Category: Random Thoughts
Software Alert: SMobile Security Shield Parental Control Gives More Power To Parental Control
Parents, with all the media coverage of sexting, and the worries of your children and teens on MySpace and who they are texting on their cell phone, you won’t need to worry much longer. SMobileSystems has heard your pleas and has created the answer to those hopes with a new software designed for your peace of mind. [...]
RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie Wants To Buy A Hockey Team And Move Them Too!
Here’s something to howl about if you’re a hockey fan. RIM Co-CEO wants to buy the Phoenix Coyotes. Before I go into details, let’s see how the offer came about. The ownership group of the Phoenix Coyotes had filed for bankruptcy protection May 5, 2009. The filing as noted by a news release also included [...]
Software Upgrade Alert: ÜberTwitter Beta 2 Has Been Released With New Features And More!
ÜberTwitter released their next Beta, 2. With all the Twitter clients out there, including TwitterBerry, SocialScope, and TweetGenius, ÜberTwitter has been working hard to improve and work on their client as well. Some of the new features and fixes include several new and great things to look forward to including: two notification profiles, internal GPS [...]
WES2009 Moments And Highlights From Tuesday On Twitter
WES2009 has now been going on for two days. I’ve been watching my Twitter, reading it and enjoying the pictures and updates. While it was somewhat quiet today, there were a few tweets from our fellow Tweets. So here’s what you have missed this Tuesday if you’re not following Al Sacco, Bla1ze, CrackBerry Adam, CrackBerry [...]
WES2009 Moments and Highlights From Monday On Twitter
Many of us weren’t able to attend WES2009, but there those who are there who are generous enough to go and share the adventure and information with us as they explore the event. These great BlackBerry Gurus have brought the WES2009 to us through video and Twitter. In case you have missed Monday, I’m going [...]
Update Alert: Facebook Steps Up Again
It seems like just yesterday we brought you news of Facebook’s new update, v1.5.0.31. The Previous update did so much. It integrated with the phone, allowing your contacts from your Blackberry Contacts to by synced with those in Facebook. If your contact did not have a picture, they are given their Facebook picture. It not [...]
Hi, My Name Is….Why and How to Create a VCard
One of the questions I get is how to create a virtual business card, also known as a VCard. The politically correct definition of a Vcard is an electronic business card. It is a very important and powerful means of Personal Data Interchange, or PDI. It will help you with your communications in a way [...]
Happy Earth Day! Recycling Your Phone!
Happy Earth Day to all our readers. So to commemorate the day, I would like to go over how to recycle your phone. So you’ve either decided to get your first BlackBerry or you have a BlackBerry and would like a newer model, this is how you do it. You can either donate your BlackBerry, [...]
Why Travelers Should Be Traveling The World By Storm!
According to the Vodafone Blog, they gave forty nine reasons why the Storm should be the device of choice for world travelers. The main features praised were the GPS and the 3G/High Speed Download Packet Access. I thought I’d share this blog with you and even ask for your opinions. I have the Curve myself, [...]
Preparing For Earth Day: SAVE THE BLACKBERRY!
The Purchase So you purchased your BlackBerry smart phone, and you have taken it home, but what have you purchased to protect your investment? The BlackBerry deserves to be protected in every way possible, so I am going to go through the various ways of protection and what is in your best interest. You wouldn’t [...]
Preparing for Earth Day: SAVE THE BATTERY
It’s the middle of the day, and suddenly the yellow light starts to blink and then the all too familiar sound of the beep notifying you that your BlackBerry is about to go to sleep because of a dying battery, and your realize you need to charge it fast! Earth Day is officially April 22nd, and [...]
Poll: How many Storm Users Have Been Experiencing Problems?
Many BlackBerry Storm users on various forums/websites have complained about their BlackBerry Storm devices either freezing/crashing too often, or problems with the screen. We know that with OS upgrades, a lot of the bugs and freezing issues have been resolved, as well as a couple tips like loosening the screws under the battery cover and [...]
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