Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Monday, October 15th, 2007
Amazon has just released a completely mobile friendly version of their website. The new website allows you to do practically everything you can do from the full version of the website including my favorite Amazon Prime shipping. It even carries over the Amazon 1-click buy in now option that will automatically ship the item to [...]
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
Mentat is a useful new service that allows you to manage projects using their website. They have just decided to pursue the BlackBerry for their first mobile client and will be releasing a client in mid November. I find Mentat interesting since it is the first project management solution that is targeting BlackBerry users.
The Mentat [...]
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
I was just reading a post by Simon Sage on BlackBerryCool that pointed out Mozilla’s intention to enter the mobile browser market. Simon found a great post in schreps blog on Mozillazine about the new focus on mobile browsers. He even goes so far as to call mobile browsers “First Class Citizens” based on the [...]
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
I was reading an article by Dennis at WapReview.com about the new beta version of Bloglines Mobile. I know many BlackBerry users that swear by Bloglines so I decided to announce it for those who did not know about this new Beta. In case you don’t know what Bloglines is: [from Wikipedia]
Bloglines is a web-based [...]
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Many BlackBerry users use Viigo as their RSS reader on their BlackBerry but alternatives are always good and competition usually spurs innovation. Litefeeds is another free RSS reader for your BlackBerry that allows you to read RSS feeds on your Berry in relative comfort. I did not find the application to be as feature full [...]
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
I know many people use the renown Beyond411 to do quick lookups on their BlackBerry but I just found a piece of software that caters better to certain uses. The new vTap beta for WikiPedia does an amazing job of providing search results as you type. It shows you the results and when you click [...]
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
I had forgotten about MidpSSH until Josep of MiBlackBerry reminded me of this wonderful free application. Personally I use Rove/Idokorro’s Mobile SSH application to access my servers but free applications are always useful for casual users. The only problem with MidpSSH is that it does not support input buffering like Idokorro’s Mobile SSH application. The [...]
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
There are two free applications for BlackBerry that allow you to post to your Mini-Blog from your BlackBerry. I am not personally into “Stream of consciousness” blogging but I have quite a few friends who post to their Twitter or Jaiku Blog daily. The two applications are free and seem to be quite useful:
TwitterBerry - [...]
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Google has created and released an application pack for BlackBerry devices. This application pack includes 4 Google applications in one. It includes: Google Search, Google News, Gmail, and Google Maps in one install file with 4 different application icons on your home screen. It is easy to switch each application on and off by just [...]
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
One of our readers, David, asked me how he can view stock quotes and updates on his BlackBerry. As of now I have found 3 solutions for this, 2 of them are well known commercial solutions and the last is one I became aware of recently. The first is PocketDay Personal or Pro which is [...]
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