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LinkedIn For BlackBerry Delayed to 2010

In yesterday’s late Christmas present of LinkedIn 3.0 for the iPhone LinkedIn dropped the following lump of coal for BlackBerry users in the next to last paragraph of the announcement on their blog.
This application represents just the beginning of our mobile efforts in 2010. We’re just putting the finishing touches on our first [...]

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Review: Gmail For BlackBerry

Gmail is hands down the most useful 3rd party BlackBerry application that I use.  Others may have a better user experience, there may be ones that look better, some are certainly more fun or cool.  But Gmail is by far the application that I use the most and has the set of features that I [...]

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The Joy of BlackBerry App Updates

In reviewing the applications on my BlackBerry I’ve tried to be careful about always reviewing the most recent version of the application that I can run on my 8310.  I want to write about the latest and greatest features and, more importantly, I don’t want to look like an idiot and criticize something that has [...]

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Review: Facebook Application For BlackBerry

With Facebook being the dominant social network and mobile social media usage increasing exponentially a BlackBerry application is crucial to provide access to the network and support updating.  Facebook has had a rudimentary application for awhile, but version 1.7 that was rolled out this summer evolved the app from providing the most basic access to [...]

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Review: Google Sync for BlackBerry

Google Sync is not so much an application for the BlackBerry as it is a utility.  It’s sole purpose is to synchronize you BlackBerry calendar and contacts with your Google Calendar and Gmail Contacts and it does that pretty well.
The application home screen keeps you informed about the status of your sunchonization and the data [...]

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Review: Google Voice For BlackBerry

Google Voice is Google’s VOIP telephone product that provides call forwarding capabilities, unique phone answering messages, transcribed voicemail and a host of other functionality.  The Google Voice application for the Blackberry allows you to use your Google Voice number on your BlackBerry, while also extending many of these features to your native BlackBerry phone number.   [...]

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Still Waiting For Promised Social Media BlackBerry Applications In 2009

The calendar is getting thin for 2009 and the handful of applications that were promised in 2009 and I’ve been waiting for still have not seen the light of day.
Twitter
Back in September CrackBerry leaked news about RIM working on their own Twitter client (project banshee).  As a native app we could expect Address Book integration [...]

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Review: Yelp for BlackBerry

Yelp is the popular review social network that operates in US metropolitan areas, Ireland, the UK and other countries in Europe.  Their application for the BlackBerry was launched over the summer and an update was released in the last few weeks.  It brings the encyclopedic listing of locations and crowd sourced reviews into the palm [...]

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Review: Flickr Application for BlackBerry

I use the Flickr BlackBerry application just about every day to support my Boston Moment project. It’s a really useful tool for uploading photos from your BlackBerry to your Flickr photostream and is critical for anyone with a Flickr account who occasionally adds pictures taken from their BlackBerry.
Uploading images with the application is very easy.  [...]

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My Boston Moment Project

About a month ago I started taking photographs of the Boston skyline as I crossed the Longfellow Bridge on my way to the office each morning. I thought that it would be interesting to see how the image changes from day to day; not just the occasional rainy daysm changing colors of the leaves, [...]

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