Archive for the 'Utilities' Category
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
Friday, August 8th, 2008
In an interesting twist from their PictureID application Toysoft has released Picture Dial. It is essentially a customizable speed-dial application based on pictures. It lets you dial a contact, send an SMS/email, or browse a website just by clicking pictures. There does seem to be a trial available and you can pick it up for [...]
7 Comments » | Posted in Images, News, Utilities
Friday, August 8th, 2008
A reader just sent us this little tidbit of news. We told you about EZ Reregister before but it required a yearly subscription fee. They have now decided to remove the subscription fee for Basic accounts. I listed the difference between the basic and premium accounts below:
The basic account lets you store your application registration [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, Utilities
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
A bit back we told you about FakeCall which replicates a fake phone call on your BlackBerry. We even did a review and were impressed. Now AIMproductions has decided to come up with their own version of the application. Actually it looks very similar but has a few differentiating features. Not really sure if there [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Raffy just let me know that there has been a new release of the free WeatherBug application to fix a few small issues. Not sure if you are experiencing any issues but if you are I would recommend downloading the latest version. Turns out there was a profile and alert issue that is fixed in [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Free Software, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
I know many of you are going to ask so I will say it upfront. There is no audio/podcast support in the current public beta. With that said…
The new beta essentially enables more of those features that were disabled on the main screen of the first beta. This is still a diamond in the rough [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, RSS, Utilities
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Brian just let me know that Google Maps for BlackBerry has been updated to version 2.2.3. Once again there is no changelog from Google so we will have to figure out what changed for ourselves. Hopefully this fixes the voice search feature on devices other than the Pearl.
You can pick up the latest from:
www.google.com/gmm/
Let us [...]
14 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, Utilities
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
I just got this press release for a new 1800flowers application for BlackBerry. Turns out that their mobile website 1800flowers.mobi was not enough. They teamed up with Digby to offer an on-device portal to purchase gifts from your BlackBerry. I can kind of see this being useful for very busy professionals who always need to [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, Utilities
Monday, August 4th, 2008
TellMe was released a bit back as a free application by Microsoft. In the beginning they only supported GPS enabled BlackBerry devices. Nikilaus just let me know that TellMe sent him an email that it now supports the 8320 and other GPS less BlackBerrys.
The latest version 1.82.12 lets GPS less users take advantage of [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Monday, August 4th, 2008
BerryCoder just released another app that I am sure many people will enjoy. When you take a picture on your BlackBerry you have to choose then and there what resolution you want to shoot it at. If you want to send it later at a lower resolution you were out of luck. ShrinkIt comes in [...]
7 Comments » | Posted in Images, News, Utilities