Archive for the 'Utilities' Category
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Packet8, one of the big VOIP players, has released a new application for BlackBerry at CES. Personally there are quite a few others already doing this so I did not post about it earlier. The PR rep at the booth promised that the BlackBerry application will automatically recognize your international calls and send them through Packet8 without any call [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
The image above is the last thing I ever want to see on my BlackBerry Curve. The PhoneBAK Anti-Theft solution we mentioned before has been released and can be picked up for $24.90 from the Bak2U website. The new PhoneBAK software works with every BlackBerry OS except for the Curve but Curve support is [...]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
There has been quite a bit of interest in the MiniMoni Traffic Tracking application for BlackBerry recently. The application is free and just came out with a few Beta fixes that many users who were having problems will appreciate. According to the developer, AxelE, the new version should fix some of the issues with OS [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Internet, News, Utilities
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Jack Kapica of the Globe & Mail has just done a mini roundup of the digital pens currently available. The first in the roundup is actually the PaperIQ For BlackBerry pen that lets you write on a specific notebook and your handwriting will automatically be inputed to your BlackBerry over Bluetooth.
I think this is pretty [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Accessories, Bluetooth, News, Utilities
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
SHAPE just released the beat of GPSed which is a spinoff application that allows you to save tracklogs that you can later map out on Google Earth. Currently the leader for tracklogs is MobileTracker but that costs $24 while GPSed is free.
You need to get a login by going to GPSed.com from your PC. You can [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in 8300 Curve, 8800/8830, Free Software, GPS, News, Utilities
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Review: GridMagic For BlackBerry
Rating: 7.5/10
Link: www.simprit.com
Free Personal Version: www.simprit.com/free
Price: Ranges from free to $49.9
For anyone who has ever used Microsoft Excel in there their profession then this could be a very handy program. GridMagic allows you to perform just about all of the options you have on the desktop version but with the [...]
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Empower HTML Mail Viewer Pro Edition that we told you about before has finally been released. The new version costs $29.99 and adds a ton of new features. Sadly the new version is currently only compatible with OS 4.2.1 and up including OS 4.3 but a version for older OS’s is supposed to be out [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Coupons, Email, News, Utilities
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 [...]
10 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Multimedia, News, Utilities
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 [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in BlackBerry FAQ, IM Services, News, Utilities