Archive for the 'Internet' Category
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 [...]
17 Comments » | Posted in 8300 Curve, 8800/8830, BES, Free Software, Internet, News, Utilities
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 [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in Internet, News
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 [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in Editorial, Internet, RSS
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 [...]
13 Comments » | Posted in Internet, News
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 [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Internet, News, Utilities, Video
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
One of our readers who wishes to remain nameless just let me know about this nifty new service called Xpenser. What this service does it allow you easily send your expenses to this service. It allows you to do this through multiple methods.
You can email, SMS, IM, or even call in your expenses from your [...]
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I know we mentioned Unyverse back in December but some serious changes have been made since then which warrant mention. First of all they changed their name to Upvise after they started courting business customers. My favorite feature that I am trying right now is the ability to create a shopping list on their website [...]
9 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, Free Software, Internet, Utilities
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Been having trouble with BBweather? YWeather may be your free alternative. Jason Emerick just told me about his latest brain child that he created for himself and has kindly shared with the BlackBerry community.
The application simply gets the weather information from Yahoo’s weather data API and spits it out on your BlackBerry. It supports US [...]
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