While I was at CES I came across a live demo Gracenote on a BlackBerry 8300 Curve. Most of you will have no idea what Gracenote is unless you have used it before. Gracenote is a whitelabel software company that provides software for devices to manage and identify music. Whitelabel means that they don’t sell [...]

Review: Empower InstaSpell - Inline Spellcheck
Rating: 9/10
Editors Choice Award Winner!
Version: 1.31
Link: www.getempower.com
OTA: www.getempower.com/ota/
Cost: $15 Trial Available
Empower InstaSpell has been around for quite awhile now but after RIM came out with a free native spell checker I thought it would be irrelevant. Now that I have had a few months to play with the native [...]

Recently we posted about a rant by Neil, the developer of BBSmart HTML Email Viewer, on his blog DevBerry.com. It seems that Neil is not alone. Jonathan Fisher, the developer of BlackBerry Web Shortcuts and a few freebie games, has added his thoughts to the mix.
Both of these developers are essentially making some very similar complaints. RIM has not [...]

Not sure exactly which devices are compatible with this theme but I am sure It works on the Curve and Pearl series devices. The theme is actually quite slick and is designed by Scott Campbell the Tattoo artist. Scott is releasing a new line of decal stickers (called tattoos) for BlackBerry but I have not [...]

…and now it looks worse than it did before! Seriously will RIM ever learn? In June we mentioned how RIM had redesigned its mobile.blackberry.com site from the cool flashy homepage to a new static one. They also removed many of the free games they had previously offered and now only rotated them.
I will preface the [...]

RIM is giving away copies of Holiday Midnight Pool for the BlackBerry Curve and Pearl series devices. This game seems to be Gameloft’s Holiday Midnight Pool game for the BlackBerry.
The downloads are available from the BlackBerry Owners Lounge and do not have OTA options. I never really understood RIM’s reasoning for separating their mobile site [...]

I am paranoid about security so I found this Knowledgebase article by RIM very useful. In this article RIM describes the exact steps you need to take to put your BlackBerry device in lockdown. It does not include instructions on how to encrypt the memory card and device memory but that is a straight forward [...]

It seems like T-mobile has decided to push out a link to all of their BlackBerry subscribers for their Facebook application. I have already received two emails about it so I thought I would let everybody else in on the details.
RIM and T-mobile have pushed out a link to many T–mobile BlackBerry users that puts [...]