Archive for the 'Utilities' Category
Friday, December 21st, 2007
Josep just pointed out to me a post by TeamJordan23 on PinStack about a great J2ME graphing calculator for BlackBerry called XCalc. This is perfect for all of those times you need to graph the Cos, Sin, or Tangent while on the run. I just wish I had one of these in college. I might [...]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
After writing the article on how to listen to Podcasts on your BlackBerry I had Robin of PodNova bring to my attention that I had missed another free desktop client. The Podcast website PodNova.com has a Podcast client for all 3 major OS’s.
As Luc brought up in a comment on the above mentioned post [...]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
I just read a post on GOS about a great feature that exists in Google Talk that I had never heard of before. It turns out that Google has translation Bot’s for over 18 different languages. All you have to do is add the translation Bot as a friend in Google Talk and send them [...]
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Convenience Software has just made another innovative software release. The new application is called TaskInjector and allows you to add new tasks to your BlackBerry by sending it an email. This would allow your wife secretary to send tasks to your BlackBerry for you to deal with.
To my ongoing dread, my wife already uses Outlook meeting [...]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
I completely forgot to include this in the last post about Empower HTML Mail Viewer. So far this is the changelog I have gotten from Ani, one of the developers of Empower. I put a smiley face near the ones I think are the most important. Hopefully Empower will released a complete changelog before the [...]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Empower is just about to win over many BlackBerry users with their new version of Empower HTML Mail Viewer Pro. This is a new Pro version of the Empower HTML Mail Viewer we mentioned in the past. The new version will be released on the 20th of December.
They have been working secretly in their underground [...]
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
I cannot count how many times I have been asked if there is a way to monitor data usage on your BlackBerry. I do not have this issue since I am on an unlimited plan but many other users in other countries are hobbled by limited BlackBerry data plan. For these users it has been a hit [...]
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
We have had quite a few requests from reader (the latest being from Delia) about editing their MP3 tags and album art for their BlackBerry. By editing and fixing your tags you will be able to use the album, artist, and genre filtering built into the BlackBerry Media/MP3 player. It will also let you fix all [...]
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
One of our readers, Pei, asked me how he could listen to Podcasts on his BlackBerry. The honest answer is that so far there is no easy way to subscribe to a podcast on your BlackBerry. There are a few solutions that I will detail out below but none of them are seamless and most [...]
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Normally this would be small news but personally I think this is an example of one of the best registration systems I have seen for BlackBerry software. One of the biggest problems with 3rd party applications is that when you change your BlackBerry or upgrade you have to go through the tedious process of emailing [...]
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