Monthly Archive for May, 2009Page 14 of 31

Personal information manager Pocket Informant update v1.6

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Personal information manager

Pocket Informant is a personal information manager for BlackBerry. The software provides an Agenda, Day, Week, and Month Views alongside Task and Contact views. Journal your appointments, tasks, or contacts to store more detailed notes about each encounter or for time billing purposes. Assign category colors and icons so you can more easily see your appointments, tasks and contacts and see what you’re doing this month.

Recently, the company has launched version 1.6 which makes things faster, better, and more useful. Version 1.6 focuses specifically on performance and desktop sync as well as making some improvements to the Storm user interface. There is also a 7 Day Split Week View.

Here are some of the new features:

  • Performance improvements
  • Full support for Storm (with proper touchscreen support, toolbars, navigation bars etc.)
  • Desktop Outlook sync improvements
  • Unicode support for Desktop Outlook Sync
  • New split-day week view
  • Improved Storm support
  • BlackBerry OS 5.0 support

Pocket Informant 1.6 is a free upgrade or purchase for $19.95.

BlackBerry Storm OS 4.7.0.148 leaked – install at own risk

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The latest BlackBerry Storm OS has been leaked on the internet and is available for download.

Download OS 4.7.0.148 for the BlackBerry Storm.

HUGE WARNING: I really can’t stand behind these leaked OS links because they’re unofficial but go ahead and try it out if you know what you’re doing.

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How to streamline the BlackBerry experience – incredible theme!

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The Blank theme

A theme is a very personal piece of BlackBerry content and “the perfect theme” will be different for many people.

After some talk with Themes4BB about the aesthetics of themes, I’ve taken a great theme of theirs, the Blank theme, and complemented it with some software from our store, to create my favorite theme to date. The theme is a simple blank screen homepage, with a QuickLaunch application for fast, customized access.

A blank homescreen helps to keep my attention focused on the most pressing matters. As emails come in, I have a small notifier telling me to access my messages folder. Since I access my messages folder about 40 times per day, I have the left convenience key set to open it.
Continue reading about this customized theme

Ancient Chinese philosophy and Feng Shui applied to BlackBerry

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Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to use the laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive qi. Qi is a life force that plays an essential role in Feng Shui.

A general Feng Shui principle, involves balancing powers in order to attain a balanced polarity as exemplified by the Yin and Yang symbol.
Click through for more about how Feng Shui applies to your BlackBerry life

New BlackBerry LBS application combines social networking

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Snikkr.com has just announced the private alpha of its first BlackBerry application. Snikkr for BlackBerry combines productivity, location and social networking features. The application is a mashup of Loopt, Latitude, Google Mobile Maps, Glympse, uLocate and Where, among others.

The company says their application helps with “social productivity.” The feature set make your social interactions and group events, from lunch to meetings to travel, more productive easier to manage.

Register for the private beta and use the code “bbcool_0519″. The first 50 to use the code will get a free alpha trial of the app.

Diamond encrusted BlackBerry Bold 9000

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There isn’t much to say here: it’s a BlackBerry Bold and it’s covered in diamonds.

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