Archive for the 'Utilities' Category
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
I know many of you are going to ask so I will say it upfront. There is no audio/podcast support in the current public beta. With that said…
The new beta essentially enables more of those features that were disabled on the main screen of the first beta. This is still a diamond in the rough [...]
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Brian just let me know that Google Maps for BlackBerry has been updated to version 2.2.3. Once again there is no changelog from Google so we will have to figure out what changed for ourselves. Hopefully this fixes the voice search feature on devices other than the Pearl.
You can pick up the latest from:
www.google.com/gmm/
Let us [...]
14 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, Utilities
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
I just got this press release for a new 1800flowers application for BlackBerry. Turns out that their mobile website 1800flowers.mobi was not enough. They teamed up with Digby to offer an on-device portal to purchase gifts from your BlackBerry. I can kind of see this being useful for very busy professionals who always need to [...]
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
TellMe was released a bit back as a free application by Microsoft. In the beginning they only supported GPS enabled BlackBerry devices. Nikilaus just let me know that TellMe sent him an email that it now supports the 8320 and other GPS less BlackBerrys.
The latest version 1.82.12 lets GPS less users take advantage of [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Monday, August 4th, 2008
BerryCoder just released another app that I am sure many people will enjoy. When you take a picture on your BlackBerry you have to choose then and there what resolution you want to shoot it at. If you want to send it later at a lower resolution you were out of luck. ShrinkIt comes in [...]
7 Comments » | Posted in Images, News, Utilities
Monday, August 4th, 2008
BerryCoder released another free application that many of you would like. It simply lets you shoot 4 pictures with the BlackBerry camera without it making a sound. Perfect for when your taking some spy pictures to leak on BerryReview…
The app is completely free but you need to jump through a hoop or two [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Images, News, Utilities
Monday, August 4th, 2008
Fabian just let me know that I should update my copy of LaunchPads to the latest 1.6 version. This version brings quite a few more options to the table that I know many of you were waiting for.
Media files can be launched
Webpages and Numbers can be renamed to normal names
Help file included in application
More keyboard-button-functions
Launch [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Raffy just let me know that there is a new version of MyPoynt available which is version 0.9.1. They have not pushed it out for automatic update yet but you can get it from m.mypoynt.com
The new feature in this version is support for Google Mobile Maps. It will now let you see one listing at [...]
10 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Today, the BerryReview store told me that there was a new version of VR+ available. It is one of my favorite applications. If you have never read our review, you probably should.
So I checked it out. It wasn’t difficult because now they have a change log! That is one very good change already!
If you are [...]
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Raffy just let me know that Google Maps for BlackBerry version 2.2.2 is now available. I tried going to www.google.om/gmm to download but it did not find the latest version. So…
Raffy gave me the link below to directly download the app:
http://www.google.com/gmm/apps/v2.2.2/en/BlackBerry-42/GoogleMaps.jad?ver=v2.2.2&source=mobileproducts&source=m&hl=en&noss=1&eosr=on
Which did work on my OS 4.5.0.55 8310. No word yet on what features it [...]
21 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, User Submitted, Utilities