Archive for the 'News' Category
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
News just out from Nav4All is that they have just added New Zealand and Jakarta to their already extensive on-line GPS database. This now makes Nav4All the largest and most detailed On-line mapping program on the market. There has been extensive testing side by side with some of the biggest names in GPS software [...]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Enigma has been releasing some interesting games for BlackBerry recently. They released EFL: Preseason Football Game earlier this month and have followed with another game. This one is called Rosie’s Revenge and is available for $6.95 from Enigma games. Rosie’s Revenge is the only First Person Fighting game I know of for BlackBerry so it [...]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Kevin at CrackBerry.com has been keeping up some amazing coverage during CTIA this whole week. His latest find is the new Project Tango that Viigo has been dangling in front of our noses these past few months. Kevin promised not to take any screenshots of the application but he did snap a few of the [...]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
The admin of eVeek.com, Peter, let me know about a new Beta that they have just launched. They introduced a video platform where you can find videos online and download them to your BlackBerry.
Peter told me about this service a bit back and it got me quite excited about the prospect. The service is truly a [...]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
A bit back I cam across a really random BlackBerry application and thought I would share it with you. I have to put up the disclaimer that I have never tried it myself since I don’t really listen to the radio since my commute is underground. The application idea is really cool. They have systems [...]
9 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Music, News, Utilities
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
This past month I had asked if a on device screenshot utility was possible for the BlackBerry. Neil of DevBerry.com answered the question by stating that in OS 4.3 there is a handle for such a thing but nobody had implemented its use yet.
Well I guess the developers of SnapScreen, VirtualViews, decided to prove Neil right. These are the [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
I know I already covered the media player and video recorder but I completely forgot about the camera. My bad. The truth is that other than one great new feature most of the changes to the camera are cosmetic. Read below to see what that great new feature is…
You now have 1–5x digital zoom. I [...]
9 Comments » | Posted in GPS, News
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Vlingo, not to be mistaken with the Vringo offering we just mentioned, is a voice recognition firm. They have just helped Yahoo come out with a new voice powered search service for Yahoo OneSearch. Knowing Yahoo the application will probably be great but it will be a resource and bandwidth hog.
Devin has some first impressions [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Internet, News, Utilities
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
When I first heard about Vringo they dealt with video ringtones being sent from one user to another. Hayden at PinStack has uncovered another one of their Beta applications that is quite interesting. It is another application on your BlackBerry that automatically downloads the pictures for your contacts from Facebook.
I am not quite sure how [...]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
RIM has astounded many with Q4 and year end revenue that doubles the previous year. Most of the growth is attributed to device sales with 2.18 million new subscribers in the last quarter of 2007.
In short RIM is doing very well… I will leave it at that. For the sake of all the people out there who actually [...]
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