The guys at S4BB are releasing one app after another. This time, it is a quite small one, but it can be very useful to system administrators and anyone who might need a quick to create secure unique passwords.

S4BB Limited is proud to announce the final release of our RandomPasswordGenerator.

RandomPasswordGenerator helps you protect your confidental data by creating secure passwords. It is highly customizable and creates always unique passwords for securing your data!

A license of the RandomPasswordGenerator can be purchased at all major sales channels:

• MobileSoftMarket: RandomPasswordGenerator
• Handango: RandomPasswordGenerator
• MobiHand: RandomPasswordGenerator
• Smartphone.net: RandomPasswordGenerator

Designed for BlackBerry® Wireless Handheld     

RandomPasswordGenerator

Description

Short and too easy passwords for confidential data or applications are a real security risk as those passwords make it easy to attackers to crack your password and get access to your confidential data. RandomPasswordGenerator helps you protect your confidental data by creating secure passwords. Just to copy and paste it to the place where
this password is needed.

How to generate a password
» Open the application and enter the amount of characters to set the length of your password (if you don’t like the default value).

» Click the “GENERATE” button or the “Generate Password” item at the menu.

» Select “Copy” at the menu and paste the password into a different application on your BlackBerry^®.

Screenshots

Your mobile software experts at S4BB Limited

More interesting BlackBerry software can be found in our BlackBerryInsight Software Store!

I recently upgraded my old BlackBerry Pearl to a new BlackBerry Curve 8320. The problem you are always encountering is: how do I transfer my data from my old BlackBerry to my new one? Well, you could technically just do create a backup and then restore it on your new device.

However, as the new BlackBerry Desktop Manager that came along with the Curve, has is a new option called “Switch Device Wizard”. So I thought it might be an good idea to use it. I mean, that thing seems to be built exactly for the above mentioned reason. I guess, it internally does exactly the same like the “backup & restore” procedure you could do “manually” as well.

The “Switch Device Wizard” is easy to find. Please make sure, your old device is connected to the computer and the BlackBerry Device Manager recognized it already.

After you have started the wizard, you can now select whether to switch from an old to a new BlackBerry device (what I did) or from another mobile device (e.g. iPAQ, Palm, etc.) to a BlackBerry.

Now you can select all data that should be transferred. Of course, this screen looks different if you are switching from a Palm for example (applications cannot be transferred due to the fact that Palm is running Palm OS or Windows Mobile on their devices; and BlackBerry is running BlackBerry OS which are kind of incompatible for applications). Anyway, I selected everything, because it is good to get all my old stuff (contacts, tasks, calendar events, applications, emails, sms, pin messages, photos, etc.) to my new BlackBerry. It seems it is not possible to copy MP3 and video files with this wizard.

After confirming this you might need to wait a while. Depending on the amount of data you have on your device, this might take quite a long time. Please ensure you do not disconnect your BlackBerry from your computer or switch the computer off. You will have to restart the process if you perform one of those actions

After some time, all data has been copied from your old BlackBerry to your desktop computer.

Now it is save to disconnect your old BlackBerry from your computer and connect the new one. By the way: the most reliable and fast connection would be USB in this case.

You can now also select to automatically activate/register your BlackBerry at your BES server or not. If you are not on a BES (e.g. you are on BIS) the second option would be the better choice.

It looks like system recognized all application I have had installed on my old device before. That’s nice.

Reloading the data onto the new device might take a while as well. Patience is needed here.

It looks like this went pretty well. No errors, no nothing, just easy going!

But stop! It wasn’t that easy as it looked. I began using my BlackBerry and encountered that my BIS setup was gone. I mean the new setup on my new device (which came with a new contract, new telefone number, new PIN, new email address, etc.). I used the new BlackBerry Curve before I decided to transfer the data from my old. So the problem was, that the device switch procedure deleted some stuff on my new Curve that was working already. I have listed it below:

• BIS email settings
• BIS email service book entries
• All SMS
• All EMails

This was not good! It should not happen! I discovered it when I tried to write an email as the following message poped up:

“No message services configured. You will only be able to Save Draft.”

I was a bit confused as it was working one day before. After google-ing a bit, I figured out that my service book entries were gone – as well as all the stuff mentioned above. However, the service book entries could be restored. I looged in to the web access of the BIS where my new BlackBerry is registered.

There found this small but helpful button called “Send Service Books”:

That did the trick. After I sent the service book entries again, the BlackBerry got a message for registering my device at the system. Everything is back working fine.

Best On-Device Backup App for BlackBerry we know: DataBackup! (when the BlackBerry Desktop Manager failed to work properly to transfer my personal data, I used DataBackup to do so. Step 1: Create a new backup and store it on the sd card. Step 2: Take out sd card and put into new BlackBerry. Step 3: Restore backup to the new BlackBerry. Voila!

I hope this howto is of a bit help to you guys. More helpful howtos can be found in our Category:Howtos.

The article “Business podcasts hit BlackBerry” sounds really interesting. Here is an excerpt:

A Chicago-based technology start-up launched new software Monday that allows mobile workers to tune in to corporate podcasts and conferences using their BlackBerry smart phones.

LiquidTalk’s product makes audio-visual business content available on mobile devices. The company has signed an agreement with BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion Ltd. to get marketing and developer support from the smart phone-maker.
[...]
LiquidTalk users access a Web-based portal that organizes content in a personalized playlist format, similar to what consumers have for their digital music and videos. With the RIM agreement, LiquidTalk software will be integrated into BlackBerries that are enabled for multimedia. These devices include the 8800 series, Pearl and Curve.

“Mobile multimedia in the enterprise continues to increase in popularity,” Tyler Lessard, RIM’s director of independent software vendor alliances, said in a statement. “We are seeing a number of applications come to the BlackBerry platform that will allow mobile professionals to incorporate multimedia features into their corporate lifestyle.”
[...]

Source: Chicago Tribune

The system seems to be available for Apple’s iPhone as well.

Just some days ago we reported about the new productivity product DoneIn2Minutes. Now, the vendor S4BB Limited bundels this application with their three other productivity applications NextAction!, TaskMaster and HabitMaster at no price increase! Which technically means: By purchasing one of those 3 applications you will get a license of DoneIn2Minutes for free! Nice!

You can find the original notice below.

2008-01-27 DoneIn2Minutes for BlackBerry^® Wireless Handheld for free.

NextAction! ($39.95) | TaskMaster ($19.99) | HabitMaster ($24.95)

Buy one of our 3 market leading productivity applications for BlackBerry^® Wireless Handhelds now and get DoneIn2Minutes for free! The normal market price for DoneIn2Minutes is $9.95 but you will get it for free if you purchase one of the three mentioned productivity applications. This is a time limited offer.


Quick Guide: DoneIn2Minutes_quick_guide.pdf
Integration Guide: DoneIn2Minutes_integration_guide.pdf


 

NextAction! ($39.95) | TaskMaster ($19.99) | HabitMaster ($24.95)

The RIM, BlackBerry and SureType families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.
Getting Things Done and GTD are registered trademarks of David Allen & Co.
NextAction!, TaskMaster^™, HabitMaster and DoneIn2Minutes are exclusive marks or trademarks of S4BB Limited.

More high quality software for BlackBerry devices can be found at our BlackBerryInsight Software Store!

Mobile Quotes and Analysis for BlackBerry has just been updated. The last version has been released about 11 months ago and therefor, MarketFilters just brought an update on this. Especially the current turbulent times on the market need our full attention!

Features:

• Stock and index quotes.
• Charts of price and Market Filters scores.
• MarketFilters scan results.
• Light-weight and transfers significantly less data than a website.
• Uses webservices provided by Market Filters for the scan and quote data.
• Built for BlackBerry devices.

New in version 2.0 (2008-01-22):

• Symbols are added to a list and quotes are pulled for all at once
• Detailed information and charts can be viewed for any symbol in the list
• Indexes can be shown or hidden through the options
• The application can stay open (in the background) so the most recent quotes are shown on next view
• Advanced connection parameters can be added for carriers that require special settings
• Market Scans now use the same powerful scanning technology available on the website
• A counter of data transmitted is shown on the options screen
• The most recent scan remains on the scan page after getting a quote for a symbol
• Improved user interface

Screenshots:

Free Download:

• OTA: Visit this URL on your BlackBerry: http://www.marketfilters.com/widgets/v2/MarketFilters.jad.
• Desktop Installation: Download both the ALX and COD file below then install on your device using the Desktop Manager. ALX file: http://www.marketfilters.com/widgets/v2/MarketFilters.alx, COD file: http://www.marketfilters.com/widgets/v2/MarketFilters.cod.

Related links:

• Free Download: Mobile Analysis and Quotes Application
• Mobile Quotes and Analysis Page

Other discounted software for BlackBerry devices can be found at our BlackBerryInsight Software Store!

To use BerryDialer you need to install the device on your device.

Here is a good howto on how to install applications on your BlackBerry: http://www.blackberryinsight.com/2006/12/28/installing-3rd-party-applications-2/

After you installed the application successfully, please perform a reboot of your device.

There is a quite good howto online: http://www.blackberryinsight.com/2007/04/22/howto-reboot-your-blackberry/

Now you need to setup a calling card within BerryDialer. Therefor, click onto the Icon of BerryDialer, select “Add” and enter your calling card there. Confirm everything and exit this screen.

For calling a contact using a calling please select the contact in your address book and click “BerryDialer Call” in the address book’s menu. You can now select one of the calling cards you have set up in BerryDialer’s administration screen (described above). Your contact will then be called using the calling card you selected, and you are going to save a lot of money on voice calls

More interesting BlackBerry software can be found at our BlackBerryInsight Software Store!

A new productivity application release has just hit the market. Please check it out below.

S4BB Limited is proud to announce the final release of DoneIn2Minutes.

DoneIn2Minutes is supposed to work with S4BB Limited’s productivity applications like TaskMaster^™ and NextAction!. However, it will work with any other task application as well. As the name already tells us: DoneIn2Minutes will help you to track your task processing so you can find out how long you need for actually processing a task. The usual task processing workflow is: Checking the task list, start processing a task and marking the task as done after it has been processed completely. So now the productivity interested user can start DoneIn2Minutes before start processing a task to figure out how long it takes to process this specific task.

The two minute time frame is a specific GTD^® related duration for processing a task immediately before deferring it. So all tasks that take up to 2 minutes to process should be processed directly at the moment they come up. This decreases bureaucracy in adding a task to your task processing system. With the experience a user can gather from using DoneIn2Minutes this bureaucracy can be reduced to a minimun and increase productivity!

DoneIn2Minutes

Designed for BlackBerry^® Wireless Handheld

Features | Screenshots | Purchase (Download)

Description

As every task that takes longer than 2 minutes should be deferred, every task that takes less or about 2 minutes should be done right at the
moment. You can now use your BlackBerry® Wireless Handheld to figure out which kind of task takes less than 2 minutes and can be done right now.
This will help you to implement GTD^® (Getting Things Done^®) with your BlackBerry^® Wireless Handheld.

Features

Check your Processing Helps you implement GTD® on your BlackBerry®. Fast Processing Easy to use: Start: Automatically at program startup Restart: Hit the space bar, enter or press the restart button Stop: Exit the program with the escape key

Screenshots

Quick & Integration Guide

The quick guide can be download here: DoneIn2Minutes_quick_guide.pdf The integration guide can be downloaded here: DoneIn2Minutes_integration_guide.pdf

Purchase (Instant Download)

Only $9.95 at MobileSoftMarkt

Purchase with Confidence

30-DAY unconditional Money Back Guarantee SECURE Online Ordering NO WAITING: Instant Download FREE Lifetime Software Upgrades FAST Customer Support

Getting Things Done and GTD are registered trademarks of David Allen & Co.

Your mobile software experts at S4BB Limited

The new free download is here!

BlackBerryInsight presents the unique special report for BlackBerry^® users: Mobile Pickup Guide!

This guide contains a lot of useful information on how to attract and pickup women. It is especially very convenient to have it on your BlackBerry^® everywhere you go and everywhere you want to go straight. Check it out! It’s for free!
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That’s how it may look if your BlackBerry Pearl crashes.

I got my BlackBerry Pearl about a year ago and it worked fine. Every day! As the nature of a BlackBerryInsight editor brings a lot of tasks like program testing along, this device had to run a lot of different software. Some of the software were crap, some were great and some were just amazing. However, this morning it seems the device have crashed completely. Not just my alarm didn’t work (so I got up too late) – the complete device didn’t do nothing anymore. It was neccessary to perform a hardware reset by pulling and replacing the battery.

The BlackBerry’s state was just: The “Phone Application Help” was activated and sometimes later a Calendar object reminder popped up to inform me about what to do. As shown in the screen shot, the BlackBerry Pearl crashed at this point. The hard reset fixed it but technically this should not happen, right?

Anyway, everything is back working fine now.

More information:

• BlackBerry Shortcuts Overview
• More Howtos

The screen shot above might be familiar to you if you have a new device (e.g. a new Curve, Pearl or 88xx) and want to install a third party application. Well, I know the application works on my device because I saw it on the same model already. An OTA download URL would work to install this application but I don’t want OTA as I got the BlackBerry Desktop Software here. That’s what the software is for: installing application (and other stuff as well of course).

The version of the desktop software seems to be quite new:

Anyway, I figured out that there is a new version available from my provider (HK CSL) already. So I downloaded the most recent version of the BlackBerry Desktop Software (which has version 4.3 now) and the installation works fine. A list of a lot of providers that have customized BlackBerry software can be found here: The BlackBerry provider software download list.

So this is how to solve this issue. It has been mentioned alread at the complete howto for installing third party applications to a BlackBerry device: Install Applications (Windows).

For more howtos please feel free to check out our Howtos Category.