Archive for the 'Utilities' Category
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
I have not had a chance to try this one out myself so take this at face value. Slifter just released a BlackBerry application with a pretty interesting feature set. It helps you find products and deals based on your current location. You can just search for a product and find a promo or [...]
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Zaventh has decided to make use of our DreamBerry idea. Greg posted about a message scheduling application on July 7th. On July 27th, Zaventh announced that he is almost ready to release MessageScheduler. An application that will let you schedule an email or PIN to be sent at a future date and time. This is [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in DreamBerry, Email, News, Utilities
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I just got an update on the BBText2IM thread on PinStack. Turns out that Wheatoncs has released the final beta of their BBText2IM threaded SMS application for BlackBerry we told you about before.
New in this beta:
Support for archiving conversations via email
TOTAL font/screen color customization in the main program, and in individual conversations
Initial support for CDMA [...]
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
RIM released a PGP addon for BES a bit back that truly left smaller customers out in the cold. Atomic Helix has decided to pick up where RIM left off by offering a way for regular consumers to use PGP on their BlackBerrys.
The software works with OS 4.1 and higher but due to some [...]
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
SameCell just let us know that they released an updated version to their new 2.0 that we just mentioned. Turns out that some users with OS 4.3 & 4.5 were having their BlackBerry freeze when they tried to add a friend.
SameCell got right on the problem and has released an updated version 2.05 to address [...]
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
A bit back we told you how Pocket Informant is coming to a BlackBerry near you soon. Then we only had a small paragraph describing what the application will do.
Brian just let me know that there is now a product page for Pocket Informant for BlackBerry. You can sign up over there to be [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, News, Utilities
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Astrasync is trying to position itself as the middle ground between BIS and BES. We have mentioned it before because we find the idea very interesting. Currently BlackBerry users have the choice Between email only BIS and expensive BES. They also always had the 3rd option of buggy SyncML which never worked for anybody. [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, Email, News, Utilities
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I will start off by saying that this application is definitely a work in progress. I went through all of their hoops to install it and while it did work the screen kept on flashing at me like it was trying to induce a seizure. I am only mentioning it because I hope others might [...]
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Now this is a new application idea that I find interesting. Do you know how you get the name of the caller along with the number on your home phone? Do you get many calls from callers that are not in your address book?’
I know I do which is why Privus Mobile is interesting. [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
PLEASE NOTE: The BlackBerry application did not work for me since I got an error that said: Error starting ZipClip: Symbol ‘playerlistener.i’ not found. I will be keeping an eye on the application as it progresses. Since it is still in beta I am willing to forgive it not working yet. I have written a [...]
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