Archive for the 'Utilities' Category
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Josep sent me a link to this app and then I read about it from Kevin. I guess the camera sound is really pissing people off and resonating all around. Turns out that you have to pay $3.95 for the pleasure of silencing the picture sound on your BlackBerry.
RIM should have given us this option [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
BBSmart released a slick new shortcuts application that is awesome. The best part is that it is only $5. If you pick it up today from CrackBerry.com you get BBSmart Alarms free.
From the product description:
BBSmart Shortcuts is a fantastically simple but powerful productivity application for the BlackBerry that puts a whole suite of shortcuts at [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Review: Empower BES Mailbox
Rating: 9/10
Link: www.getempower.com
Cost: $19.99 @ the BerryReview Store
I know that this application has been mentioned before, but I just got it yesterday and I had to talk about it in greater detail!
Anyone who uses their BlackBerry on an Enterprise Server, should seriously consider this application. Empower BES MailBox has been a [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in BES, Editors' Choice, Email, Reviews, Utilities
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
One of the pet peeves many people have with the BlackBerry is that it does not support Outlook categories for anything. For example you cant set the email flags, contact categories, & task categories from your BlackBerry. It just ignores them. The guys at BBproductivity have solved one of those issues. Namely allowing you to [...]
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The Travel Channel has just released a free app that give you access to their Travel Channel show info on the go. The only problem I see is that when I usually travel my BlackBerry costs an arm and a leg for data. According to Simon this is built upon EarthComber’s application so it also [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
This one packs in more features into their product but you pay $19.95/month for the pleasure of using it. I just met with them at the Pepcom convention yesterday in Manhattan and the product looks interesting. It seems to be available for AT&T and T-Mobile on the 8300 & 8800 devices with GPS. No plans [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in GPS, News, Utilities
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
I know you might remember when we first mentioned Repligo Reader back during WES. Well their public beta that we told you to sign up for is now live. If you “forgot” to sign up for the beta you can still sign up at this link.
Cerience kindly gave us their permission to post some screenshots of [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Documents, News, Utilities
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Vlingo powered Yahoo OneSearch for BlackBerry a bit back and now they are going solo. They are offering a free service that lets you control your BlackBerry through voice. According to them it lets you “send emails and text messages, search the Web, open applications (BlackBerry, Calendar, BlackBerry, Maps, etc.), dial their phones, look up [...]
10 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, Free Software, News, Utilities
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
A bit back I was searching all over the interweb for the best way to synchronize two directories. I needed it to backup my pictures & music between 3 computers and my berry. I went though SyncToy, BeyondCompare, and quite a few others before I came across GoodSync. Its a nifty and simple utility that [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
This is a new one for me. I did not even know that this problem existed until I just tested it out. (Cant 100% confirm) It turns out that there is a bug that when you mark a task complete on your BlackBerry it will mark it as complete in Outlook but it wont remove [...]
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