Ik weet het 2 rants in één dag is veel een beetje maar ik ben nieuwsgierig om te leren wat aan deze veelbelovende toepassing gebeurde. Wij verteld u dat het terug in Mei werd vrijgegeven. Wij toen opgevolgd met instructies op hoe te om het in een mobiele website te integreren. Nu zijn wij bijna 2 later maanden en nog heb ik om een het winkelen website nog te vernemen die de toepassing steunt. Zelfs voor zo eenvoudig iets zoals kopend ringtones of behang.

De toepassing van de Portefeuille beloofde om de online het winkelen ervaring van uw Blackberry te vereenvoudigen. Ik heb om één bedrijf of website nog te vernemen dat deze toepassing steunen! Ik probeerde sprekend aan enkelen en het meest ben niet zelfs geinteresseerd daarin. Ik weet sommigen van u gaan zeggen het een beetje te vroeg aan rant is aangezien het vrij enkele ogenblikken voor websites neemt om een norm goed te keuren. Enerzijds zou de RAND moeten aanbieden om een lijst van alle websites te bevorderen die de norm steunen.

Het probleem is dat het als RAND niet zelfs hindert om de de toepassingsnorm van de Portefeuille te bevorderen schijnt. Zij hebben zelfs het niet op hun uitgevoerd www.shopblackberry.com website die door de manier zelfs geen mobiele versie heeft. Ook als zij over de toepassingengoedkeuring werkelijk ernstig waren zouden zij het met alle nieuwe apparaten omvat hebben die enkel met OS 4.5 werden vrijgegeven! Allen wij hebben is a eenvoudige beschrijving op hun website met een paar paragrafen van tekst. YAY!

Zo wat gebeurde RAND? Was de Portefeuille enkel een nadere overweging? Is dit enkel een ander Microsoft Portefeuille/Paspoort?

Laat me weten of hoorde u om het even wat!

S4BB enkel verzonden me een e-mail die me laat weten dat zij een publiek bèta voor hun nieuwe toepassing TaskMailer hebben geopend. TaskMailer laat u gemakkelijk een taak van uw Blackberry tot stand brengen en met de elektronische post versturen. Hoofdzakelijk cre�ërt u de taak en verstuurt het uit in iCal en/of vCal formaat met de elektronische post zodat u het in Vooruitzichten, iCal, of Entourage kunt invoeren. It also lets you save the task to BlackBerry at the same time.

Its also an easy way to send tasks to anyone. Since the BlackBerry understands vCards I wonder if it understands vCal’s. I will have to check it out.

You can download the Beta by going to this link from your desktop and entering in your name and email:
www.s4bb.com/the-beta-program/#taskmailer

Let us know what you think!

For quite awhile I have been looking for a good Joke website or RSS feed to give me a quick laugh every day. I know I could use one. The best I could find so far that didn’t spam me with junk mail was www.jokeornot.mobi that I heard about from www.igloo.mobi.

Essentially it just shows you a clean joke, riddle, & dirty joke of the day rotated daily. Pretty cheesy but good for a quick chuckle.

PLEASE let me know if you have found anything better. Reading Dilbert in Viigo is getting old…

I know quite a few people who have asked me if there was a keyboard shortcut to send an SMS message. Just like you can hit ‘C’ to compose an email.

BerryCoder once again comes to the rescue with QSMS. If you install this application you can use the ‘Q’ shortcut to compose an SMS!

The best part is that it is free!!!

You can pick it up OTA by going to www.berrycoder.com from your BlackBerry.

I just got an email from BerryCoder that they have released a free memory optimization application for BlackBerry. They claim it frees up to 5MB of memory on your BlackBerry no matter what the type! Not only it releases memory, you will also feel slight increase in response time. MaxMem will remove apps, themes, and files in your BlackBerry that you don’t use.

It does remove Voice Dialing, Push to talk, and quite a few other pesky applications. For now I cannot confirm these claims of freeing 5 megabytes of memory but Gareth is working on testing out MaxMem.

NOTE: Please backup your BlackBerry before trying this application!!!

You can download it OTA from www.berrycoder.com

Installation and description are after the jump!

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I was preparing all of my wrath to write a rant on higher text messages when this post by Nicholas Deleon of CrunchGear stole my thunder. Nicholas did some basic math and found that at $0.20 per 160 bytes translates into $1,310 for one megabyte (1,048,576 bytes) of text messages. Note: This assumes that you use all 160 characters of each text message.

Even if you have a 200 text message plan you are still paying 2.5 cents per text message.

I could not agree with Nicholas more. Then one of the comments by Marc reminded me of this article from back in the day. Some bored Scientist from Leicester had free time to calculate that it cost 4 times more to send a text message to a friend than it costs NASA to send the same data to the moon!

And yet I still have a $5 text message plan. (Muttering to myself!)

Wayne @ GearDiary caught wind that the Sprint Airave will be released July 15^th. I actually saw a demo of this at the Sprint corporate offices a few months back and it was beautiful. The Airave is essentially a mini cellphone tower that routes all of your calls over the internet. Kind of like UMA but without the WiFi part.

This would save you money on calls and give you reception in locations where you might not have. While I was at Sprints corporate offices I asked them if I could use the Airave while traveling. I was sad to learn that it has a built in GPS chip that only lets it work where Sprint has coverage!!! SUCKS. You also need to keep the device near a window so it can get a GPS fix.

You will need to pay for an extra service to use the Airave. According to Wayne this should be $15 for an individual or $30 for a family. You do get unlimited calling over the internet with the plan so its not a terrible deal.

Pretty interesting stuff. I think they need to lower the price and lose the GPS restriction. Check it out on Sprints site at this link.

Sprint via SprintUsers via GearDiary via BoyGenius via Speedy Gonzalez via Juan Valdez …..

Originally the BlackBerry was designed for business. Now everybody seems to have a smartphone of one sort or another. Josep pointed out to me that RIM even has a section of their site dedicated to students with some pretty crappy offers. We have mentioned the StudentBerry class/task management application previously and I am sure the Facebook application is a sure hit with students. There is also the gwhizmobile.com graphing calculator and flash cards.

It has been interesting to see that over the years the BlackBerry has moved from the business & work domain to more personal uses. It has been awhile since I was on a college campus and I feel I just have to ask…

Are you a BlackBerry toting student?
Is the BlackBerry truly useful for students?

Let us know what you think!