SMobile Security Shield Parental Control Edition is designed to protect your children and young adults from the likes of:
* Misconduct
* Exploitation
* Unwanted Communications
* Sexting
* Loss and Theft
* Malware
* Online Predators
With the Parental Control Dashboard, parents are imbued with the power of Big Brother, and can easily and effectively gain insight into their children’s mobile activities, as well as offering protection from the effects of device loss or theft. Security Shield software communicates with the dashboard server, and also provides an additional level of protection:
* Antivirus and anti-malware scanning, for automatic up-to-the- minute protection from the latest mobile threats
* Anti-spam features for filtering of calls and Text Message messages, via sender number
Wizi SMS with Location is an application that allows to share a location by SMS.
With SMS with Location, sharing a location is done by way of sending an SMS message with a tiny URL and can include automatically the full address and GPS coordinates. The sent map can be viewed on any cell phone or desktop/laptop.
SMS with Location is currently only available for BlackBerry devices with software 4.5 and above.
Features of SMS with Location include:
- Adds a new option to Contacts
- Finds your location on a map using GPS and Cell ID*
- Switch between BlackBerry Maps, Google Maps (or other)
- Switch between map view and satellite view (when available)
- Option Zoom City and Zoom Street for a faster zooming
- Search locations by address
- Automatic insertion of full address in text message
- Automatic insertion of GPS coordinates in text message
- Automatic detection of updates
Beyond160 allows users on CDMA networks to go beyond the 160 character limit when composing a text message. It’s been a very sought-after feature.
BlackBerry users on carrier networks such as Verizon, Sprint, Alltel, Telus, and Bell are only able to type 160 characters when composing a text message. With Beyond160, users can type as much as they want, and when they send, it will automatically split the message into multiple parts (each 160 characters) and send them in sequence. And best of all, Beyond160 messages get routed through the normal SMS Outbox with Delivery Confirmation just like the built-in app. It also works in harmony with my QuickText app if both are installed.
Rogers and Fido have announced that customers can now send and receive updates from Twitter by SMS text message, via short code 21212. The feature comes at no additional cost for customers on text messaging plans.
The service hasn’t gone live just yet, but when it does, customers who subscribe to a text messaging plan will be able to update their Twitter status and receive updates via SMS. Twitter texts are treated as standard messages under all text messaging plans.
Kudos to the Rogers/Fido group for making a deal with Twitter. Now if only carriers would preload devices with App World.
The blinking LED on our Berrys is great—letting us know when we have a new email / SMS / missed call / whatever. But the actual notification itself stops there. This is where Message Peek comes in. Rather than just getting a blinking LED, when you receive an Email or SMS, Message Peek pops up with a (beautiful) notification. Here, in big, readable font, you get the ‘From’ and “subject’ of the email, in addition to the entirety of the email below. You can then choose from the options at the tope to Close, Reply, Reply All, Forward, Mark as Read or Go to your Inbox. It’s as simple as that, but much like BerryBuzz, it’s a program that you won’t realize how much you need until you’ve had it for a few days.
Get a lot of emails? Tired of not knowing who messages are from without opening the messages folder? Well Aerize can help. Aerize alerts is an application that will notify you via a pop-up notification on your screen. The thing I love about this application is that it displays a photo of the sender if their picture is stored in your contacts. I’ve been using the application for about 4 days and it’s a must have!
We love our BlackBerrys. We love them because they are our communicators—they connect us to the world through phone, email, SMS, IM, Facebook, and just about any other way that technology lets us get in touch with one another. But one of the great flaws of the BlackBerry OS is the way it notifies us of incoming messages. The blinking red-LED is great, but it doesn’t tell us anything about the nature of the communication. Did I get an email? An SMS? A missed call?
That’s where BerryBuzz comes in. Compatible with just about every BlackBerry you could throw at it, BerryBuzz lets you customize that LED. Want a turquoise LED for new Email, and a yellow one for missed calls? You got it. With BerryBuzz, you can tell what type of communication your BlackBerry is telling you about—just from a glance at the LED.
Threaded SMS is a great way to keep track of your text conversations. It’s one thing the iPhone did well that BlackBerry still needs native on device. 3jam SuperText is an app for BlackBerry that gives you threaded SMS.
The app is normally $19.99 but for a limited time (only this week) the app will be 50% off with a BlackBerry Cool promotional code.
Because there is no way to enter the promotional code in a form, you’ll have to be signed in to 3jam and then click the discount URL. After you’ve created an account and clicked our promotional link, the discount will then appear (the final price will be be $9.99).
Cortado has recently released SMS2Desk, a free app that will take your SMS messages and get them to you in email form. The service goes both ways too, allowing you to send from email to SMS. This is especially handy for all your friends who insist the RAZR is a perfectly good phone and don’t know what the fuss is over this new thing called the “BlueBerry.”
Dr. Phil isn’t a real doctor by the way. He just gets paid millions of dollars to tell people to get their lives together. The above video shows a girl who averages 5,000 texts per month but her record has been totally destroyed. A 13-year old girl in California sent 484 text messages every day in December – an average of one message every 2 minutes during the waking hours. Her total at the end of the month was 14,528 text messages
“First, I laughed. I thought, ‘That’s insane, that’s impossible,’” said Hardesty, her father and a reporter for The Orange County Register. “And I immediately whipped out the calculator to see if it was humanly possible.”
