Archive for the 'Reviews' Category
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Branded FreeRange based RSS readers seem to be quite popular recently. The Wall Street Journal just released one and now FierceWireless has announced their own. The reader looks good and is essentially a branded version of FreeRange from what I can tell with Fierce websites built in. You can add your own RSS feeds [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, RSS, User Submitted, Utilities
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
A bit back we told you that Vlingo had released a private beta to fix some of the connection bugs users were experiencing. The fix was promised for August so the beginning of September is pretty good! I just got an email from Vlingo announcing the new open beta to all and detailing the new [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, User Submitted
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
A friend of mine is a bit of a Twitter addict. He discovered a cool Java Twitter application that works with BlackBerrys and decided to share. The application is nice and small but is not totally customized for the BlackBerry so the menu and navigation are a bit clunky. On the other hand the application [...]
7 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Internet, News, Utilities
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
The new model OtterBox for the BlackBerry Bold (Part #: 1937) is now available for pre-order at OtterBox.
Description from their site: “The OtterBox for BlackBerry® Bold™ Defender™ Series will offer you ultimate protection, with a slim and sophisticated look. Three layers wrap your phone in pure, 100% guaranteed PROTECTION. A plastic, Thermal-Formed sheet covers your [...]
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
UPDATE: Just got an email from BBSmart with an official changelog:
Fixed up miscellaneous bugs affecting 8330 and early OS 4.5 users
Reduced battery impact
Can now pick unique colors for each alarm
Can now change snooze time on the fly
Minor graphical tweaks throughout
I was just getting ready to hunker down for the evening, when I received an email [...]
11 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
I am not quite sure who this application is targeted at but the idea is interesting. ToySoft created KoolSounds to let you set custom notifications during certain system events. For example, if you wanted your Berry to beep when you have low battery or it has fully charged. The application is relatively low at $5.95 [...]
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Apparently we’re not the only ones doing a sale this Labor Day season! S4BB has their GTD (Getting Things Done) TaskMaster program on sale for $9.99! The original price on this application is $29.99 so this is a major discount for this application.
Personally, I think that the built in task application is just fine, but [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, News, Utilities
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Tim just sent us a tip that Bplay has released Guitar Hero III Backstage Pass on their website. I did not get a formal announcement about it yet so this might just be a soft launch. The game looks pretty cool and with the original still clocking in at second place on their best sellers [...]
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Review: SeeThru Hard Shell Case & Holster for BlackBerry Curve
Rating: 7/10
Link: www.speckproducts.com
Cost: $24.95 @ BerryReview Store
Speck released their new line of colored SeeThru cases for the Pearl a couple of weeks back. See pictures here.
Speck Products sent me a few of their BlackBerry products a couple of weeks back so that we could take [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in 8300 Curve, Cases, Hardware, News, Reviews
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
I just got an email about this interesting new enterprise solution announced by Vayyoo today. It looks to be targeted at enterprises but I think it would also make for a great consumer application. Essentially allows you to create a mashup of voice, text, images, & your GPS location that you can upload to a [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities