Blackberry Essential Apps: Part 5

Here is Part 5 of my Blackberry Essential applications. This is a longer list than usual but some of these apps are small utilities and dont require much description. Hope you find the list useful.
AutoStandby – I use my Blackberry alot, as you can imagine. One of the first things I did was buy a [...]

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Howto Screencast: Convert downloaded videos for Blackberry

I have created a 4 minute screencast showing how to convert videos and movies so they will play on the Blackberry Bold, Curve 8900 and the Storm.
I reference Lifehacker and the post Top 10 Free Video Converters. You can find a list of software there. I myself prefer Clone2Go Free version which is demonstrated in [...]

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Essential BlackBerry Applications: Part 4 – The REXwireless Suite

It has been some time since my last post in the series, Essential BlackBerry Bold Applications. I have another post of apps planned soon after this one, there have been a bunch of great releases lately that I am excited to share. This post will be dedicated to a suite of apps from the same [...]

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List of Free and cheap Subversion (SVN) repository hosts

So currently I am hosting 4 SVN repos on the same box as our web server. The server is maintained by me and gets backed up not nearly enough. So before I have a disaster and lose months of work I began looking to at least store my code somewhere safer. In my search to [...]

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Proactive customer service or twitter stalking damage control?

Over the last couple months I have started using Twitter every day. It took me 2 or 3 times trying it before I thought it wasnt completely useless and waste of time. Now that I am subscribed to a few news services that I find interesting like TechCrunch, Engadget, CBC News (but not interesting enough [...]

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The beautiful phrase “Man, I am an idiot…”

How often do you have “Man, I am an idiot” moments? Forgetting to pay a bill on time, saying something stupid and regretting it immediately after, or chopping the tip of your finger off cutting red peppers? Yeah, gross… Well if I did either of those things I dont think I would be too happy [...]

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Things I hate about my Blackberry Bold

I have had my BlackBerry Bold 9000 for nearly two months now. I figure I have spoken enough about how awesome and useful it, and some of the applications I have found are. The device however is not without its faults– there are certain things about it that drive me insane. 

Reboot Time – It takes [...]

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Why, oh why ?!? Windows 7 – 32 bit version.

Beginning January 9th, 2009, Microsoft will be officially providing a beta version of Windows 7 to the first 2.5 million downloaders according to the Windows Team Blog. The download, which will be in .iso format will be available via the official Windows 7 website. Microsoft is offering 32 and 64 bit versions allowing the option [...]

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Merry Christmas

Just a quick post to wish everyone a merry Christmas and that I hope everyone is enjoying themselves this holiday season. I write this from my blackberry using the program Blackberry Meta Blog which allows posting to xmlrpc capable web platforms. Very handy but not the most efficient way ti do it. The reason why [...]

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Essential Blackberry Applications: Part 3

Here comes part 3 of my essential Blackberry apps list. Yes, I am an App whore. Yes, I love my Blackberry. No, I do not want an iPhone (I use copy/paste, lol).

Poynt (Free) – Poynt offers 411 service, movie times and directions. I have only tested the service in Canada which works fantastic. I imagine [...]

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