Posted on November 8, 2007, at 1:58 pm .
This week, we’re looking at bThink from Perceptus, a light program for your BlackBerry designed simply to provide snoozable reminders with direct access to associated contacts’ e-mails and phone. BlackBerrys come preloaded with plenty of personal information management apps, like Tasks, Calendar, and Memopad – that really covers the big bases, and should take care of most people’s needs. That’s why bThink caught our eye; it was trying to bring something new to the PIM table. In a nutshell, bThink lets you create e-mail, call or blank reminders which link up with your Address Book and Tasks.
Let’s see how busy this bee is…
Posted on October 22, 2007, at 7:44 am .
Josep has noticed that a new edition of BlackBerry for Dummies has been released today, to the jubilation of new BB-users worldwide. I’ve got a few Dummies books kicking around, and they’re all written with clarity, humour and expertise. BlackBerry for Dummies covers the whole slew of basic and intermediate functions, such as e-mail, attachments, the Address Book, MemoPad, Calendar and Calculator, as well as PIN-to-PIN messaging, web surfing and call functions. If you’re interested, you can pick up a copy cheap on Amazon.
Posted on October 12, 2007, at 10:50 am .
Josep pointed me to some free beta software in development on BlackBerry Italia dubbed simply Address Book Manager, which lets you export contacts from your BlackBerry as IPD files and edit them on your desktop. This software aims to let BlackBerry-only PIM purists handle desktop contacts without needing Outlook or other software. Regardless, Address Book Manager still lets you get your Outlook on by allowing XML address book exporting, so you can haul it into whichever app you like from there. Once you’re all done, you can import your contacts back onto your BlackBerry with the Desktop Manager. It’s still in beta, but worth taking a look at. (There’s a language pack too, for those of us who can’t read Italian.)
Posted on October 10, 2007, at 8:07 am .
According to a recent survey by FusionOne, over half of respondents said that losing their mobile device would cause their social life to suffer, and would be more painful than a breakup or having a cavity filled. Now, as BlackBerry users, it’s easy to imagine our professional lives taking a kick in the teeth if our BlackBerry was misplaced, but do our social lives revolve around these little gizmos too? The biggest factor in the social importance of mobiles lied in contact management – while 70% of subscribers rated contacts backup as very or extremely important, a whooping 67% admitted to not actually doing it. The BlackBerry 9000 is rumored to have microSD backup included with it, which would go a long way to address the demand shown in this survey. Replacing things like ringtones and pictures also rated fairly high on users’ priorities.
