95
One feature I’ve always wanted to have in my Blackberry is the ability to “speed dial” a Web site. I already can press and hold the letter “h” to call Halevy or hold “m” to call Myers, but all letters of the alphabet are available and I don’t [...]
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Paypal Mobile has been around for a bit but I wanted to give it a try for myself. I like the idea of being able to browse Ebay while I’m waiting at the doctors or wherever and then instantly purchasing an item if I want. Thanks to Paypal Mobile, it’s easy.
Once you have a Paypal [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Internet, Reviews
Monday, April 21st, 2008
One of our other writers gave me this idea over the weekend.
Now I know BlackBerry pride themselves on the ‘Never Off’ feature of the device but then they included an ‘Off’ button. I know some of you don’t have the opportunity to switch off your BlackBerries, myself included as I am on on-call 24/7/365, but [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Editorial
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Cell phone carrier in India, Tata, has defied a partial BlackBerry ban imposed by the Government there and gone ahead and rolled out the devices on their network anyway… What will be the response ??? The next couple of days should prove interesting on that news front anyway…
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
It has pretty close to 6 months ago now since I took delivery of the 2 OtterBox cases for review. (The Defender 1934-20 for the Pearl series and the 1935-20 for the Curve series).
Now I know that most reviewers try a product for a week or so, write their review then move on to the [...]
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