Archive for the 'Free Software' Category
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
The closest description I can come up with for Pinger is a Voice SMS system. For some reason I think I have heard of Pinger before but I can’t remember where…
The Pinger service lets you send voice messages directly to someone instantly over your data connection. It is like email with voice which ironically you [...]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
I know many of you were interested in the free MetrO application when we mentioned the first beta. So I was happy when Nathan told me about an updated beta version that MetrO just released. If you don’t know what MetrO is in a nutshell it allows you to get public transportation directions for over [...]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
I know we have been keeping you up to date on this promising beta of MyPoynt. I love the software and find it very useful even in the beta. Fred just sent me an email that the beta version has been updated to version 0.8.5.
This version just brings a bunch of bug fixes. So if [...]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
I just got an email from Josep about BlackBerryTracker going opensource. We mentioned BlackBerryTracker back in February. It is a great bare bones BlackBerry GPS tracking service. The best part is that the server and client software code is now available as an opensource download under the OpenLBS name. It is released under the Apache [...]
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
By now everyone (sorry non-Americans) is fired up, with their grills and plans for the 4th of July. So why not celebrate the 4th of July and show your patriotism on your BlackBerry as well with this nice theme by Mothy from blueroomsolution.com
The theme has a nice a double sided Zen theme with a really nice [...]
9 Comments » | Posted in 8300 Curve, 8800/8830, Free Software, Themes
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Keep in mind this is REALLY not supported by Google since they only support it for the 8110, 8120, & 8130. This is the new voice search version that was released as an experimental version by Google.
One of our readers, Hank, discovered that you can install it on a 8300 or 8800 series device just [...]
17 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
You may have remembered a short while back we featured a great new theme from eVeek called ‘Football Zen’ - well since that theme went over so big, they decided to create and add two more sport themes to the collection. The Basketball Zen theme and the Soccer Zen theme. Sports fans will love these [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in 8100 Pearl, 8300 Curve, 8800/8830, Free Software, Themes
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Once again this one is only for people interested in Hebrew biblical texts on their BlackBerry. I know we mentioned that this was coming before but Hebrew in Hand just released a beta program of their application that is now customized for the BlackBerry. Keep in mind this is still in beta but it does [...]
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
I know quite a few people who have asked me if there was a keyboard shortcut to send an SMS message. Just like you can hit ‘C’ to compose an email.
BerryCoder once again comes to the rescue with QSMS. If you install this application you can use the ‘Q’ shortcut to compose an SMS!
The best [...]
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
I just got an email from BerryCoder that they have released a free memory optimization application for BlackBerry. They claim it frees up to 5MB of memory on your BlackBerry no matter what the type! Not only it releases memory, you will also feel slight increase in response time. MaxMem will remove apps, themes, and [...]
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