Archive for the 'RSS' 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 [...]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
I was just reading a Forbes article one of our readers, Michael, sent in that mentions that NewsGator is now giving away their mobile feed reader for free. The NewsGator Go! application used to cost a hefty $29.99 which was a terrible proposition compared to the free Viigo RSS reader. This may give Viigo a [...]
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
I installed the new version of Viigo after we mentioned the update earlier this week. I have used Viigo everyday since it was called NewsClip back in the day. This makes it hard to write the following criticism. The software is free and does work like a charm…BUT (This is a big one)
The truth is that the [...]
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
I just got an email about an interesting new program for BlackBerry devices. The program is Unyverse and is in public beta (This whole beta thing is getting old quickly). I have installed it on my phone and it does seem to have some interesting features but I am still dumbfounded as to why I would actually use [...]
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
The latest version of Viigo 2.2.7 has been in beta for a bit now and is finally ready for public consumption. This is the same Viigo that got a 9/10 rating in our last review. Simon at BBCool got a handle on the new features in the release.
New features in version 2.2.7
Registration wizard
Optional guided tour [...]
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
I know many readers use FreeRange so I thought this may be of interest. Some users are still preferring the older version 2.2.6 but this version seems to have some nice enhancements. Thanks Luc-Movel for the heads up. To install go to http://mwap.at from your BlackBerry browser.
Note: For Blackberry upgrading from version 2.2.6, it’s very [...]
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
It seems that there is no shortage nowadays of BlackBerry RSS contendders but another free BlackBerry RSS reader called Mobispine has just been released for public consumption. To be honest I have not had a chance to play with the program myself so I cannot make any promises just yet especially since the program is [...]
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Opera just released the new beta version 3 of Opera Mini at their Rock Opera event. The new version sports some nifty new features including transition effects and bookmark synchronization. The biggest impression the new beta gave me was the speed at which it now lets you view pages. The innovative zoom feature is super [...]
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Well since I had my first BlackBerry there has been a slew of RSS readers that have come out one after the other. The most recent I have discovered is called FreeRange. This is actually the software that NewsGator To Go is based on. The software is Free for up to 10 feeds and has [...]
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
I was reading an article by Dennis at WapReview.com about the new beta version of Bloglines Mobile. I know many BlackBerry users that swear by Bloglines so I decided to announce it for those who did not know about this new Beta. In case you don’t know what Bloglines is: [from Wikipedia]
Bloglines is a web-based [...]
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