Archive for the 'Free Software' Category
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
One of our readers, Sasha, just let me know about a new piece of software for the BlackBerry 8130. Since I do not have a 8130 I cannot test it out but I am hoping one of you kind readers will give it a whirl and get back to me.
MapWith.Us seems to have the mapping [...]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
I was checking out the BlackBerry help page during the last few days and ran across two new themes. One is called Aqua and the second is called Tickled Pink. I can confirm that they are available for the 8100, 8300, & 8800 series devices but I am not sure which other series devices are [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in 8100 Pearl, 8300 Curve, 8800/8830, Free Software, Themes
Monday, March 10th, 2008
One of our readers, Kasey, just pointed out a very interesting theme on BlueroomSolution.com. The theme is called Brushed Metal and is a perfect theme for people who hate icons. I know I have run into a few of these users before who would love the simplicity of just being able to read what each [...]
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Kevin, on CrackBerry, pointed out a new free innovative application from Electric Pocket called FindMe. The application reports your location to the Facebook application counterpart and lets you tag certain locations. For example you would tag “Work” at work and so on.
The coolest part is that the application does not use GPS! It uses the cell tower triangulation [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, Utilities
Friday, March 7th, 2008
GPSed has finally added the feature that completes the circle of their offering. Until now you could use GPSed to keep track of where you went and your waylog. Now you can automatically connect your GPSed account to Picasa and have your pictures automatically added to the place they were taken based on their timestamp. [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, Images, News
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Yes you are not seeing things. I said free without an invite. I don’t know how long this solution will last because GrandCentral is getting prepped for a full release soon. I just checked and the method does work without a hitch on three different machines.
The best part is that you don’t need some benevolent [...]
38 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
I know this is coming a little bit late after Valentines day but I just ran across another nice theme by NancyDrew on Themes4BB. This one is called HeartBerry and is appropriately named. It is a nice today theme and has a unique quality that I cannot put my finger on. I just liked it [...]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Some readers have been complaining that we have not been covering the BlackBerry Pearl theme front so I decided to showcase some Pearl only themes that I like. The most recent one I ran into was created by Constabl and released on Themes4BB.
The theme is called Plain BLACK Berry for a reason. The theme is [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in 8100 Pearl, Free Software, Themes
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
I know that this is nothing new but since today has been such a slow news day I thought I would rehash some oldies but goodies. GrandCentral has to be one of my favorite services. It is free and allows you to have one phone number, provided by GrandCentral, that tries to reach you at [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Editorial, Free Software, Utilities
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
One of our readers, RelicAte, sent in a tip about some new content on RIM’s mobile site mobile.blackberry.com. It turns out that RIM has made two new applications available for BlackBerry users for free but they seem to be targeted towards their Canadian native market. This is interesting because traditionally our friends up north have [...]
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