Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Monday, February 18th, 2008
One of our readers, Nikolaus, sent me an email about a new version of the BlackBerry Facebook application that is now available. The new version is 1.0.0.22 which is newer than the older 1.0.0.18. The problem is that nobody can figure out what changed in the newer version. Personally I don’t see the point in [...]
9 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Internet, News, RIM
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Monica just tipped me off about an interesting new application for BlackBerry that has just entered Beta. I guess after our previous post about 3rd party email clients for BlackBerry there has been quite a bit of interest in the field. I did not realize that there was a serious demand for a third party email client [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Email, Internet, News, Utilities
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Simon at BBCool has the innate ability to see through smoke and mirrors. Or in this case a bad transparent ribbon covering a screenshot. This is on the new teaser site Viigo has created in preparation for WES. They are calling this latest release “Project Tango” promising “To Change The Way You Use Your BlackBerry.” Those [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in Internet, News, RSS
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
WorldMate just sent me an email describing a few new features they have added to the table. If you don’t know what WorldMate is then check out the description on their site. Simply put the software tracks your itinerary and travel schedule and gives you some pretty good information along the way.
To get the new version [...]
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
I just got this urgent email on my BlackBerry. It turns out that some registered users of Empower, including myself, have been getting error messages in the latest version of Empower Mail Viewer Pro. A bug seems to be causing the program to incorrectly notify you that your registration has expired. By downloading the new update [...]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
The guys at GoogleSystem have posted some great tips on how to improve your Google Mobile search. Many BlackBerry users are familiar with the customized mobile search provided by Google since March last year but Google has never bothered to explain all of the features.
Well GoogleSystem has done us a favor and detailed the top 10 uses [...]
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Review: Viigo RSS Reader
Rating:
Editors Choice Award Winner!
Website: www.viigo.com
OTA: www.getviigo.com
Cost: COMPLETELY FREE!
Version: 2.2.80
Our previous review of Viigo is over 6 months old and with the release of the new version I decide it was time to do an update. The usability features added in the latest release of Viigo really make the application shine.
The latest [...]
19 Comments » | Posted in Email, Free Software, Internet, RSS, Reviews
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
I know many people use the Handmark Zagat To Go application so I thought I would let you know that a new version has just been released. It has still not fixed the major caveat we had in our review of version 5 but it is a start. The information is still stored on the [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Internet, News, Utilities
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
The BeFTP (BEIKS FTP) client that we mentioned before is now available from the BEIKS mobile site. For some reason it is not available from the main www.BEIKS.com site. The BeFTP client is free for non-commercial use. The tricky part is that for commercial use you are required to purchase the Pro version of BeFTP [...]
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Josep just sent me a link to a free new service called CellSpin that is compatible with BlackBerry devices. I have not had a chance to check it out myself but the feature set is pretty impressive. According to their website CellSpin allows you to post pictures, text, and audio from your device to many [...]
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