The good guys at have given us a glimmer of hope for a BlackBerry charging station solution. I know many people have been waiting for the official BlackBerry Charging Station accessory that keeps on having its release date pushed back. BerryBuddy hopes to fill the void for BlackBerry 8100 Pearl devices. Hopefully one of these [...]

There are now 3 different ways to get disco lights on your BlackBerry Pearl. The latest one in the group just showed up today from MobiReport called Pimp My Berry. The second is Colour Your Trackball by CWorx. The third one is a free application called ColorPearl created by Geeks & Proud AKA MetsFan. The [...]

I have been hearing many complaints from Verizon subscribers on how GPS is crippled on their new 8830’s. People have been discussing it on the forums for a few months now and today it was just covered by Dave in his US News Blog. This is really frustrating since it seems that AT&T will be [...]

The JAR 2 ALX converter by Brandon Swift that we mentioned earlier has gotten some much needed upgrade love. The new version 1.2 has a new design, new options, and better help file. Brandon has also fixed some alx errors which called an XML problem. He has also updated the program so that it [...]

As we mentioned before Cross River Systems will hopefully be releasing PocketDay v5 later this week and I just got my hands on the full feature list of the new V5.
General

New PocketDay Icon
New Crisp 3-D sections
New Anti-Alias / Effect support on Fonts
New Text Message Section
New Memo Section (OS 4.2 and [...]

Cross River Systems will hopefully be releasing PocketDay v5 later this week so here is a sneak peak at the release version. Before reading this you should read the review of PocketDay v4 which was awarded the Editors Choice Award. All of the features of PocketDay v4 are included in v5 with the addition of [...]

A couple readers asked me if I knew of a 3rd party IMAP client for BlackBerry devices and I let them know about LogicMail. LogicMail is a J2ME E-Mail client supporting IMAP and POP which is designed to run on BlackBerry devices. The new version .3.1 of LogicMail is a serious upgrade from older versions [...]

X-BerrySoft has announced the Beta release of xPlayer, a new free Media Player for BlackBerry devices. X-BerrySoft is planning on making this player the best media player for BlackBerry devices so give them some help by beta testing xPlayer. So far there is only a Desktop Manager download available at this link. X-BerrySoft is asking [...]

Apsquared.net is offering two free applications that allow you to track either MLB or NFL teams from your BlackBerry. The applications are pretty simplistic with the MLB version called MLB Tracker and the NFL version called NFL Tracker. The programs even have a nice “Watch The Game” feature that allows you to get the play [...]

I was asked again today about solutions for Subway / Metro maps on your BlackBerry. So far I know of two graphical solutions. The first one is MetroViewer and is free, the second is Visual IT Tube 2 which is commercial. Tube 2 seems to be the easiest to use and looks the best but [...]