Archive for the 'Reviews' Category
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Three different readers sent in this tip so I thought it was worth mentioning. The latest version released on September 5th fixes some bugs and adds support for OS 4.5 & 4.6. Its nice to see how popular this application is with students.
Full changelog:
Fixed Create Class start/end time error experienced by several users
Added support [...]
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Josep brought the Zkout beta to my attention and I thought the service warranted a mention. Zkout is essentially a Twitter like website that lets you send out messages based on your location. Kind of reminds me of a Facebook status along with Twitter style messages.
From what I can tell Loopt and Where seem [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Mobile Websites, News, Utilities
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Josep let me know that PocketDay just released version 5.4 of their popular application. The new version brings quite a few new features to the table along with support for the BlackBerry Bold.
New features in version 5.4:
BlackBerry Bold support
Added support for multiple calendars on OS 4.6+
Added Voicemail indicator support for Voicemail services like youmail.com, phonetag.com, [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, Email, News, Utilities
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
It turns out that the NFL Mobile Live application we mentioned yesterday from Sprint is compatible with quite a few other carriers. So far it has been confirmed to work on a:
Verizon 8330
T-Mobile 8320
Verizon 8830
8130 USC
Sadly it does not seem to work for the Bold currently. Also there is no digital signature according to DavidB [...]
7 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, User Submitted
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Review: RexRegina’s Morgan Case
Rating: 8.5/10
Link: www.RexRegina.com
Cost: $44.95 @ The BerryReview Store
This has to be one of the nicest BlackBerry cases that I have ever had the opportunity to review. Note that when I say nice, I am speaking only about the quality of the case itself. The case is made from the nicest Italian [...]
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Have you ever needed to have people call you but don’t want to give out your personal number? Well you are in luck. As I was browsing through cnet news I ran into an article on their site about a free service offered by www.letscall.me. Its a very simple and easy to use service. Letscall.me [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Internet, Mobile Websites, News
Monday, September 8th, 2008
After mentioning myMiaMia I felt I had to mention ChaCha. ChaCha lets you simply SMS or call in a question and you will get an answer back from a human or what they call a guide. The service is free but sadly unlike myMiaMia you cannot use email so SMS or voice charges from your [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, Utilities
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Joe let us know that Sprint released a NFL application for BlackBerry that may work on other carriers. I am not much of an NFL fan so I cannot comment on the quality of the application but it does look very nice! Especially for a free application.
The application does not advertise itself [...]
23 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, Sprint / Nextel, User Submitted
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