Archive for the 'Utilities' Category
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
I will preface this by saying that almost all the documentation for this software is not in English. I am not sure if the software is even available stateside but it looked so promising that I had to mention it after Josep pointed it out. Don’t get your hopes up so fast since it seems [...]
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Preview: Shout Postcard Beta
Website: shoutpostcard.com
Rating: 7/10
Cost: Free!
Compatibility: BlackBerry 8300 Curve Series
I was so impressed when I installed the new Shout Postcard application that I decided to do a little minireview for you. If you are interested in the application I would highly advise installing it just to give it a run through the paces. [...]
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
I will start this off by saying that I am already doing a mini review of Shout Postcard since when I installed the application it actually surprised me by how fully featured it was. This is especially so because it is a free service. Stay tuned for the full review. One thing that did not make [...]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
It seems that GPS applications are showing up all over the place recently. The latest releases from Trimble outdoors each serve a specific purpose and actually seem quite cool. When I read about this yesterday I was not sure if I should post about it but once I tried the applications I actually saw how [...]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
I know a doctor or two who have been waiting patiently to get their medical fix from their BlackBerry. Until now many doctors have been forced to use Palm or Windows Mobile since they were the only platforms supported by most mobile medical applications. Epocrates now offers the Epocrates RX free drug and formulary reference guide [...]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
It seems that Google has once again slipped released a mobile version of their application under the radar. Googlesystem found the new mobile website for Google Notebook which allows you to write notes to your new mobile notebook. Keep in mind that there are quite a few restrictions. As Googlesystem points out there is no search option, [...]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
One of our readers just pointed me to a great website called HandyFact that has hundreds of obviously handy facts that you can access from your BlackBerry browser.
Even wondered where that area code was from? What birthstone is for each month? What your Zodiac sign is ? What the time zone is in a certain [...]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Simon at BBcool has heard from the grapevine that we should be expecting to see BlackBerry Unite in the US sometime in early December. If you remember from before BlackBerry Unite is a quasi-BES solution for personal users to share documents, media, calendar, and contacts with up to 5 people. RIM has been teasing us [...]
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
I know of a few separate resources that allow you to do calculations online but CalcNexus has the most I have seen on the same website. It has everything from Loan & Tip calculators to conversion and health calculators. It even has a pregnancy due date calculator (In case you need to do that often, especially from [...]
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
There have been multiple copies of Desktop Manager 4.3 showing up on Vodaphone’s website and others but RIM has finally released the download on their own website at this link. You have to click on the link “Download BlackBerry Device and Desktop Software” and then select Desktop Manager 4.3. There is both an English and [...]
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