Archive for the 'News' Category
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
After mentioning eOnlineNow’s vendor theme icons yesterday Steve let me know about another resource. Turns out that a guru on CrackBerry Forums, Updater, managed to extract the ACTUAL theme icons and wallpapers from all but one of the vendor themes.
This includes the backgrounds and icons for100 TMo102 ATT104 Sprint105 Verizon107 Rogers109 Bell114 TMo115 TIM119 Orange [...]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
My wife just sent me a link to an article about this iLane accessory that is scheduled to be released this year. It does not look like a new announcement but this is the first I have heard of it. Turns out that this iLane product lets you control your BlackBerry by voice and it [...]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
We told you about ColorWare previously and many people were excited. They essentially repaint your BlackBerry whatever color you want. There were two problems with the service that really held back many potential customers including myself. First of all it is expensive and second of all it took forever (2 weeks).
Sadly it still costs a [...]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
In case you happen to be one of the lucky people who have access to the AIM service book on your carrier… One of our readers just sent in a tip saying that AIM 2.1.32 is now available from RIM.
There is not much changed but it does bring all of the new features [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in IM Services, News, User Submitted
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
I just got this press release for a new 1800flowers application for BlackBerry. Turns out that their mobile website 1800flowers.mobi was not enough. They teamed up with Digby to offer an on-device portal to purchase gifts from your BlackBerry. I can kind of see this being useful for very busy professionals who always need to [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, Utilities
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Sorry I could not help myself. DavidB just sent me a link to Engadget where they just broke this story. Turns out that Movistar out in Chile is the first carrier worldwide to release the Bold. Price is a bit high at ~$588 but what would you pay to get your hands on a [...]
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
TellMe was released a bit back as a free application by Microsoft. In the beginning they only supported GPS enabled BlackBerry devices. Nikilaus just let me know that TellMe sent him an email that it now supports the 8320 and other GPS less BlackBerrys.
The latest version 1.82.12 lets GPS less users take advantage of [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Monday, August 4th, 2008
Bla1ze let me know about this resource for theme devs. Its not exactly new but some of you may not have heard about it before. Turns out the owner of eOnlineNow has been going through the process of extracting the theme icons from all of the vendor themes that RIM ships. This could be really [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, Themes
Monday, August 4th, 2008
After we told you about the beta voice search in Google Maps for the 8100 pearl many of you tried to get it to work on other BlackBerry models. I personally had no luck until Shawn left a comment on the recent 2.2.2 release post giving a little trick to get it to work.
He [...]
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Shaun sent in this website that I found quite useful. It is a clean mobile website that gives you access to a wealth of information based on your location.
You just give it your zipcode or city and it will show you what is available customized to your location. There are quite a few clicks to [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Mobile Websites, News