Archive for the 'News' Category
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
UPDATE: We were told that you should remove the RIM TOOLS FOLDER from 4.6.0.156 or else you will install RIM’s QUINCY application…
Sorry everybody but it was the Jewish New Year over the past two days so I was AWOL. While I was away we got tips for quite a few OS versions for the Bold [...]
9 Comments » | Posted in 9000 Bold, News
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Paula let me know that EA has released SimCity for BlackBerry. When I heard about it I suddenly had flashbacks of SimCity 2000 from back in the day… Anybody feel the same? It turns out that the graphics of SimCity for BlackBerry look similar to the classic. The game is an expensive $14.99 at [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in Games, News, User Submitted
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Since I started using the Bold I had trouble taking screenshots with my older version of the free BBScreenShooter application. (Version 1.61 I think) Turns out that the good guys at Oppitronic have released an update since I last downloaded the application to bring the latest version to 1.62b. This version supports the 7xxx, [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in 9000 Bold, Free Software, News, Utilities
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
This is another website I ran into recently that I bookmarked on my BlackBerry. It’s not a BlackBerry or even a mobile specific website, but it fills a gap that I had. Have you ever tried to reach a website and it looked like it was down but you could not confirm it? Turns out [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in News
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Review: OtterBox Defender Case 88XX
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Link: www.OtterBox.com
Cost: $49.95 @ The BerryReview Store
I would like to start off by saying, this is not my favorite case, it is not on my device today for several reasons that I will get into later. However, I would not be without this case, and I think that anyone [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Accessories, Cases, News, Reviews
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
We all knew it wouldn’t be long before theme designers started creating themes for the Blackberry BOLD so I guess we’ll be seeing more and more of them as time goes on. John over at GadgetBean.Com has gotten in on the fun by taking his popular Real iBerry Blocks Theme and creating a version for [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in 9000 Bold, News, Themes
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
S4BB sent out an email over the weekend that they have updated their public beta of TaskReports for BlackBerry. TaskReports essentially helps you create reports on how efficiently you handle the tasks on your BlackBerry. Personally I don’t have a need for such an application but I can see some GTD task aficionados interested [...]
Leave Comment » | Posted in News, Utilities
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
I was reading a great writeup on WapReview about 3 different mobile websites that allow you to access and update your Twitter profile without an application. This is probably the best solution for those of us that only use Twitter occasionally and would rather avoid the current batch of buggy Twitter BlackBerry applications. Maybe [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Mobile Websites, News
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
With all the progress Microsoft & RIM have made with integrating Live and other services on the BlackBerry I was surprised when I came across this little tidbit. It turns out that you cannot access hosted Microsoft Office Outlook Live email on your BlackBerry.
It turns out that Microsoft is using another proprietary HTTP (Surprised?) to [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in News, RIM
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
An anonymous tipper sent this in, but I am a little slow on the draw as now it seems to be common knowledge that AT&T is holding launch parties for employees, authorized dealers, resellers, etc. to go and see the Blackberry Bold in action. Go to this site for details and check out a neat [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in News