Archive for the 'Utilities' Category
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
The IT News has just published a press release whereby MO-Call announces the addition of the Blackberry platform to their list of supported phones. I had never heard of MO-Call before, but apparently it is popular in the UK. If you crave using their service but never did because your Blackberry was not supported, you’ve [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
I know many of you have been using Antair’s call screener application to avoid your stalkers. I just got an email from them that they have updated their product with some cool new features. I have not had a chance to try it out myself but there is a trial available if you are interested.
Features: [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Mini Review: LaunchPads
Rating: 8/10
Cost: $5.00
Fabian Heuwieser has created a new application for our BlackBerrys that will give you the ability to launch a menu of multiple apps with the touch of a single convenience side key.
This app is called LaunchPads. Every time you hit the side convenience button (which you program LaunchPads to launch [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Vringo has just updated their free Facebook photo caller ID application. They just announced the update on PinStack. This latest version finally lets you use the native contact fields on your BlackBerry instead of a whole new photo caller ID application.
You can read more about the application at this link www.vringo.com/facebook/
You can also download & install the [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Also mentioned in Funambol’s release was something I was not expecting. They have released an end user solution for free currently that lets you sync your BlackBerry contacts and calendar with their website OTA. According to them it will also sync to Outlook and your iPod so we may have a great sync solution here.
The [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
I know Funambol has been my underdog for quite awhile now. They have promised to provide opensource PIM sync to the BlackBerry and they seem to be on the way to delivering it.
I don’t know how many of you are using Funambol but according to their latest press release they just released a new client.
Read [...]
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Stefano sent me a link to a post on PinStack by the developer of a new application called bbChecklist. The application seems to be a simple checklist application for your BlackBerry. He is asking for users interested in Beta testing the application.
From the developers description:
The purpose is to provide a simple tool that can be used to [...]
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
You get the picture. I just got an email from one of our readers, Derek, that the service finally went live. ShoZu lets you simply upload pictures from your BlackBerry to a ton of different social networks. It currently has 30+ different locations to upload to. You can even email and FTP the pictures. Supposedly [...]
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Some of you may remember when we first mentioned SnapScreen as a on device screenshot application. The problem was that the application was limited to OS 4.3+. It turns out that the developers managed to find a way to make it work with OS 4.2.2+ but with one caveat. You will only be able to [...]
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
The developer, Fabian, has been on a crusade to add small little features to the BlackBerry OS. His latest creation is called BlinkWhileCall and does one simple thing. It makes your BlackBerry LED blink Purple when you are getting a call and it is on silent. This way you can visually see the difference between [...]
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