Archive for the 'Multimedia' Category
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Since the Mobile YouTube page does not natively support BlackBerry devices a few alternatives have popped up. One of our readers asked me how to get these video’s on their BlackBerry so I thought I would share it with the rest of you. These solutions are not pretty and quite slow but they do work [...]
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Josep at MiBlackBerry pointed out to me that the new specs on the 8130 Pearl include video recording. I know that RIM is a few years behind the other headset manufacturers when it comes to camera capabilities but this is a nice update. So far I don’t see any specifics about video quality but I [...]
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
xPlayer is one of my favorite new applications for the BlackBerry. The media player reminds me of Winamp and just gets the job done with a very user friendly interface that now also has theme options. As I mentioned before it also helps that the software is completely free when compared to the competition and [...]
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Joshua Karp at the BoyGenius reported that you can now watch CNN and ABC video on your BlackBerry from the WAP browser. The videos require OS 4.2+ which rules out older BlackBerry devices. The trick is that you have to use the WAP browser and not the BlackBerry or BES browser to download the videos. [...]
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
I just discovered and tried something new on my BlackBerry and I thought I would share it with you all. If you transfer a JAR (JAVA) file to the media card or memory of your device using either mass storage mode or desktop manager you will be able to install the file from your BlackBerry. [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in BlackBerry FAQ, Free Software, Games, Multimedia
Friday, August 31st, 2007
S4BB has just announced an update to their commercial BlackBerry Video Generator. While there are free options out there for video conversion this one always seems to be the simplest and fastest way to get video to your BlackBerry. The main reason I am posting this is for all the current users this update is [...]
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
X-BerrySoft has announced the Beta release of xPlayer, a new free Media Player for BlackBerry devices. X-BerrySoft is planning on making this player the best media player for BlackBerry devices so give them some help by beta testing xPlayer. So far there is only a Desktop Manager download available at this link. X-BerrySoft is asking [...]
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
I just noticed that my favorite earbud company, Shure, has a line of earbuds that are designed for mobile devices. They have three versions of the headphones in the mobile friendly I Series which are comparable to their other earbud lines. Each of them has the option to only have a 2.5mm jack or both [...]
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
BoyGenius has done it again. I know it has become expected of him to leak info on new BlackBerry devices but it is still quite impressive when they get good stuff like this. There is even talk of streaming media over WiFi or EVDO. You owe it to yourself to check out the info here [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in GPS, Multimedia, News, RIM, Wifi
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Seidio 2-IN-1 Earbuds Headphones For BlackBerry 8100 / 8800 / 8830
Rating: 7.5/10
Link: www.seidioonline.com
Cost: Standard $29.95 / Retractable $34.95
Seidio has quite a lineup of headphone accessories for BlackBerry 8100 and 8800 devices. After the popularity of the review on the Seidio Headphone adapter (~6,000 hits to date) we decided to cover another Seidio [...]
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