Archive for the 'Reviews' Category
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Some of you may have noticed that if you go to the Viigo Bulletins feed in Viigo you will now see an ad for American Express. A bit back ago we mentioned the fact that the Viigo logo banner had grown in the latest release. After speaking to Viigo CEO Mark Ruddock I now know [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, RSS, Utilities
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Yesterday I decided it was time to clean up house on my BlackBerry. All my applications were running very slow and I had less than 3Mb of free storage. The time had come to finally rectify the problem. Previously I would have just removed some programs I installed and that would be that. This time [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in BlackBerry FAQ, Editorial, Utilities
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
I will preface this post by saying that playing around with Javaloader is not for the faint of heart. If you don’t know what Javaloader is I would recommend just ignoring this post. With that said many of us have been using Javaloader.exe for quite a few years now to manually remove and add .COD [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Utilities
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
mScorecard is a pretty nifty application that allows you to maintain a golf scorecard while out on the green. They claim that it is as quick to use as paper scorecards but you can call me a sceptic. The program calculates scores, handicaps, stableford points, sidegames and advanced round statistics for up to five players simultaneously. (I [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Josep just sent me a link to a cool new tool for SQL DBAs. Idera has just release a cool new tool for mobile DBA’s offering them some peace of mind. I know quite a few DBAs that have to constantly carry around a laptop to monitor their SQL databases. This new commercial application from [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Internet, News, Utilities
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
I know this is a bit of old news after we mentioned back in December that ColorWare was going to start doing custom paint jobs for BlackBerry devices. Well it has been a few weeks and ColorWare seems to have setup their website to accept BlackBerry pain jobs. They are currently offering the service for [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in 8100 Pearl, 8300 Curve, 8800/8830, Accessories, News
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
I know the big trend now is to target women with mobile electronics but this is just overkill. GeekSugar has the skinny on the new Gold Python BlackBerry Purse. This purse by Violet May in London is just plain Fugly. I don’t know a woman who would be caught dead pulling one of these out of [...]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Concrete Software has just released Aces Solitaire which is a collection of over 15 solitaire games for $14.99. This game costs almost double what the competition charges but you are getting 15 games. This may be a perfect solution for passing the time between meetings.
The Aces Solitaire game includes FreeCell, Spider, Klondike, Pyramid, Golf, and an undisclosed [...]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
We have told you about StudentBerry before when it was announced in October but now it has finally been released for public consumption. The application costs $24.99 and is targeted towards helping students manage their tasks. Personally I wish this was around when I was in school.
Check out the software at www.studentberry.com and then you can [...]
10 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, News, Utilities
Monday, January 21st, 2008
Matthias Grundmann has struck again by releasing a Spanish to English and a German to English translation application. The application is free and is called Vocabulary Memory.
The application is meant to give you a quick translation and also help you expand your vocabulary by remembering which words you have learned already. The translations are stored [...]
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