Archive for the 'News' Category
Friday, September 5th, 2008
After RIM and Google let their Picasa BlackBerry application die I thought there would not be another solution for awhile. Raffy sent me a link to Google System which discovered that you can now email pictures to Picasa and it will automatically be added to your album. Pretty cool stuff especially since it is free [...]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Josep let me know that SpotJots has announced a new feature that some people might appreciate. It is essentially a slick widget that lets you publish your location to all of your profiles. This includes:
MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, TypePad, MyYearbook, Vista, Yahoo!, Google, Live, hi5, Xanga, Friendster, BlackPlanet, Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress, PageFlakes, Orkut and VOX
It [...]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
LogMeIn is one of my favorite remote access software companies. They have announced right at CTIA Fall 2008 the support for remotely accessing Blackberry devices. LogMeIn Rescue+Mobile will be the first on-demand service that supports Windows, Mac, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and BlackBerry.
With the addition of BlackBerry remote support, LogMeIn Rescue now provides comprehensive, multi-platform support [...]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
It looks like the next iteration of Project Tango will be showing up next week with some cool new features. My favorite is the ability to customize the homescreen channels to my taste by adding and removing options.
Other new features include:
Flight status & search via Flightstats.com
Kijiji classifieds
Currency exchange rates
Additional sports coverage (NCAA)
Application performance improvements
Better memory [...]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Anybody who has used the RIM AIM client will know that there is a stupid restriction where it only allows you to see your Mobile Buddies group. To make matters worse it will only show you a maximum of 30 buddies in your Mobile Buddies group. The first time you sign into the AIM mobile [...]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
As I was browsing around some of the other blogs today, I ran across a little trick that I thought was pretty cool. Turns out that you can add symbols to your display name in BBMessenger. You can use all of the symbols available and even a couple of the smiley faces. The only catch [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in BlackBerry FAQ, News, Off Topic
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Kyle let me know about a review he did of the vPost enterprise application we mentioned before. vPost is currently only targeting enterprise customers but from what I hear a consumer focused application is in the pipeline. Something along the lines of a Wordpress or other posting compatible client. This could also make for a [...]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Frank pointed out to me that Concrete also released two other new games this week. The first is Lawn Darts which is a classic backyard game that kids are not allowed to play anymore. The second is Constructo Combat which is a 3D spaceship game. Both games are a bit expensive in my opinion [...]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Michael Small sent me a couple of new themes this morning. Michael really outdoes himself with the themes he puts out. All of them are crisp and clean, and these two are no exception. The first theme is an Alien L theme, with a really neat Yellow and Orange color combination. The second theme is [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in 8300 Curve, 8800/8830, News, Themes
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Timothy sent in this great deal that he found on RIM’s website. Turns out that LetsTalk is offering a free HS-655 BlackBerry branded Bluetooth headset with practically all of their BlackBerrys with a new contract. The nice part is the the BlackBerrys are also free (some with $50 rebates) which makes this a pretty good [...]
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