UPDATE: We were told that you should remove the RIM TOOLS FOLDER from 4.6.0.156 or else you will install RIM’s QUINCY application…

Sorry everybody but it was the Jewish New Year over the past two days so I was AWOL. While I was away we got tips for quite a few OS versions for the Bold so I thought I would start the catchup from there.

Secret Agent 001 sent in 4.6.0.156
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6WFKRXYE

Secret Agent 001 & 002 also sent in 4.6.0.154
http://sendspace.com/file/pm2kwy

Thanks again to our secret agents! Let us know if you notice anything different.

NOTE: Do not install this software if you do not know what you are doing. It may make your BlackBerry FUBAR or just plain angry.

Paula let me know that EA has released SimCity for BlackBerry. When I heard about it I suddenly had flashbacks of SimCity 2000 from back in the day… Anybody feel the same? It turns out that the graphics of SimCity for BlackBerry look similar to the classic. The game is an expensive $14.99 at Handmark with no trial but this is SimCity… I can only imagine what kind of natural disasters show up in this version. (Red dinosaurs…Seriously?)

From the description:

Design and build the city of your dreams on your mobile phone. Try to attract as many Sims as possible to your new metropolis.Take on the roles of Mayor and City Planner as you design and build the city of your dreams on your mobile phone. Choose a map and then zone residential, commercial, and industrial areas. Install roads and railways, police and fire stations, parks and stadiums, and more, but be prepared to deal with crime, pollution, fires, tornados, and even attacking monster. All this while keeping a balanced budget! Your ultimate goal is to attract as many Sims as possible to your thriving new metropolis.

Features:

• Build cities on multiple game maps, each with a unique set of challenges.
• You control the pace of development-if your city develops too fast, slow down the simulation so you can get a handle on things.
• Take charge of the city budget and decide where best to spend taxpayers’ hard-earned Simoleons. Keep the treasury in the black but don’t overtax your citizens or they may leave!
• Eight tool categories give you the ability to plan, zone, build, bulldoze, re-zone, and manage your city.
• Get the information you need-review residential, commercial, and industrial statistics, check land values, and monitor crime, pollution, and traffic levels to determine which areas need the most attention.
• Help your citizens cope with and recover from tornados and other natural disasters.

I know I have received the “Message truncated due to size” error before on my BlackBerry and was always wondering what it meant. Turns out that according to this knowledgebase article there is a max email size of 8Mb on BIS. Due to the Base64 encoding overhead that 8MB figure translates into about a 5Mb max on emails on your BlackBerry.

Another mystery solved…

Since I started using the Bold I had trouble taking screenshots with my older version of the free BBScreenShooter application. (Version 1.61 I think) Turns out that the good guys at Oppitronic have released an update since I last downloaded the application to bring the latest version to 1.62b. This version supports the 7xxx, 8xxx, & 9xxx series BlackBerrys so it should serve us well for quite awhile.

I just wanted to let everybody know about the updated version and send out a public thanks to Oppitronic for making such a valuable tool available for free!

Check out the latest version at this link or head directly to the download page at this link.

This is another website I ran into recently that I bookmarked on my BlackBerry. It’s not a BlackBerry or even a mobile specific website, but it fills a gap that I had. Have you ever tried to reach a website and it looked like it was down but you could not confirm it? Turns out that DownForEveryoneOrJustMe is meant to answer that question.

You just punch in a URL and it will tell you if the website is down for just you or for everybody. Nothing more and nothing less…

Check it out at www.DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com and let me know what you think.

Review: OtterBox Defender Case 88XX
Rating:
Link: www.OtterBox.com
Cost: $49.95 @ The BerryReview Store

I would like to start off by saying, this is not my favorite case, it is not on my device today for several reasons that I will get into later. However, I would not be without this case, and I think that anyone who spends time in an environment that is not Berry friendly should have one.

The Review Unit

The people at OtterBox were nice enough to send us a few of these to take a look at. You have probably seen a couple reviews in the past few weeks, and rest assured this will not be more of the same. Rather an opinion, how this case suits my life. I had seen a few OtterBox’s before, at some local shops, online and my buddy has one for his iPod Touch, so the concept of what the case stands for was familiar to me.

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We all knew it wouldn’t be long before theme designers started creating themes for the Blackberry BOLD so I guess we’ll be seeing more and more of them as time goes on. John over at GadgetBean.Com has gotten in on the fun by taking his popular Real iBerry Blocks Theme and creating a version for the Blackberry BOLD. This custom L, bottom dock menu and ‘today’ screen theme has sharp and vivid graphics and is downright cool. If I didn’t want to own a BOLD before, I really do now :0)

Real iBerry Bocks Custom Theme is available for $7.00 right here at our Berryreview Store. Enjoy!

S4BB sent out an email over the weekend that they have updated their public beta of TaskReports for BlackBerry. TaskReports essentially helps you create reports on how efficiently you handle the tasks on your BlackBerry. Personally I don’t have a need for such an application but I can see some GTD task aficionados interested in such an application.

New features in TaskReports 1.4.0 Beta 5

• GTD reports (next actions, contexts, projects, and project progress).
• Help screen for general usage.
• HTML reports have been polished.
• Improved start up time and program feedback.
• Improved performance on report generation (saves battery power).
• Bug fixes: no more out of memory errors when you have thousands of tasks in your database.

S4BB has also updated their Wallpaper Megaplex 2.6 lifetime wallpaper service to support additional devices and upcoming device screen sizes. The new version supports the Bold and the upcoming 8220 & Storm.

Its available on sale now for $9.99 direct from MobileSoftwareMarket