Posted on May 16, 2010, at 10:40 PM .
A BlackBerry is a personal computer in your pocket and what better use of a computer than to store and track data about things that are important to you, such as family. My Family is a BlackBerry app that allows you to track medical records such as conditions, medications, lab tests, allergies, immunizations, age, height, weight, blood glucose, A1c % and more. This app is very beneficial to anyone with family members that need consistent monitoring or families with newborns.
Features of the My Family app include:
- Record all the monitored data such as weight, height, BMI, blood pressure, blood glucose, A1c, fasting glucose, lab tests, results etc.
- Manage the medications that are you currently taking or any past medications, etc.
- View graphs for the above monitored data.
- All the personal health profile like age, height, weight, BMI, personal history and diagnosed medical conditions for each family member can be maintained and stored.
- Also, track all the medical expenses for each family member.
- Email the records to your doctor or to yourself.
- Organize insurance information from the application.
My Family is a relatively expensive app at $19.99 but it’s $6.99 until June 30th.
Posted on May 16, 2010, at 9:43 PM .
The BlackBerry Bold 9650 looks like it will be a great device for all those who enjoy the size and weight of the Tour. The Bold 9650 aka Tour2 is on sale for $199 with a 2-year contract online and we may see this device in stores shortly. The device specs look on par with the Bold 9700, making it a relatively powerful modern smartphone. Anyone grabbing one?
Head over to the Sprint site for more information about the Bold 9650.
Check out more BlackBerryCool coverage of the Bold 9650.
Posted on May 14, 2010, at 4:25 PM .
Tee Wagers Golf is a BlackBerry scorecard for golf with some cool golf game variations built into the scorecard. On top of being a great scorecard, Tee Wagers also helps you play games such as umbrella, rabbit and skins.
Features of the app include:
- Save your favourite courses.
- Save your favourite foursome.
- Email your results.
- Skins: Track your money and score using the TWG skins match tracking system. Easy to follow prompts, clean set up.
- Rabbit: Rabbit is a cool version of skins, first player to earn a skin grabs the rabbit for special privileges. Once you are the Rabbit, you have the upper edge!
- Umbrella: Umbrella rewards players who can do it all on the course. Are you a long driver, a pin seeker, deadly putter? When this is the game for you!
This is definitely an app worth taking on your next 18. More information available in our store.
Posted on May 14, 2010, at 12:25 PM .
Each week there are a lot of apps submitted to App World and I thought I would give a quick breakdown of what’s available this week. I’m avoiding themes in this roundup because they tend to clutter the app list, and many of them simply aren’t worth downloading. Check after the jump for what’s new in App World.
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Posted on May 14, 2010, at 11:28 AM .
Patent filing doesn’t really mean anything as RIM files patents on a constant basis. The company has an incredibly inflated legal department, and if you’re an employee working on anything relatively unique, you will surely be submitting patents. That being said, RIM has filed a very relevant patent recently: a “multi-tap keyboard user interface” that will provide auditory feedback to BlackBerry users who are visually impaired.
With this auditory feedback system, a user can invoke applications by pressing a specific set of keys. Each key has a specific audio message, allowing a visually impaired user to navigate the device effectively.
We have seen a few software solutions that are geared towards helping the visually impaired use a BlackBerry and they’re very expensive. It would be really interesting if RIM gave the OS this software natively as it would save the visually impaired a great deal of money.
Posted on May 14, 2010, at 11:01 AM .
This was a great week for BlackBerry news. The hot stories this week are the first video of the Bold slider and the clamshell, as well as the new details about the BlackBerry tablet. The BlackBerry tablet is an interesting product/accessory from RIM as it’s not clear what value it brings to BlackBerry users, since we’ve learned it will have no connectivity of its own, but rather act as a smartphone companion. In the end, it seems the BlackPad will only serve as a larger screen for when you want to view media on your BlackBerry, and unless there is really compelling software for it, it probably won’t be a hit.
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