Archive for the 'Email' Category
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Astrasync is trying to position itself as the middle ground between BIS and BES. We have mentioned it before because we find the idea very interesting. Currently BlackBerry users have the choice Between email only BIS and expensive BES. They also always had the 3rd option of buggy SyncML which never worked for anybody. [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, Email, News, Utilities
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Raffy and Josep let me know about this cool service called EmailFuture. It essentially lets you send emails and schedule when they should arrive in your inbox. Its kind of like a very very simple reminder system. Or you could use it as a time capsule to send yourself an email in 10 years from [...]
8 Comments » | Posted in Email, Free Software, Internet, News
Monday, July 21st, 2008
A new beta version of PocketDay 5.4 is now available. The new features are:
BlackBerry Bold Certified.
Weather and World Times now use the same font as all the other sections.
Full native support for HTML email inside PD (including the option to automatically download images) (OS 4.5+).
Added support for multiple calendars (Bold or OS 4.6+).
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3 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, Email, News, RSS, Wifi
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
You ever notice in Gmail that when you emailed a person a few times in Gmail they suddenly showed up in your address book? You’re not the only one. People have been complaining about it for awhile now and Google has answered.
According to Google System the new Gmail contacts manager that is being rolled out [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Email, News, User Submitted
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I was just reading this crazy article on Mashabe by Stan Schroeder. Supposedly this poor soul named Colin Wells gets about 44,000 Spam messages a day! Thats 16 million a year!
Turns out that ClearMyMail, a service that guarantees to stop Spam, published a list of their most spammed email addresses in the UK. Colin won [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Email, News
Monday, June 30th, 2008
I was just reading about how spammers are targeting our BlackBerrys for spam. Makes sense since I read (& delete) more of my emails on my BlackBerry.
I then read Stan’s article about the ridiculous Spamlets he has been receiving recently and I cant help but agree. 50% of the spam I get nowadays is pure junk. It [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Editorial, Email
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Review: Empower BES Mailbox
Rating: 9/10
Link: www.getempower.com
Cost: $19.99 @ the BerryReview Store
I know that this application has been mentioned before, but I just got it yesterday and I had to talk about it in greater detail!
Anyone who uses their BlackBerry on an Enterprise Server, should seriously consider this application. Empower BES MailBox has been a [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in BES, Editors' Choice, Email, Reviews, Utilities
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Once again we have another BES replacement entering into the foray. This tip came in thanks to Robbie. ActiveBerry essentially implements te Exchange ActiveSync and push technology on your BlackBerry.
It is an application that Synchronizes your email, calendar, & address book to your Exchange account or MailSite Fusion account OTA. You just set your activesync server [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in BES, Calendar/Tasks, Email, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Jorge of BlackBerryGTD caught a great free app just released. It is called Notify! for BlackBerry from Atomichelix.
It serves one function and one function only. It lets you save your email and export it into a memo. I can see multiple uses for such a feature but I am curious to see what you might [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Email, Free Software, Utilities
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
If you are like me you will probably enjoy using IMAP for Gmail integration on your BlackBerry. I found that it has better syncronization of deleted and archived messages.
The problem is that the second you put in your email address and password into the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) form it automatically chooses to use POP3 [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in BIS, BlackBerry FAQ, Email