People have been complaining about being locked into iTunes for ages. Truthfully I have always been of the opinion that they brought it upon themselves by buying DRM music. A new freeware solution called doubleTwist hopes to help people from under the shackles of iTunes to liberate their music.
The old way was to burn the [...]

This is part 2, here is part 1: One day, I was very bored and decided to play a little with The Gimp. I am no artist, so I just came up with a lot of random stuff. I saw that some of it could be used as wallpapers, so I put them in my [...]

This is part 1, here is part 2: One day, I was very bored and decided to play a little with The Gimp. I am no artist, so I just came up with a lot of random stuff. I saw that some of it could be used as wallpapers, so I put them in my [...]

While looking around in the owners lounge for Disco Bowling I ran across 4 slick backgrounds for the BlackBerry 8100, 8300, 8700, & 8800 series devices. The backgrounds may have been there awhile but they are news to me. I included a simple screenshot of them below. The blue one is my favorite and is the [...]

A colleague, Mark, just sent me a link to a great video on YouTube. He sent it to me after reading and agreeing with our previous post about why RIM needs a new advertising agency. According to him this is a link to some new stuff that started as a skunkworks project in RIM from some creative [...]

I just got a tip from Gary about a cool video site that works on BlackBerry devices as long as the video is not too large. You can download videos but not stream them at this time. (I am not sure about the 8130) The site is pretty standard when it comes to video selection [...]

RIM finally released a press release about their BlackBerry Bluetooth Music Gateway (first seen at CES) today at the Mobile World Congress. You can read it below. The interesting part is that one of BBCool’s readers caught sight and price of the new Music Gateway on Tessco.com selling for $79.99. I guess that will be the [...]

nuTsie is not really a new service since it came out a few months ago. Surprisingly it did not spark the revolution and uptake that nuTsie was hoping for.
A short description of nuTsie:

nuTsie is a new mobile and online music service that allows anyone to listen to their iTunes music and playlists in hi-fi quality [...]

Not long ago RIM relented and gave us a MP3 player, external media, and a standard headphone jack. Since then they have made some small improvements but the features and options are still pitiful! When OS 4.3 came out on the 8130 I was hoping for some nice additions but still nothing. So now we are hearing [...]

From the developers Of Cippi The Farting Chipmunk… comes another absurd application for BlackBerry devices. Some of you might remember the “Immature Application Of The Year Award” we gave Cippi the farting chipmunk.  Well the developers of Cippi have come up with more ridiculous fun that is compatible with your BlackBerry device.
This new application called LYNX [...]