Archive for the 'Utilities' Category
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Josep let me know about this BeeTagg service that is free for commercial and noncommercial use. The idea of a BeeTagg is a small UPC like image that you take a picture of with your camera phone and it directs you to a specific mobile website. I have been watching this trend for awhile and [...]
8 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Internet, News, Utilities
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Electric Pocket just let me know about a new application they released for BlackBerry. It is similar to the Picture Dial application we mentioned last week but instead of a grid it uses a coverflow-like interface. You have to check out the video to understand what I mean.
Essentially you add contacts from your address book [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities
Friday, August 15th, 2008
UPDATE: There seems to be a serious problem with this version of the application. Many readers are reporting that once they install it they can no longer log into WorldMate from their BlackBerry. Please hold off for now.
Tom just let me know that WorldMate has updated its software to version 2.0. There is not a [...]
14 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
I know many people have been waiting for this since they have been building up quite a bit of hype. I received an email from Pocket Informant about the beta release.
You can read about the release on their forums the download links are at the bottom of this post. NOTE: Make sure to read bullet [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in Calendar/Tasks, News, Utilities
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
This is an idea I bounced off a bit back and I am glad it finally got some traction. A friend of mine asked me about 2 months ago if there was a way to ignore a incoming call and automatically reply with an SMS message. He told me that he had this option on [...]
7 Comments » | Posted in News, User Submitted, Utilities
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Josep just let me know about the release of these two betas. From the forums it seems like they were released about 2 weeks ago so I am sure many of you know about it already. For those of you who didn’t (including myself) consider this a heads up. Feel free to rag on [...]
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Emily let me know that the developer of BBNotePad has released the final version of the application on BlackBerryForums. In case you don’t know, BBNotePad is a free text file editor/creator application for BlackBerry. It simply lets you save, edit, & create text files on your BlackBerry SD card or memory. The developer also added [...]
12 Comments » | Posted in Documents, Free Software, News, Utilities
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Vizzion just let me know that their commercial BlackBerry application is out of beta. It essentially lets you watch screenshots of traffic cameras in North America, Ireland, New Zealand, and the UK. They have over 7,500 cameras in 150+ major cities. The application is not free but does have a reasonable $29/year or $5/month subscription.
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Stefano just let me know that GPSed released a new version of their GPS tracklog application. They definitely seem to be on their last beta release of GPSed unless they have plans for version .9999.
The new version lets you share tracks on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Blogger. They also added a new auto-zooming [...]
8 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, Utilities
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Thomas let me know that Tiggit is out of beta. It is essentially a IMAP. POP3, & SMTP client for your BlackBerry. The cool part is that it supports IMAP idle which gives you almost push email for many email accounts. Tiggit is a separate email client from the native BlackBerry client. Its a great [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Email, News, Utilities