The blinking LED on our Berrys is great—letting us know when we have a new email / SMS / missed call / whatever. But the actual notification itself stops there. This is where Message Peek comes in. Rather than just getting a blinking LED, when you receive an Email or SMS, Message Peek pops up with a (beautiful) notification. Here, in big, readable font, you get the ‘From’ and “subject’ of the email, in addition to the entirety of the email below. You can then choose from the options at the tope to Close, Reply, Reply All, Forward, Mark as Read or Go to your Inbox. It’s as simple as that, but much like BerryBuzz, it’s a program that you won’t realize how much you need until you’ve had it for a few days.
We’ve done a lot of reporting about the Bell OS 4.7.0.122 for the BlackBerry Storm. It started with a few leaks as well as the ability to download it unofficially from Bell before they announced the news. You can now download the OS officially from Bell so don’t worry about exploding your device with a bad download.
Although this is official, it is only from Bell. Don’t expect AT&T to help you with customer service. As always, backup your device and take all necessary precautions before proceeding.
The more theme developers the better! If you’re a theme developer or you’re looking to start, you’ll need the latest Plazmic 4.7 CDK Patch which is now available. The patch addresses some of the issues developers had with the previous version of Plazmic.
Cellcrypt provides end-to-end solutions for encrypted voice calling between smartphones that prevent private conversations from being compromised. This enables individuals within corporations and governments to converse in a highly secure manner without the need for specialised devices. In addition to mobile-to-mobile calling, Cellcrypt also supports secure mobile-to-landline calling.
Unlike traditional solutions that are based on older Circuit Switched Data technology, Cellcrypt uses the latest internet technology to provide unmatched voice call quality, international calling capability, high reliability across wireless networks and real-time encryption to levels specified by the US government. Cellcrypt technology is currently undergoing certification to the FIPS 140-2 standard approved by the US National Institute of Standard (NIST).
As Cellcrypt solutions operate on commonly available smartphones with an easy-to-use interface, rather than specialised equipment, Cellcrypt customers benefit from the latest features provided by leading mobile phone manufacturers on devices that they already own.
Currently, the product is only available for Nokia devices but BlackBerry support will arrive end of June.
Are you in sales? This app might be just right for you. Over the past year, Tungle hasn’t gotten much media exposure but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been busy. The company has closed a $5 million round of funding, and also signed a key partnership with IBM to support Lotus Notes.
Tungle allows you to schedule meetings much more effectively. It does this by working with your calendar system to provide you with calendar functionality that you previously did not have. With Tungle, you are able to:
Prevent double-bookings with a system that automatically updates pending invitations.
Select unlimited time slots to propose in meeting invitations.
Share across environments (across calendars and companies).
Allow others to view your availability and schedule with you without having to sign up.
Yatca has been getting some great feedback from those who have tried out the Beta. The client is available for BlackBerry devices running OS 4.6+ or later. Yatca separates itself from the competition by delivering updates and replies directly to the BlackBerry’s inbox so you can Tweet and reply in much the same way that you work with email and SMS.
Here are the bug fixes and updates that come with the new version:
Some people reported that tweets were disappearing from the message list, or that they were being notified of new tweets that they couldn’t see. It turns out that Yatca was being a bit over-zealous with its housekeeping in certain circumstances! Problem now fixed.
Image upload was running into a 50 KB size limit and anything larger than that was timing out on upload (another popular Twitter client for BlackBerry has the exact same problem!). This new version of Yatca tries progressively higher compression rates until the image is less than 50 KB.
When a BlackBerry is connected to a computer and in mass storage mode, third party apps such as Yatca cannot access files in the device memory or SD card. This was causing Yatca to display a cryptic error message when opening the image gallery. A more meaningful message is now displayed.
Twitter has an unconventional way of handling the ‘< ’ and ‘>’ characters that Yatca was not taking account of. This is now fixed (and thanks William for pointing it out!).
