Archive for the 'News' Category
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Just a quick news flash here.
I got an email about two hours ago that Jott Networks is now out of Beta.
However, if you were an early adopter of the Jott products, you can sign up for “A year of the Jott and Jott Pro products at a 26% savings off the monthly rate.”
At least Jott [...]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
After Mark mentioned Wordcaster to me I decided to check out the other games from Nickel Buddy Studios. I thought I would start with Jounce since the game looks quite fun and I love puzzles. Turns out that I was not disappointed. The game is quite addictive though the controls could use a tad bit [...]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
There is a bit of buzz going around with the release of a Wall Street Journal application for BlackBerry. This seems to just be another branded version of FreeRange with the added perk of actually being free. These branded version are actually quite good but Luc has been reporting that previous branded version tended [...]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Brian, who frequents BlackberryForums.com has recently designed a very sharp Vista Theme for Blackberry Devices 81xx, 83xx & 88xx. Each device version is available for 4.2 & 4.5 OS. There are four styles to this theme; ‘blank’, ‘zen’, ‘today’ and ‘bottom dock’ . I actually have the ‘bottom dock’ theme myself and changed the image [...]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Hayden spotted what looks like a new revamped version of Blueapple.mobi. Blueapple was a great site for finding videos that would play on your BlackBerry. It looks like they changed their name to Vuclip and now have a cleaner design for their website. I also found it funny that they have a mockup of the [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Mobile Websites, News, Video
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Many of you may already know this but just to let you all know, last month my good friend Kelly Carter, who inspired me to blog about the BlackBerry, has moved his BlackBerry blog from http://blackberry8130.wordpress.com/ to the new and improved http://newbbie.com.
Filled with even more resourceful information and tips and tricks for new BlackBerry owners, [...]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Not sure how many of you use Yahoo! Go but Legends on PinStack noticed that it has just been updated to version 3.0.43. Keeping with tradition there is no changelog so nobody knows what is updated. Legends believes this is the final version and it is now out of beta but I have not been [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
I just happened to come by this beta application while browsing the web and was shocked that I had not heard of it before! Turns out that BoxTone is beta testing an application that gives you quite a bit of monitored information on your BlackBerry. Nothing ground breaking but here is the feature list:
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Sara let me know about this application from e-Mobile that we have not mentioned before. Turns out they released a task application for BlackBerry while I was not looking. Its a little bit pricey at $16.95 but it does seem to have a trial available. I am curious to know if anybody is using this [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Erica sent in a tip about PaintBall letting me know that it competes with Chuzzle on her BlackBerry. I have been seriously addicted to Chuzzle recently but I am always looking for a good replacement. Turns out that PaintBall is quite fun and addictive and left me impressed. They game is on sale currently for [...]
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