Archive for the 'Editorial' Category
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I just read this article on Yahoo Tech and had to share. This article by Robin Raskin made me immediately want to try some of these tips out. The first two sound like great ideas.
Let me give you a taste:
If your phone is wet – Remove the battery and put it in a bowl of [...]
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
This is so demeaning. RIM won’t give us any official word on the new Blackberry 9000, so we have to scavenge for whatever rumors and alleged pictures we can find on the internets. This one looks very real though. According to Bla1ze, not one but THREE of the new Blackberry 9000 have been offered [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in Editorial, News, RIM, Rumors
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Skype made an important announcement yesterday.
Today, the company released a beta version of Skype for your mobile, a mobile “thin” client that works on about 50 of the most popular Java-enabled mobile phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.
The beta version of Skype for your mobile is available worldwide with a feature set that [...]
10 Comments » | Posted in Editorial, News, Rant
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Sorry for the lack of posts by myself yesterday but I swear I have a legitimate reason. Late yesterday (around 10:30 pm local time) after a long, long day at work I was just getting set to post a few articles up for you all when my ISP went down in a screaming heap. After [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Editorial
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 [...]
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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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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
I tend to do my best thinking on the porcelain throne and came up with a great brainstorm idea (in my opinion) for an application. I know Geotagging and friend finding applications have been all the craze recently but I have a simpler and more effective use of GPS or cellphone tower triangulation. Let me know what you [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in Editorial
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Sorry guys for issues with the site this morning. One of our scripts decided to go haywire on us. In short their was a break in the time space continuum…
Things seem to be fixed with some help from Christopher Lloyd. We appreciate your patience.
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Seriously I have been called an addict, a Berryholic, and a crackberry before but this one is a brand spanking new label.
Nomophobia – The fear of being out of mobile contact
Google’s Mobile Blog just posted about this newly diagnosed affliction after it was covered on the Evening Standard. I just thought we could chalk it up [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Editorial
Friday, April 11th, 2008
Ronen has mentioned Cellular Nationwide Network before, but that was several months ago and I would like to mention it again, this time from a different perspective.
You probably read Blackberry blogs and forums often and have run into several people complaining about dirty trackballs. This is a very common problem with the Blackberry, and it’s [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Editorial