Posted on August 6, 2009, at 1:39 pm .
Students everywhere are enjoying their final month of summer before heading back to school. Soon they’ll need to figure out class schedules and buy their text books. It’s important to get off to a fresh start and get some apps for your BlackBerry that keep you organized and informed.
Here are five free apps to help you do just that:
1. Check the weather with WeatherEye when you get up in the morning. Download WeatherEye OTA from your BlackBerry Browser at http://blackberry.theweathernetwork.com
2. With over 100,000 titles in its library, eBook app Wattpad can help you keep up with your extracurricular reading. Download Wattpad OTA from m.wattpad.com
3. Viigo is the ultimate RSS reader. Stay up to date on all your favorite news, blogs and sites on the go. Download Viigo from getviigo.com.
4. If you’re looking for a business or person on campus, check out Poynt. It’s coming soon with OpenTable support so get ready to find some cheap eats fast. Download it OTA from m.mypoynt.com
5. And finally, make sure you have Facebook. It comes preloaded on almost every BlackBerry device but if you don’t have it, download it asap.
Posted on July 31, 2009, at 10:50 am .
There are some applications that want to automatically start when you reboot your device because they’re an integral part of your BlackBerry experience.
Start Me Up allows you to select applications that you want to automatically start up but don’t do it on their own. This is a great way to add additional functionality to apps that you enjoy using.
A cool feature of this product is that it allows you to set delay times. If an app requires a network connection, you can adjust the delay time to allow your device to connect to the network before the device is launched.
Features:
* Automatic start up for apps that don’t include this feature
* Runs applications in background while launching
* Small size and does not run in background constantly
Get Start Me Up for free for your BlackBerry.
Posted on July 15, 2009, at 11:11 pm .
Pandora has launched version 1.1.0 today. In previous versions, you could only get mono AAC via your mobile connection. Now, stereo AAC+ is available just like you find on your wi-fi connection! You can download Pandora for free via your BlackBerry Browser at http://www.pandora.com. Check out all the new features and bug fixes after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Pandora 1.1.0 Released with Stereo AAC+’
Posted on July 9, 2009, at 10:42 am .
Some carriers are really harsh when it comes to voice plans and will bill you an extra minute for going even a second over 60. With Fabian’s latest free app, you get a short vibration after every 55 seconds into each outgoing call so that you know when a new minute will start.
By using this app, you’ll know that you aren’t being charged for extra minutes. It’s an easy way to save on your voice plan.
Download MinuteSaver for free for your BlackBerry.
See more great applications from Fabian from his site.
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 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 17, 2009, at 12:21 pm .
MerchantWare Mobile is mobile payment application, perfect for contractors, trade-show vendors and delivery drivers. MerchantWARE Mobile runs on BlackBerry’s Pearl, Storm, Curve or Bold and offers the enhanced capability to use a highly secure Bluetooth card swipe device that brings ease of use, lower processing costs and security to “on the go” businesses.
Whether credit card information is swiped or keyed-in to the BlackBerry device, all data is stored on Merchant Warehouse’s secure servers, not the mobile device, providing peace of mind to customers, merchants and salespeople.
Features of MerchantWARE Mobile for the BlackBerry include:
• Secure transactions in real time, including sales, refunds and voids;
• Lower Interchange costs by swiping with Bluetooth card reader;
• Free application;
• Robust detailed transaction reporting;
• No additional gateway or cellular access fees;
• Email receipts for merchant and customer;
• Encrypted and secure SSL connections for safely transmitting customer information;
• Complies with PCI DSS/PABP;
• Automatic end of day batch processing;
• Access to the MerchantWARE Virtual Terminal enabling users to process transactions through the same merchant account from any web connected computer.
This application will be available next week. For more information, see the MerchantWARE site.
Posted on May 23, 2009, at 8:16 am .
5o9 is getting ready to launch their free software that integrates location, device and user information directly into the browser so it can be shared with any web site.
The app also integrates 6 search engines into the browser. The first one, is the 5o9 search engine which is powered by True Local out of Canada. The company has built in a geocoding engine so you can send it GPS and it converts it to zip code (US only) and then returns the search request. You can also use the major search engines such as Google and Yahoo.
Click here for more screenshots of this new free application from 5o9
Posted on May 13, 2009, at 7:33 am .
It’s 7:40am and my BlackBerry wakes me up to, The Killers – ‘Mr Brightside,’ thanks to the BBSmart Alarms Pro application. I fiddle around to unplug my Storm from the charger, swipe it unlocked using StormSlider and open up Viigo via QuickLaunch. With one eye open and the other one closed, I tap on ‘News & RSS’; After another 15-second sleep the channels are all updated and I read the newest headlines from BlackBerryCool, BerryReview, CrackBerry and CNN World. I find an interesting article and send it to Twitter via Viigo. While flipping through emails on the BlackBerry, I see one that has to get forwarded to another recipient – using Forward with Edit. Now I can still edit the forwarded message and send the corrected version.
Still half sleeping, I open up TwitterBerry to read the latest replies and update my status to: “Still in bed, let’s start this day slowly!” Now, it’s time to get up. I hit the shower, place the BlackBerry somewhere next to me and launch BerryTunes. I love listening to music while showering.
Now I’m ready to go! BerryWeather gets launched to see how the weather is going to be today. It’s going to rain so I grab a coat. I can’t decide what color of coat to wear so I open up Coin Toss and let the application make the choice. While leaving I look at the paintings hanging on the wall and realize that something is not right. I whip out my BlackBerry Storm again, launch Storm Level Pro and hold it against the picture-frame. The app tells me the pictures hangs ‘-2’ to the left, so I quickly shift it in position and rush out.
Click through to keep reading about a day in the life of a BlackBerry Storm power user
Posted on April 21, 2009, at 8:56 am .
HRS.com, a European online hotel reservation portal, have announced the launch of a free application for BlackBerry that makes the hotel booking process easier than ever before. Business travellers will be able to search for and book rooms at over 230,000 hotels worldwide using the HRS.com application on their BlackBerry. The HRS.com application is now available for download on BlackBerry App World.
The HRS.com application provides business travellers with a simple way to find and book a suitable hotel whilst travelling, without the need to enter large amounts of information. Thanks to the GPS capabilities of BlackBerry smartphones (many models have GPS built-in), accommodations can be booked based on a user’s current location or the application’s Organizer function. When searching and booking hotels via the Organizer, users can also choose whether to use the address of one of the contacts in their address book or the venue of an appointment noted in their calendar. The booking confirmation can then be sent by either e-mail or SMS.
Alternatively, business travellers can use the GPS function to pull up a list of available accommodations on arrival at any new destination worldwide. Once the booking has been made, traveller’s can transfer the hotel information directly into their calendar or address book or display it on a Google map.
Check it out in App World and let me know what you think.
