Archive for the 'News' Category
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
The eyecandy continues Now comes the media player. Notice the new inclusion of the dedicated Voice Notes application. It took long enough!
Notice the nice new interface
And the ability to send the voice note as an email.
Sadly as you can see the voice notes are sent in .AMR format which sucks!!! There is a weird option [...]
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
I know I have seen a ton of screenshots of OS 4.5 but I have not bothered with it until this weekend. I decided to take some screenshots of all the features that I really wanted to see. I know what the homescreen looks like so strain your eyes below to catch what I found [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in News
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
I’ve had this email for a couple of days but could not post it as my daughter had hi-jacked my internet connection. Now she has finally finished with it… Here it is…
It was only a few days back when I found out about the Beta version of this application and now I have received news that it is out of beta and the full blown version has been released.
You can download the full version at : http://m.fxconverter.com/
If you want to post any feedback to the developer the address is: info@sweetcaesar.com .
OANDA FXConverter is a fantastic currency converter with 164 different currencies just a click away.
2 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, Utilities
Friday, March 28th, 2008
I just got an email from Plusmo about a new widget they have added to their Plusmo application. Truthfully you don’t even need the Plusmo application to get to the information but I think the application allows for live updates without a refresh. The page will try to refresh by itself but the browser will [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Free Software, Internet, News
Friday, March 28th, 2008
I know there are quite a few of you out there using the free xPlayer multimedia player from SHAPE so I thought I would mention this. They have released an update this week to fix a few bugs in the media player. One of the big fixes was the annoying issue where the backlight would [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Multimedia, Music, News, Utilities, Video
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Magmic has come through on their release schedule by putting out two new games today. The best part is that they have managed to get a 24 hour trial for Big Kahuna Words. This is a big step for Bplay since many previous games did not have trials. Hopefully this will pan out for more [...]
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
The scanR BlackBerry application that we mentioned yesterday has been released to the public today. You can find the announcement on their website with some great screenshots. As we mentioned before the application lets you take pictures of whiteboards and notes and have them converted into text and more readable images.
You can pick up the [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Free Software, News, Utilities
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
While I am not sure how well this will actually work scanR has a potential hit if it does. The idea is that you can take a picture of a whiteboard or notes from your BlackBerry and upload it directly to the scanR website. Once it is there you can extract the text and contact [...]
7 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, Utilities
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
I have gotten quite a few questions about this over the past few weeks so I thought I would mention it. Most old time BlackBerry users will remember the 5 free BlackBerry tools that came out back in the day. They are sill oldies but goodies.
Namely:
BBWeather – Pretty good weather application
BBLight – Simple flashlight
BBToday [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Internet, News, Utilities
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
WorldMate is nothing new for the mobile warrior. The application takes itinerarys from your inbox and converts them into a format you can use on your BlackBerry. That is just the tip of the iceberg…
The problem until now was that you needed to use their Outlook plugin to get it to work. They just sent [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, Free Software, News, Utilities