Archive for the 'Utilities' Category
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Review: powerOne 1.0
Rating: 8.8/10
Cost: $ 49.95
OTA installation
Believe it or not, this is the fifth installment of the old calculator roundup. After so long, I am sure that many people thought I would never finish it. These people were not far off the mark. I’ve been really unable to contribute to BerryReview, so much [...]
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Josep let me know about a new Signal location tool that was just released on BBForums. The author describes it as a utility that captures and displays details about your network connection and location. In short this is for the geek inside us all…
Features:
Displays network information such as signal level, services supported, cell [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Review: Electric Pocket’s TxtForward
Rating: 6.5
Link: http://electricpocket.com
Cost: $7.95 @ The BerryReview Store
TxtForward is a very simple application with a huge potential. The software takes incoming SMS messages and forwards them to the email address of your choice. Now many people wonder “Why in the heck would I want to do this?” Well, there are many [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Mike from gWhiz reminded me that back to school season is right around the corner. I thought it would be a great time to remind everybody about the 3 free applications that gWhiz released not to long ago. These applications are mostly targeted towards students. The three are:
gFlash+ - A flashcard and trivia application [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, Utilities
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
I have not had a chance to try this one out myself so take this at face value. Slifter just released a BlackBerry application with a pretty interesting feature set. It helps you find products and deals based on your current location. You can just search for a product and find a promo or [...]
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Zaventh has decided to make use of our DreamBerry idea. Greg posted about a message scheduling application on July 7th. On July 27th, Zaventh announced that he is almost ready to release MessageScheduler. An application that will let you schedule an email or PIN to be sent at a future date and time. This is [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in DreamBerry, Email, News, Utilities
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I just got an update on the BBText2IM thread on PinStack. Turns out that Wheatoncs has released the final beta of their BBText2IM threaded SMS application for BlackBerry we told you about before.
New in this beta:
Support for archiving conversations via email
TOTAL font/screen color customization in the main program, and in individual conversations
Initial support for CDMA [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in IM Services, News, Utilities
Monday, July 28th, 2008
RIM released a PGP addon for BES a bit back that truly left smaller customers out in the cold. Atomic Helix has decided to pick up where RIM left off by offering a way for regular consumers to use PGP on their BlackBerrys.
The software works with OS 4.1 and higher but due to some [...]
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
SameCell just let us know that they released an updated version to their new 2.0 that we just mentioned. Turns out that some users with OS 4.3 & 4.5 were having their BlackBerry freeze when they tried to add a friend.
SameCell got right on the problem and has released an updated version 2.05 to address [...]
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
A bit back we told you how Pocket Informant is coming to a BlackBerry near you soon. Then we only had a small paragraph describing what the application will do.
Brian just let me know that there is now a product page for Pocket Informant for BlackBerry. You can sign up over there to be [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, News, Utilities