Just like any other computer, your BlackBerry has a set amount of internal memory to perform tasks and run applications. Some devices have more memory than others, and some can be outfitted with external cards, but one fact remains the same whether you use a BlackBerry 6230 or Curve 8320: The more services you employ and apps you run, the more memory you need. As you increase the number of applications and processes running on your device, you’ll eventually see degradations in performance and perhaps system crashes.
In case you download an already BlackBerry-compatible video somewhere from the internet, it might be zipped into a .zip file. So how do you get it to your BlackBerry?
Just unzip the video .zip package. This can be done mostly with just a double-click. An AVI file will be extracted. Now please connect your BlackBerry to your computer and a new drive letter will be created automatically (which maps to your BlackBerry’s internal SD-Card). Please copy the video onto this SD Card (subdirectory: blackberry/videos) and you are done.
Open your BlackBerry’s media player, select “videos” and you should find your video listed there.
In case you have a video that is not compatible with your BlackBerry yet, you can use the BlackBerry Video Generator to convert it to a format your BlackBerry understands
Now you can use the camera in your BlackBerry Curve or Pearl to capture and share notes from a whiteboard with your team.
We have set up a private link for a select group of folks who follow BlackBerry to go and try this new app. It will go live at 1pm Pacific Thursday 3/27. m.scanr.com/preview.aspx
The public site is live since Friday 3/28. We hope that you might have the chance to give this service a try.
Until last year, BlackBerry’s were not available with cameras. Well, a lot has changed in the last 12 months, which illustrates how quickly and profoundly the mobile market shifts. The biggest selling BlackBerry’s are the Curve and the Pearl and they both have up to 2 megapixel cameras. It was a big day for the team at scanR when these were announced as they signaled the complete acceptance of cameras across all segments of phones, from the low-end all the way up to business devices. As with the iPhone, we are eagerly awaiting the arrival of even better cameras on BlackBerry’s. Better cameras enable the full suite of scanR services which allow people to scan business cards, office documents, magazines and books.
For now, your BlackBerry Curve or Pearl is perfectly suited to capture your notes and whiteboards on the go.
Instead of feverishly scrawling down notes during the meeting, maybe missing some of what is being said or needing to spend extra time after the meeting to copy the notes – simply use scanR to capture the notes written on the whiteboard. The new BlackBerry scanR app also lets you easily share the notes with colleagues/friends.
You can go to scanR Mobile for BlackBerry by browsing to m.scanR.com on your phone or www.scanR.com on your computer.
Small business owners and office managers can now get big-business advantages in a BlackBerry(R) solution. AT&T Inc. and Research in Motion announced today the availability of BlackBerry(R) Professional Software for AT&T’s small business customers, which provides a wireless communications and collaboration solution with advanced security features designed specifically for small and midsize companies.
BlackBerry Professional Software is a logical and intuitive wireless communications and collaboration solution that provides small business-focused features, security performance and support options in an easy-to-use solution, supporting up to 30 wireless users. It enables wireless access to e-mail, calendar, contacts, business data and Internet access while helping owners and office managers focus on running their business. This new solution helps them to respond quickly to their customers and provides employees with the ability to accomplish more each day by using their BlackBerry smartphones from AT&T.
“BlackBerry Professional Software will allow our small business customers to more easily afford and implement BlackBerry service so that they have many of the controls and security features and the productivity benefits of staying connected that large business customers enjoy,” said Michael Woodward, AT&T vice president, Business Voice/Data and Wireless Products. AT&T is the world’s largest BlackBerry service provider.
We announced this quite a long time ago and nothing happened - our apologies. However, finally we could get a brand new application for you to download for free!
The Tracklog experience on your mobile! Designed to be easy to use.
Records a tracklog.
Elevation & time can be tracked.
Configurable timespan between positions.
Extensive statistical information.
MobileTracker is very easy to use:
Two-click tracklog recording.
Background tracking.
Color coded status display.
NEW: Photo support.
Guaranteed: 100% subscribtion free!
Easily record tracklogs using your mobile device and show them in Google Earth™ or publish them with Google Maps™.
Features:
Recording a Tracklog:
MobileTracker has been designed to be as easy to as possible. Within 2 easy steps you can start recording a tracklog: 1. Start MobileTracker; 2. Press the start button to start the recording. Moreover, you can select the delay that should be between every recorded point of your tracklog. This allows you to adjust the recording to your movement.
One more button click is needed to stop the recording and save the tracklog to the specified location.
Integration:
All of MobileTracker’s information can be quickly viewed in Google Earth’s™ 3D view. It is even not necessary to copy the tracklog file from the device. The BlackBerry® can be easily connected to your desktop computer. By selecting the directory your tracklog has been stored to, you will immediately find your tracklog. Double clicking on it will automatically open your tracklog in Google Earth™.
Furthermore, the tracklog can be published and shared over the web using the free Google Maps™ service. So you can now easily embed a tracklog from your hiking, biking or running trip into your website. Imagine of publishing your current and previous running logs on your website or blog to let people take part in your hobby. Taking advantage of the BlackBerry® you already have will minimize your expense on additional GPS hardware.
Programs like NASA WorldWind are compatible with the tracklog format as well.
Installation:
The installation process of MobileTracker is as easy with other third party programs. Using the BlackBerry® Desktop Manager on Windows or PocketMac on MacOS X machines will bring the program to your BlackBerry® in less than a minute. The fancy MobileTracker icon will appear on your BlackBerry® desktop and you can go ahead tracking yourself!
Statistics & Photos:
MobileTracker is a professional tracking application which also creates advanced statistics of your track. You can see an example of such a statistic field for a KML/KMZ tracklog file visualized in Google Earth™ below. Besides those statistics, MobileTracker is able to store photos you make with your built-in digital camera of your BlackBerry® if you are going to save your tracklog to a KMZ file. An example of such a photo can also be seen below.
Technical Details:
GPS:
Using the JSR-179 location API MobileTracker takes full advantage of the built-in A-GPS features.
or
Requires an external Bluetooth GPS receiver to get full GPS support. Any Bluetooth GPS receiver should work.
Requirements:
8130, 8310, 8800, 8820, 8830 with activated internal GPS.
8100, 8120, 8300, 8320 with external Bluetooth GPS receiver.
Installed Micro SD-Card.
General:
Records a tracklog and all its positions to a file which can be viewed on a desktop computer with Google Earth™, Google Maps™, NASA WorldWind™ or other applications.
Saves the tracklog file on the built-in SD-Card.
Supported file formats: KML/KMZ and GPX.
Easy integration into Google Earth™ and Google Maps™.
Background tracking.
Live view: position and altitude output.
The timespan between two tracklog points is configurable.
Details included for the tracklog: number of waypoints, start and end time, total time traveled, total distance traveled, direct distance start to end, total average speed.
Details included for each position: running number, time stamp, time traveled from start, distance traveled from star, direct distance to start, average speed from start.
Details are recorded in metric and imperial units.
Regional settings of your device are respected for displaying and tracking of numbers and time information.
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Toronto, Canada – One of Transcontinental Media’s most popular websites, TheHockeyNews.com (THN.com) is expanding into mobile! Thanks to a partnership with Redboom Solutions, THN.com launched a rich media mobile site today — just in time for the first round of the NHL Playoffs.
“The mobile platform is a natural fit for THN.com, and this deal further extends the reach of the The Hockey News brand — which has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. There is a huge appetite for the hockey news and features that THN.com is famous for delivering, so having a presence on mobile plays perfectly into the behaviour of THN.com’s core audience.” said Caroline Andrews, Publisher, Sports & Entertainment for Transcontinental Media.
The mobile website will bring all of the hallmark features of THN.com – blogs, columns, analysis and other regular features – to the mobile web and make them available to users around-the-clock, on-demand, and at no cost.
Transcontinental Media opted for a technology solution which allows THN.com visitors to access content on their mobile phones without compromising the design and quality of the wired website. In this way, we completely eliminate the need for creating and maintaining separate mobile-specific portals.
Users can access the site by simply typing mobile.THN.com into any web-enabled mobile phone, including Blackberry and Apple iPhone.
The keynote speaker Friday at NOMA’s annual general meeting urged community leaders to use the creative juices inside a community to reinvent and reinvigorate industry.
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Murray said one-third of all new jobs come from the creative sector, including engineering, science, and arts and culture. He spoke of Research In Motions’ Blackberry as an example of transferring an idea into a new product.
This howto is about getting your favorite waypoint / point of interest / landmark collection into the Spot GPS & mapping application on your BlackBerry® Wireless Handheld.
A “waypoint” is defined as “a reference point in physical space used for purposes of navigation.” (source wikipedia.org).
In this howto we will cover the import of GPX files into the Spot mapping application. GPX (GPS eXchange format) is the most famous format for exchanging GPS data. So you will be able to visualize your own waypoint along with your current position on a map on your BlackBerry. A very good example for our demonstration will be the Unesco World Heritage which has a lot of places all over the world that are geo-coded. As there is currently not an official GPX file available I downloaded the most recent version in Google’s KML format and converted it to GPX using the free GPSBabel program*.
Technically it is very easy to import those files as Spot supports on the new BlackBerry devices (Pearl, Curve and 8800) file system access. So we can just copy the file to our device. As I am using a BlackBerry Pearl with a 1 GB micro SD-Card I just connect the Pearl to my desktop computer. A “drive” will be created automatically and I copy the .gpx file onto the SD-Card of my Pearl.
Once the .gpx file is copied to the BlackBerry just start Spot and go to “Waypoints - Import GPX (file)”. A file browser will pop up and you can navigate to the directory you copied your .gpx file to. Just select the mentioned GPX file and all containing waypoints will automatically be imported into your Spot’s waypoint database. They will also automatically assigned to a new category which has the same name like your GPX file.
You can now do all operations on these new waypoints (route, show on map, edit, delete, export, etc.). Spot is available for all current BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds and works well with the internal GPS receiver as well as with external Bluetooth GPS receivers. You can get a free demo version here:
* … That also works with tracklogs created by Skylab’s MobileTracker (which produces KML files as well) by converting them to GPX and importing them into Spot.
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Toronto, Canada – One of Transcontinental Media’s most popular websites, TheHockeyNews.com (THN.com) is expanding into mobile! Thanks to a partnership with Redboom Solutions, THN.com launched a rich media mobile site today — just in time for the first round of the NHL Playoffs.
