Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Friday, May 16th, 2008
When I wrote about Page2RSS last week one of our readers who refers to himself as TallGlassOfMilk let me know about another cool service. I had never heard of Dapper.net and finally got a chance to try it out. I have to say I am impressed with the results. It lets you turn a [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The Opera Mini Beta version 4.1 has finally been officially released. Just found out from a post by James @ CrackBerry. The official version has over 150 bug fixes from the beta so its worth upgrading.
From the announcement on the Opera Mini Blog:
Among other things they’ve have adjusted is how the “Save Page” function works and also [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Josep just sent me a link to a random blog in Spanish that announces the release of a BlackBerry blogging application / client for Typepad. The application installs on your Berry and lets you:
Create content and post to your blog from your BlackBerry
Save draft posts for editing or publishing later
Take photos and upload them to [...]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Maufait for those of you who have never used it provides a BlackBerry shortcut to their FREE online content for your area, such as Weather, News, Stocks, Movies playing, Flights, and more. I’ve just learned they’ve released a new version to fix some existing issues (faster), and the home screen shortcut has been redone [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
I just got confirmation from one of our longtime readers, another Ronen, that the BlackBerry Unite version from Bell works on AT&T and is not carrier dependent!!!
Pretty amazing stuff. He got the Bell-Canada copy, installed it and it is working amazingly on his at&t blackberry. It looks awesome, can sync and share: Calendar, Contacts, access [...]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Not sure if this is your cup of tea but I know many people who are really interested in this kind of stuff. The website KJVBible was emailed to me by one of our readers. It gives you access to the new and old testament from your BlackBerry browser. Pretty cool…
You can access it by [...]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Nikolaus also reminded me about a great free service that lets you monitor traffic cameras in quite a few large cities. I listed a few below but you can catch the full list at this link.
The traffic camera images are updated every 3 to 10 minutes and will show you a picture in your browser. [...]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
I was just reading about a great service on Google Systems Blog. It is called Page2RSS and allows you to turn any page you want into an RSS feed. Pretty cool stuff if I may say so myself. It checks the website every 4 hours for updates. This is great for monitoring your alumni homepage [...]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
I must be a moron since I have never heard of Bank of America’s mobile site until now even though it has been around since last year. Well I decided to rectify my mistake by mentioning it to all of you who may happen to be Bank of America customers.
The website is really cool and [...]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
One of our readers just sent in this application that looks cool but for the life of me I cannot read Spanish. (Google translate is not helping much) It seems to be a competitor with SHAPE’s Mobiscope application that allows you to monitor your surveillance cameras from your BlackBerry. Truthfully I cannot imagine this working [...]
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