{"id":3734,"date":"2008-05-19T08:55:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T14:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:38:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:38:46","slug":"what-im-running-on-my-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/what-im-running-on-my-blackberry\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m running on my BlackBerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I have to say &#8211; I was very apprehensive about getting a BlackBerry when Laurie originally suggested it to me a couple months back. For one &#8211; they didn&#8217;t seem to have many of the of the features and options I wanted in a phone. And two &#8211; every time I had looked at data plans in the past &#8211; the cost was just too outrageous. But after close to a month of use with my BlackBerry Curve &#8211; 8310 I&#8217;m sold. Granted our data plans aren&#8217;t near as cheap in the U.S. as they are in the U.K. &#8211; but they&#8217;re a lot cheaper now than they used to be.<\/p>\n<p>After searching for a better browser to use on my BlackBerry (aka CrackBerry) I thought I&#8217;d put together a list of some of the software I&#8217;ve added to my device to make my day so much easier.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/mobile\/\">Google Mobile Suite<\/a> &#8211; this was the first software I added to my phone and I use it daily. Comes with Google Mail, Google Reader, Google Maps, Google Search, Google News, Picaso (which I don&#8217;t use) and Calendar Sync. If you&#8217;re already using Google products such as Gmail this is a must have. And I love Google Maps with the built in GPS. It&#8217;s saved me several times when my original directions weren&#8217;t as good as I thought &#8211; or when I got lost trying to take a shortcut.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/na.blackberry.com\/eng\/builtforblackberry\/\">Google Talk for Blackberry<\/a> &#8211; downloaded this from the <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.blackberry.com\">mobile.blackberry.com<\/a> site. Works great. It logs me off randomly from time to time but it&#8217;s a great way to keep in touch with folks when I&#8217;m away from my desktop. Laurie and I most often use BlackBerry Messenger (that comes with the phone) for an ongoing chat &#8211; but I use GTalk to keep in touch with others I chat with throughout the day as well.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.orangatame.com\/products\/twitterberry\/\">TwitterBerry<\/span> &#8211; Thomas found this software for me. Love it. Makes Twittering so much more fun from my BlackBerry. Although, I wish they had a feature for alerting you when Tweets are posted from your friends, rather than just getting the typical txt messages. The software makes replying to Tweets so much easier &#8211; but it could be faster if you were alerted about new Tweets in the software (like Gmail does) rather than via txt messaging.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.yahoo.com\/\">Flickr for Blackberry<\/a> &#8211; after trying a couple other programs to send photos to Flickr, I found Yahoo Mobile&#8217;s software for Flickr. I could really care less about the rest of the software package (and removed most of it) but the Flickr app is great!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blackberry.geocaching.com\/\">Trimble Geocaching Navigator<\/a> &#8211; priceless! I&#8217;ve really only taken full advantage of this software once but this really bumps up my enjoyment of the geocaching game. I&#8217;m running a 30-day trial right now but plan on buying a one year subscription ($40) to the service after that runs out. Connects your BlackBerry with GPS directly to the Geocaching website and lets you search for geocaches X number of miles from your location and then shows you the details, descriptions, hints, logs etc &#8211; all on your phone while you search for the geocache. Awesome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s about it for now &#8211; minus a couple random games I&#8217;ve found for free. But as the list grows I&#8217;ll try and remember to come back and update this list as well. I found a great app the other day that also uses the phone&#8217;s built in GPS to guide you to your parked car in the parking lot. May have to get that a bit latter as well.<\/p>\n<p>The only feature I&#8217;d really want to add\/change would be built-in Wi-Fi. The feature comes with some of the higher-end models so I&#8217;m hoping that when the time comes to upgrade (2 years from now) it will be common place for sure.<\/p>\n<p>What software\/hacks are you using most?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I have to say &#8211; I was very apprehensive about getting a BlackBerry when Laurie originally suggested it to me a couple months back. For one &#8211; they didn&#8217;t seem to have many of the of the features and options I wanted in a phone. 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