Archive for the 'Internet' Category
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
I was just reading a thread on BlackBerryForums.com about a new version of BEIKS Noah Bible Viewer 4 and caught something interesting. It seems that BEIKS will shortly be releasing a free FTP client called BeFTP.
From their short description on BlackBerryForums:
We have also developed a free FTP client for BlackBerry called BeFTP. With BeFTP’s help one [...]
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
BlackBerryInsight.com got the skinny on an update to the MarketFilters free mobile quotes and analysis application we told you about previously. The new Version 2 is coming almost a year after the last release so it has a boatload of updates. The old version is still available but I recommend sticking with the new one.
From [...]
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