It’s been a while since I’ve lamented the plight of the Mac BlackBerry user. That’s probably because it’s become a bit easier on us lately. Desktop Manager for Mac still isn’t nearly as functional as its Windows counterpart, but they’ve updated it multiple times since the initial release, and it seems to be a lot more stable now. Yet there’s one thing that Mac users haven’t been able to do with ease, and that’s wirelessly sync data from their BlackBerrys to their Macs. That made my excitement at reading BerryReview today that much greater. They went over an app called Syncmatic that, yes, wirelessly syncs your BlackBerry and Mac data. It’s just what we’ve been looking for.
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As you get older, back to school time changes. When you’re real young it’s exciting because you get to see all those people you missed all summer. As you move on through the years it starts to become a hassle, because you start to hate school that much more. But by the time you’re in college it’s a joy again, because, well, college rocks. But whether you’re headed back to high school or college, your BlackBerry can help you succeed. It won’t replace study and hard work — your dad was right about something — but it can certainly make that study and hard work a bit less tedious.
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Just this morning we explored some streaming music apps for your BlackBerry, which caught a bit more buzz on Twitter than it did in the comments. What stuck out to me while writing it was that no where on this site do we have a review or walkthrough of Slacker Radio. The app has been around for a while now, and I feel like I’m biased against it because of my Pandora favoritism. So, to remedy that, we’ll take some time this afternoon to take a stroll through a different brand of streaming radio.
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Sometimes I feel like my BlackBerry is nothing more than a gussied up MP3 player. Unless I’m listening to an audiobook I rarely take my iPod with me anymore, leaving that music playing function to my main cellular device. And why not? I can fit 4GB of music on my SD card, which is plenty for a few trips here and there. Plus, as long as I’m in cellular range I can play from one of my dozen or so Pandora channels. Even after that there are plenty more free options. Here are some streaming music services you can use on your BlackBerry.
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One thing I noticed immediately after trying the Torch was the lack of compatible applications. It made sense, of course; OS 6 was on just one device, and at the time of testing it hadn’t even been released. But that didn’t make it any less frustrating. Whether it was Pandora not being available or Slacker not running, I was missing out on tons of apps. We’ve seen a few popular apps upgrade to include OS 6 compatibility lately, so now might be the time to check again. As you can see in the above banner, the BBGeeks Store has you covered.
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There is probably more running on your BlackBerry than you know. You can get a quick glance at running services by holding down the menu button and bringing up the app switcher, but as in Windows, there are other processes running in the background. If you want your BlackBerry running at peak capacity you probably want to know exactly what’s running on it, and how those processes started running in the first place. There are certainly a few apps that help you monitor this usage, but I don’t think any match What’s Running in My Phone? in terms of quality and price.
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The story of this application, Start Me Up, comes from my research of another application. I’m in Las Vegas this week doing work for one of our sister sites, so I haven’t had much time to put together tips posts. Instead, as you’ve seen, we’ve mainly covered app-related stuff. But for Friday I thought I’d can the sales pitch and present a free application. That’s when I found an excellent one, iCaller Location. Well, it was excellent in theory. It’s basically a reverse caller ID. When someone calls it lets you know what the location of the area code and exchange in question. While that’s nice, it would be much nicer if it could locate the origin of the call, since plenty of calls originate outside of their local area. But it’s a free app, so who cares? Plenty of people care, apparently, judging by the user comments. While a few contain nothing but needless complaining about a free app, there was one in particular that struck me.
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Expansion and consolidation. It’s the cycle of history. New technology breeds new services by the dozen. Then, when those services become too numerous to handle we see consolidation. In the past that meant some businesses would not see tomorrow. But now, with mobile technology creating new markets, we’re seeing third parties supply the consolidation. On the BlackBerry we’ve seen this with apps like IM+. That one consolidates all of your IM accounts. Recently I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about Trillian, which takes consolidation one step further by combining not only instant messaging services, but also social networking.
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We present a ton of apps here on BBGeeks, with the hope that a number of readers will find them useful. Clearly not every app is for everyone — otherwise we’d run out of memory pretty quickly. But for the most part we try to cover apps that would help at least some subsection of our readers. From time to time, too, these apps go on sale. We might have looked at an app months ago, and you might have thought it cost more than you were willing to pay at the time. But then, without warning, the app comes up at a discount. Today we’ll look at some of the apps we’ve covered that are now selling at discounted prices.
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One thing I find curiously amusing about BlackBerry App World is that it is available for download from BlackBerry App World. In fact, it is Item No. 1 — http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/1 in the web store. Not long ago RIM held a get together to announce the coming of App World 2.0, and shortly thereafter made it available in the Beta Zone. Now it’s out of that beta stage and ready for an official release. You can get the new version at the above link or at blackberry.com/appworld.
