Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
I know this is a bit old but it has been a day to dig up old news. One of our readers, Doug, sent in a question asking how he can improve his reminders on his BlackBerry. I humbly pointed out www.iwantsandy.com as a free service that lets you setup email reminders.
Its as easy as [...]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
I know this is not a new piece of software so hold your horses. I got two emails from readers recommending it and I noticed we never mentioned it on BerryReview… So I thought what the hell.
Boopsie, like Beyond411, lets you do searches with the application trying to autocomplete the rest of your search. Not [...]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Everybody always gives us a hard time when we mention yet another weather app but I don’t care! I believe in variety being the flavor of life. This latest weather app was created as an internal project by the good guys at NorthCubed and they have kindly offered it for free to the general public. [...]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Stefano sent me a link to this great utility to translate text on your BlackBerry. The best part is that it is totally free. Keep in mind this is machine translation so it is not 100% accurate.
BBTran touts itself as a universal translator for BlackBerry. Currently BBTran works with Google Translate & Dictionary and SYSTRAN translation [...]
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
I know many of you installed the BlackBerry wallet application when we mentioned it last week. While sifting through some of the documentation on the Wallet application I ran into the following document on RIM’s website.
It turns out that mobile website stores will need to be part of something called the BlackBerry Content Optimization Technology [...]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Tungle was just released into Beta not long ago. In short it allows you to coordinate meetings and such across Outlook, Google, iCal, Lotus Notes and now they support the BlackBerry with a cool new interface.
From the press release:
With Tungle’s new BlackBerry interface, professionals checking e-mail on their BlackBerry devices can receive Tungle meeting invitations [...]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
We have mentioned CalcNexus before but recently they have added a ton of more calculators to their online portal. Just head on over to www.calcnexus.com to check them out from your browser.
So far they have:
Mortgage & Loan » Mortgage Payment » Improved! Auto Loan » Simple Loan » Loan Amortization Auto & Car » Auto Loan » Gas Mileage Financial » Currency Conversion [...]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
I am not sure where I discovered this link originally but I found the allrecipes.com mobile website very useful. The website is a mobile version of the very popular www.allrecipes.com website. The best part is that the recipes have images and ratings!!! There is no real browse function but it does have a great search function [...]
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Okay chalk this up as another website I had no clue existed. I mentioned the Bank of America mobile website a bit back. That got quite a large response so I thought I would mention the American Express mobile website that I just discovered on Wapreview.net.
You just head on over to www.amexmobile.com from your Berry [...]
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
I just got emailed a link to another great website for news on your Berry. The website is a beta project by the Associated Press and looks really good. It even lets you plug in your zip code to get local news on the site. They do have quite a bit of local content that [...]
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