Posted on June 22, 2009, at 11:53 AM .
Visible Vote for BlackBerry has been updated and it’s also now available in App World. New features include:
1. Job Approval Ratings for each Legislator that represents you plus the President.
2. Facebook Comment Integration – You can now leave comments on each bill and legislator for your Facebook Friends to read.
3. Bills now have a filter function to better find bills that matter to you.
4. Each Bill now has buttons that will take you to the actual bill and media sources with articles on each bill.
5. Download your Legislators full voting records without having to vote.
Download Visible Vote for your BlackBerry for free.
The old features still remain the same and have been a little cleaned up:
1. Send a Letter to your Legislators through your Blackberry.
2. Vote on the same Bills as your legislators and tell them how to Vote on those bills from the program.
3. After Legislators vote it will cross compare your vote to theirs and give you an agreement percentage.
4. Sends a letter every week with the constituents vote tallies.
Posted on June 22, 2009, at 10:55 AM .
AetherPal 2.1 is a mobile device management solution from w2bi. While mobile device management solutions are common in the BlackBerry space, they all provide at least one unique feature that gives them a competitive advantage in their target market.
AetherPal includes Remote Control, Banner Notification and Mobile Desktop features:
Remote Control is a virtualization tool that enables support staff to remotely view, manage, and control the user’s device for troubleshooting, remote installation, device training, and application demonstrations while retrieving device parameters.
Banner Notification allows instant delivery of customizable messages/notifications to an individual or group of mobile users. The notifications can be simple text announcements, or may contain graphics, logos and hyperlinks. You can use Banner Notifications for critical messages, customer subscribed updates, promotion alerts, emergency or weather related communications.
Mobile Desktop is a customizable desktop with streaming content delivery functionality. It allows customizable UI and real time content update deliveries (RSS) to mobile devices. It also provides the user access to the applications in a tab based framework. The operator can push and organize common files, web sites, games, and help desk information as well as increased number of applications/files visible on the desktop.
For more information, visit the Aetherpal site.
Posted on June 22, 2009, at 10:31 AM .
You’ve spent time building up your Autotext entries to make it really easy to fire off a “thank you” or “you’re welcome.” You’ve invested time in building up your Password Keeper with entries for the Jonas Brothers Fan Club and you’ve got 50+ friends on your BlackBerry Messenger. Life is good, especially because you’re on a BES and your contacts, calendars, tasks and notes are being synced back to the server. Now, a new OS pops up and you want to update. You get IT’s blessing to do this, but then you remember those parts of your BlackBerry that are going to be wiped out. When you plug your phone into your computer, fire up Desktop Manager and try to back up certain parts of your device, you get this:
Nan’s Backup and Restore on BES
Posted on June 22, 2009, at 9:32 AM .
BBRocks posted a few official OS updates that we’re all happy to download. Doesn’t it feel good to download an official OS? You know your BlackBerry won’t explode and instead you get to experience an upgrade sans-hassle.
Download the AT&T OS 4.5.0.158 for the BlackBerry Pearl 8110.
Download the Rogers OS 4.6.0.250 for the BlackBerry Curve 8900.
Download the CSL Limited OS 4.6.0.282 for the Bold 9000.
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Posted on June 22, 2009, at 9:12 AM .
Poynt is a great app that you can use daily. When we took a look at the app at WES 2009, we saw a ton of cool features, many of which have not yet launched but should be unofficially coming this summer (just a guess). Currently, you can search local businesses, people and movie theaters. Soon, you’ll have access to a complete restaurant search and booking service powered by Open Table.
Other features include:
GPS functionality has been optimized to provide faster accurate locates.
Cell-site locates allow Poynt to quickly access a user’s general location while awaiting a GPS lock.
Poynt is fully integrated with both BlackBerry Maps and Google Maps.
Poynt integrates with Gokivo Navigator to provide turn-by-turn voice navigation.
Users can add frequently accessed listings to their BlackBerry Contact List, providing convenience for future lookups.
Poynt is a free app and it’s available by hitting m.mypoynt.com from your BlackBerry browser.
