Archive for the 'Reviews' Category
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Ever needed to broadcast a message to a group of people through SMS. My wife does it all the time when we have BBQ’s and parties. She has to set her Berry to send a text message to each recipient. First of all each one of those outgoing messages counts against her monthly SMS [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in IM Services, News
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Nikolaus let me know that WeatherEye has been upgraded from version 1.0.17 to 1.0.21. The upgrade requires a reboot and does not seem to have any drastic changes. On the other hand I know a few readers were having issues with the application so maybe this will fix it.
You can pick up the latest version [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities
Friday, September 5th, 2008
My younger brother has been using this cool service for awhile from FreeConferenceCall.com. They have offered a free & very easy to use conference calling solution for quite awhile but recently I noticed that they also offer free international call in numbers! So far they offer free international conference calls with local numbers in Austria, [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Josep let me know that SpotJots has announced a new feature that some people might appreciate. It is essentially a slick widget that lets you publish your location to all of your profiles. This includes:
MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, TypePad, MyYearbook, Vista, Yahoo!, Google, Live, hi5, Xanga, Friendster, BlackPlanet, Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress, PageFlakes, Orkut and VOX
It [...]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
It looks like the next iteration of Project Tango will be showing up next week with some cool new features. My favorite is the ability to customize the homescreen channels to my taste by adding and removing options.
Other new features include:
Flight status & search via Flightstats.com
Kijiji classifieds
Currency exchange rates
Additional sports coverage (NCAA)
Application performance improvements
Better memory [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Free Software, News, RSS, User Submitted
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Anybody who has used the RIM AIM client will know that there is a stupid restriction where it only allows you to see your Mobile Buddies group. To make matters worse it will only show you a maximum of 30 buddies in your Mobile Buddies group. The first time you sign into the AIM mobile [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in IM Services, News, User Submitted
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Kyle let me know about a review he did of the vPost enterprise application we mentioned before. vPost is currently only targeting enterprise customers but from what I hear a consumer focused application is in the pipeline. Something along the lines of a Wordpress or other posting compatible client. This could also make for a [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in News, Utilities
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Frank pointed out to me that Concrete also released two other new games this week. The first is Lawn Darts which is a classic backyard game that kids are not allowed to play anymore. The second is Constructo Combat which is a 3D spaceship game. Both games are a bit expensive in my opinion [...]
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Review: JAVOedge Leather Case for Curve
Rating: 10/10
Link: www.javoedge.com
Cost: $19.95 @ JAVOedge.com’s Store
I did a review on the JAVOedge Leater Side Pouch before, and I promised that there would be a review on the Leather Case for the Curve to come! So for your consideration I present this review to you.
JAVOedge has really out [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in 8300 Curve, Accessories, Cases, Editors' Choice, Hardware, News, Reviews
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Talk about exciting news. Bplay just let me know that they have cut their prices significantly beginning this morning. These price drops will last for “an extended period of time at minimum” according to Bplay so there is no specific end date.
All of their top titles are now $6.99 with the exception of Guitar Hero [...]
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