Category: General

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All The Ladies! Viigo Has News For You

By Susan C on Apr 18, 2009 in BlackBerry, General, Random News.
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Viigo has announced that they have now added features for the ladies who would like content for their interests as well. The well known application has added this content into their library. If you use Viigo, you know exactly how great the application is and how useful it is. If you don’t, now is a great time to download Viigo and find out what everyone is talking about. The new addition includes great content from Sugar. Viigo has partnered with Sugar, Inc. so that their network content is available for your BlackBerry through Viigo.  There are sixteen different feeds from Sugar alone that contain everything from Pop Culture to Fashion. And now from the web to your BlackBerry, it’s available for your reading pleasure.

To add the content, open the news and rss folder and add a channel, then Interests and Lifestyles, then For Women. Add whatever channels you would like to read. There’s something there for every woman. And yes, men….Viigo is working on content just for the Men.

[via: Viigo.com ]

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New Twitter Application – UberTwitter Out in Beta

By Susan C on Apr 16, 2009 in BlackBerry, Downloads, General, Reviews, Software.

Übertwitter is available for BlackBerry smart phones. It is available for download in it’s beta form from UberTwitter.com. ÜberTwitter is a company committed to bringing extremely functional twitter clients to mobile devices. Übertwitter is reaching out to the BlackBerry community to test out this new application. It seems very promising with the features that the application is designed with. I downloaded the beta to my Curve 8330, it installed and the icon is a Ü with the twitter bird sitting in it. One thing I did notice after downloading the application was the following post in Twitter, after downloading : @tweet_genius did I win? Lol http://myloc.me/cy . Following the link you are taken to that individual’s location on a map with the prior message who downloaded the application. Apparently a question directed at the other application in beta, Tweet_Genius.

Most appealing of the application is that it integrates Twitter with GMail and the Google Talk program. Some of the notable features and capabilities of this program are the following: has the integrated ability to upload pictures to a site for the users of the application; gives you the ability to update your Google Talk with your last Twitter tweet ; automatically updates your location using your cell phone’s cell towers, and not the GPS hardware; you can send videos integrated with your tweet; and see all your Tweeps, and Tweeps tweeting near you.

So far I have liked what I’ve seen. I know the program is still in beta, and the only two other Twitter applications I have tried are Twitterberry and SocialScope. Twitterberry is Twitter, and SocialScope integrates Twitter with Facebook. I was very impressed so far with the easy to use Übertwitter, and the available options and features it has to offer.

So far in pros for the application, I love the location setting, the media integration ability, and the fact that it is more selective to Google Talk. I think it’s nice to find your local Tweeps as well. I haven’t really found any cons yet, but as the beta continues, I will be sure to post any changes and enhancements the program undergoes on it’s way to it’s full release.

So far for rating, I’m giving it five stars for the look and easy user friendly feature of the application, and five stars for the extra features and functions. Rating: [5/5]

The application is supported on all BlackBerry devices running the os 4.2 and more, yes, this includes the Storm.

[via: Crackberry.com]

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BlackBerry Kickstart/Pearl 8220 on eBay…

By James on Aug 31, 2008 in BlackBerry, General, Pearl Flip 8200 Series.
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First it was a BlackBerry Bold purchased on eBay way before it was even launched and now someone is going to grab a BlackBerry Kickstart Pearl 8220. RIM’s first flip BlackBerry is currently listed on eBay for around $700 USD with just a little over two days to go. If you look at the pictures close enough you will notice its not a english version as the Suretype keyboard reads AZERTY, which is the french version of QWERTY. Anyways surprising enough RIM hasn’t had this auction pulled yet.

Check it out at eBay >>

Thanks Dee for sending this in!

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Imagine Signing into BlackBerry Messenger…

By James on Aug 10, 2008 in BlackBerry, General, Software.

So I know I’m not the first person to think about this but I change my BlackBerry about every 3-6 months. I also have come to get a lot of contacts on my BB Messenger. The biggest pain about changing BlackBerries is that everytime I do a backup/restore or switch device wizard my BB messenger contacts get all messed up.

Wouldn’t it be so much better if RIM designed BlackBerry Messenger to auto-sign into an account when your device is turned on, similar to RIM’s MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, or Google Talk applications. One PIN for life would be amazing!! Anyways its very rare I write little blurps like these on the site but I just think it would be such a great idea.

Anybody else agree?

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MobiTV takes on HowardForums

By James on Mar 06, 2008 in General.

The folks over at HowardForums have got themselves into a little battle with MobiTV and need our support!  A member of the forums posted a private URL which allows virtually anyone with a computer to access MobiTV files. Now because of this information being posted on HowardForums they want to have it removed and shut down. You can read the full details over here and please DIGG IT so everyone knows. HowardForums has been around for many years and has provided tons of valuable information, we can’t let one little company stop them.

Update: Looks like everything has been fixed up between Howard and MobiTV. MobiTV claims they never had intentions to try and shut down HowardForums, they simply just wanted to protect their product.

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Phantom vibrates shows your not crazy

By James on Oct 14, 2007 in BlackBerry, General.

BlackBerry 8700Ever been at work or sitting at a restaurant and swear you feel a vibrate? As if your BlackBerry is receiving a phone call or message? Your not alone. These "vibrates" are called phantom vibrates and may be actually coming from your headbone. I know it sounds weird but you really should read this article posted over at CNN by AP.

Do you experiance these Phantom Vibrates? We want to hear about it on the forums.  

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Washington mayor has 3 BlackBerry devices on his side

By James on Aug 28, 2007 in BlackBerry, General.
Adrian Fenty

How many BlackBerries does one person need? Well Washington, DC mayor Adrian Fenty has three devices on him. Fenty is known to be a BlackBerry addict, recently he was spotted sporting the three devices (a 8800, Curve and 8700). You may wonder why he has so many devices? Well Fenty has one for his mayoral duties, one for personal stuff and one for the city's Police Chief to get in direct contact with him. What a popular guy.

Via CrackBerry 

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American’s are addicted to email

By James on Jul 29, 2007 in BlackBerry, General.

T-Mobile BlackBerry 8800AOL has posted some interesting stats about American's and their emailing habbits. This brings us to the question where do you check your email? Personally I am guilty for checking my email in bed, while driving and definitely while on vacation. Here's the numbers thanks to BG. 

  • 59% of Americans check their email in bed
  • 53% of Americans have checked their email in the bathroom
  • 37% of Americans check their email while they drive
  • 43% check email first thing in the morning
  • 83% check email while on vacation
  • Average users check their email at least 5 times a day

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North America gets upgraded to BlackBerry Internet Service 2.3

By James on Jun 03, 2007 in BlackBerry, BlackBerry OS, Canada, General, RIM, Software, USA.

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It seems that all accounts we’re upgraded to BlackBerry Internet Service 2.3 yesterday. We have confirmed via Telus Mobility that RIM upgraded to BIS 2.3 and now supports new features. New features included:

  • Added support for Gmail and Yahoo! mail accounts – Two-way, synchronization of deletes to and from the Yahoo! Mail® inbox, as well as two-way, virtual real-time, synchronization of message status (read/unread), Virtual real-time delivery of Gmail messages.
  • Auto fowarding – Copies of email messages that are sent to a clients’ TELUS BlackBerry email address (i.e. username@telus.blackberry.net ) can be automatically forwarded to another third-party web mail account (such s Yahoo! Mail or Google Mail).
  • Attachment viewing – View popular attachment formats on the move, including JPEG, BMP, TIFF, RTF, Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint®, Corel WordPerfect and Adobe PDF. PowerPoint presentations and PDFs can be viewed in a convenient slideshow format.

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Palm announcing new device tomorrow…

By James on May 30, 2007 in General, Other Devices, Rumors.

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Palm is reporting that they will be announcing a new mobile device tomorrow (May 30th). Palm will announce the device at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California.

Stay tuned to see what it is…

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