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Ditto Turns your BlackBerry into an SMS chat room by allowing you to text multiple people. The app also gives you control of identities and chat permissions of the participants. If you and your friends text message a lot, this app could be fun.
Ditto is available for purchase on App World and they are also offering BlackBerryCool readers 100 free copies.
To get your free copy, head over to hivemindtech.com/main/tryditto and use the coupon code bbcool777.
The guys at emacberry update so often it’s hard to keep up, and recently they’ve updated FileScout to version 1.7.5. The latest version includes improvements for the TextEditor and some bug fixes. FileScout is a great file manager, and it’s one of those apps that makes you wonder why it isn’t native on the BlackBerry.
New to 1.7.5:
More information about FileScout in the BlackBerryCool Store.
A full changelog is available from emacberry.
Tungle are offering 100 BlackBerryCool readers an advanced beta copy of Tungle for BlackBerry. This is a great app for anyone who needs to schedule meetings on the go, and the beta client is a steady build. I’ve reviewed and used a decent number of beta BlackBerry apps, and this one doesn’t have any battery drain or memory leaks, that sometimes come with a beta.
To get your advanced beta copy, head over to the Tungle Beta landing page.
AstraSync has gone version 4.1 Beta 1 (4.1.6) and now supports AutoDiscover, email draft auto-save, sync pausing and contains multiple performance improvements and bug fixes.
AstraSync is a BlackBerry synchronization app that does a two-way OTA sync of email, calendar and contact data with Exchange ActiveSync compatible servers including Microsoft Exchange, MailSite Fusion, Exchange Online, BPOS, CommuniGate Pro, Zimbra, Scalix, FirstClass, Open-Xchange, Kerio MailServer, SmarterMail, Axigen, Google Sync and Gmail.
Major enhancements to AstraSync include:
AstraSync supports almost all BlackBerry devices except 7000, 8100 and 8700 devices. To download this version, visit the AstraSync beta portal with your BlackBerry browser at astrasync.com/beta.
Stitcher is a free media/podcast player that has progressively become available for more devices. The group let us know that they now support the Tour 9630 with OS 5.0. The latest version is only available from Stitcher.com and OTA from stitcher.com/dl. It’s coming to App World soon so you can also wait until then.
Check out Stitcher in App World.
Download the Official OS 5 for the Tour 9630.
The BlackBerry Dev Blog have announced that they have new Java and Web development tools and SDKs for BlackBerry. BlackBerry Dev Blog Mike breaks down the major highlights of the update which include:
1) Hot Swap Simulator – Using the new simulators provided in the BlackBerry Java SDK v5.0, you no longer need to reset your simulator every time you update your application, which helps makes it faster and easier to write your applications.
2) Widget and Web Development Tools Together – With the new Web Development tools RIM are bringing together the BlackBerry Widget and BlackBerry Web development tools into one plug-in so that developers can easily get started using one set of common tools. This should make it easier for web developers to experiment with BlackBerry Widgets and to discover the power and capabilities of that development model.
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