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.
Posted on June 22, 2009, at 8:47 am .
Trainlogic.net is a site for train, light rail and subway schedules throughout the US. They have recently released an app for their services which lets you plan rail trips with up to two connections. The app also works in offline mode.
The app will also combine rail networks such as NJT, PATH, LIRR and Amtrak, if you want. It shows maps of your trip, any stop, and lets find out if the train you’re on is making it on time. The app advises you on peak trains, suboptimal trains, etc.
See Trainlogic for covered schedules.
TrainSchedule GPS BlackBerry edition is available for the special price of $6.75 until Jun 26.
Posted on June 22, 2009, at 8:27 am .
This theme looks fairly nice in that the icons are all 3D and the theme generally looks pretty clean. I also appreciate the circular battery and signal meter icons.
In order to create the 3D icons, the developer had each modeled and rendered in its own scene to give a true 3D feel to the theme. Some of the modern rendering techniques used feature caustics, global illumination and HDRI lighting.
The Calx Real Icon theme is available for the BlackBerry Bold, Curve 8900 and Storm for $7.
Posted on June 22, 2009, at 8:10 am .
Older version screenshot.
The creators of BBFIleScout have had a ton of user feedback since the release of their free file manager for BlackBerry. They have now released version 1.0 of BBFileScout and there are quite a few major improvements.
Latest updates:
- Options reorganized - on BlackBerry devices it’s quite common to separate the application options into various screens - this makes the options way more organized and easier to understand.
- Path entry fields (Startup Path, Thumbnail Storage & Playlist Directory) show now an additional button that allows you to browse in the file system to make an appropriate selection (in the past this was only possible via the menu).
Some of the core features that have been maintained are:
- BBFileScout is a file system browser for your BlackBerry (including hidden files)
- Create directories, copy, move, rename, or delete files
- Zip files or complete directory structures
- Extract Zip archives (incl. structures)
- Copy and delete complete directory structures
- Open all media files (supported by your BlackBerry)
- Register additional file types with other (3rd party) applications (if supported)
Download BBFileScout for BlackBerry devices with OS 4.3+
Posted on June 22, 2009, at 7:59 am .
Recently, Fabian was on Twitter asking about what new BlackBerry application to make. I’m not sure if this is the product of that vote but if it was, it’s an incredibly fast turn around. His latest app is called LaterDude and the app allows you to set reminders to call someone back.
From your Call Log or from your Messages application (on some devices, both work, on others only one works) you select an entry, press Menu then ‘Remind me later!’ and now a selection pops up when you want to get notified again about calling back.
It creates a calendar entry at the selected time and date. Make sure that you set the following in the Calendar-Options:
1. Open up the Calendar
2. Click Menu then Options
3. General Options
4. Default Reminder
5. Set it to 0 min.
Download LaterDude for free for your BlackBerry.
Follow Fabian at Twitter.com/FabianMH for updates and to chat about BlackBerry dev.
Posted on June 19, 2009, at 2:13 pm .
Kuwait now has access to the full range of BlackBerry services. VIVA, Alcatel-Lucent and RIM have announced the launch of devices such as the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Bold as well as service with BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service.
Based on its distribution agreement with RIM, Alcatel-Lucent is leveraging its strong local presence in the region to provide VIVA with end-to-end support services for the BlackBerry solution. With Alcatel-Lucent managing integration and deployment, VIVA can focus on delivering customer facing services, enabling the operator to quickly meet market demand.
This trend is indicative of the Middle Eastern strategy with carriers and RIM. While the Middle East provides ample opportunity for low end devices and prepaid solutions, the majority of Middle Eastern countries are getting the “luxury line” of BlackBerry devices such as the 8900 and Bold. I’m curious to see if carriers begin selling Pearl devices in these regions.
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