Facebook for BlackBerry has been updated to version 1.7.0.22.  There is no change log so chances are nothing major has been updated.  The download on BlackBerry App World (at the time of this posting) hasn’t been updated yet, so, head over to http://www.blackberry.com/facebook to get the latest version.  As always, Facebook for BlackBerry 1.7.0.22 is a free BlackBerry download.

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Facebook for BlackBerry Updated To Version 1.7.0.22 is a post from: RIMarkable

One of the first and most popular BlackBerry Twitter clients that seems like it has been around forever is TwitterBerry.  With the release of the latest version, Orangatame Software, the company behind TwitterBerry, has changed the name of the application.  Forevermore, TwitterBerry will known as OpenBeak.

Personally, I like the name TwitterBerry since it pretty much tells you exactly what the applications is and does.  My guess, however, is that the name change comes because of trademarked name infringments.  Research in Motion doesn’t allow any applications with the word “Berry” in their name on BlackBerry Appworld.

OpenBeak features include:

• Post updates to Twitter, including a character countdown from 140 characters
• One-click access to view friends timelines, replies, your favorites, your own timeline, and the public timeline
• Post pictures to Zannel, TwitPic, Twitgoo, or yfrog
• Take a picture with a one-click embedded camera (BlackBerry® Device Software version 4.6+)
• Reply to tweets from each timeline view
• Send and receive direct messages
• Mark tweets as favorites
• Notification icon that indicates the number of unread messages, like new emails or missed calls (BlackBerry® Device Software version 4.6+)
• Cache all avatar images to internal memory, thus saves network access and helps faster loading
• Search Twitter with a keyword or from a list of currently trending topics
• Active text recognition of @usernames and #hashtags
• New Setup wizard
• Two modes of list views: a “fixed height” view and a “variable height” view

OpenBeak is a free BlackBerry application and you can pick it up OTA by pointing your devices BlackBerry browser to http://m.openbeak.com…

TwitterBerry Gets A Name Change… Now Called OpenBeak is a post from: RIMarkable

FierceMobileIT has put together a list of the Top 10 BlackBerry Apps for the Mobile Worker. It is a good mashup of both free and premium apps and we thought we should share.

1. Call Time Tracker — Call Time Tracker is a completely free app designed to help business professionals who account for their time to bill more hours, recover costs, and save valuable time. [Free]
2. Nice Office — Nice Office turns your BlackBerry into a virtual mobile office. Manage your email, calendar, contacts, and tasks. Store forms and documents online and send them directly to your customers. Track sales and lead activity by workflows and status levels. Create custom sales fields and record sales activity. Manage all of the information needed to keep on top of your business. [Free]
3. Exgis Expense Tracker — Exgis Expense Tracker is an easy-to-use productivity tool that lets you track your expenses from your BlackBerry® smartphone as soon as they are incurred. Further, track your expense entries against clients, projects, locations, and for international travelers, even foreign currencies. Export your expenses from your BlackBerry smartphone to a spreadsheet and send it as an email attachment to your office or save it to your computer for future reporting. [$4.99]
4. Personal Assistant — Personal Assistant makes it easy to keep track of spending by listing the status of all your online accounts on just one page… [Free]
5. Poynt — Use Poynt to find people, businesses, movie theatres, retailers and restaurants near you. Poynt uses GPS or cell-site locations to pinpoint you and quickly deliver the information you need whenever and wherever you need it. [Free]
6. WorldMate Live — WorldMate Live is the #1 service for business travelers. It makes your BlackBerry a powerful tool putting all needed travel resources at your disposal. [Free]
7. DriveSafely — DriveSafe.ly reads your text messages and emails out loud so you can concentrate on the road. Eliminate the temptation to reach for your phone by letting DriveSafe.ly read to you and automatically respond for you. [Free]
8. Ascendo DataVault — Ascendo DataVault stores confidential information like Credit Card numbers, usernames, passwords, PINs, etc. on your BlackBerry and Desktop using AES, the most powerful encryption available. [$29.95]
9. File Manager Pro — File Manager Pro is a file and Zip archive manager for your BlackBerry that allows you to open, create, extract and append to Zip archives that are today’s de facto standard for distributing compressed files. [$4.99]
10. UberTwitter — UberTwitter is a full featured location aware Twitter client which supports all of the features of Twitter as well as advanced capabilities such as: photo integration, embeded videos in tweets, tweet shrinking, URL shortening and a plethora of other features.

Top 10 BlackBerry Apps For The Mobile Worker is a post from: RIMarkable

Looks like Research in Motion has changed the name of the latest version of Plazmic Content Developers Kit to BlackBerry Theme Studio 5.0 and is now available for download.  The new name is much more fitting than the last.  Unless you were a BlackBerry theme developer chances were you had no idea what  Pazmic CDK was.  BlackBerry Theme Studio, on the other hand, is not ambiguous at all.

BlackBerry Theme Studio 5.0 is a now available and you can get it free on BlackBerry Developer Zone.

BlackBerry Theme Studio 5.0 Now Available is a post from: RIMarkable

The popular BlackBerry internet radio client, Pandora Radio, has been updated to version 1.1.2 and now works on the  BlackBerry Storm and BlackBerry Storm2.

The version on BlackBerry App World hasn’t been updated with the new release, so, if you want to check it out, head over to www.pandora.com directly from your Storm or Storm2  BlackBerry Browser.

Pandora Updated To v1.1.2 Now With Support For OS 5 is a post from: RIMarkable

Google has updated Google Voice to version 0.1.6.  As usual, they’ve provided not change log so we have no clue as to what the new version does.  I just read on  the Google Voice Blog that GV now works with your existing number, so, maybe the update has something to do with that.   Can’t say for sure…

What I can say is that Google Voice is a heck of a service and you should check it out which you can do at http://m.google.com/voice.

Google Voice Updated To Version 0.1.6 is a post from: RIMarkable

Well, what do you know…  Research in Motion has gone an released Facebook for BlackBerry 1.7, and, I have to say that it has some pretty nice new features:

• News Feed Support – The ability to set the News Feed as the landing page
• News Feed Filters – The ability to toggle between ‘News Feed, Status Updates, Photos & Links’
• Caching Improvements – The application uses the device memory more efficiently.
• Feed Pre-fetching – The user will not be required to wait while their Facebook Feeds are updated
• View Profile Menu Option – Clients may easily view their own profile by selecting ‘View my Profile’ from the menu. “

Now, if RIM would just add the ability for you to see a contacts friends and mutual friends as well as adding Facebook Chat functionality, possibly integrating it with BlackBerry Messenger or something, Facebook for BlackBerry would be one heck of an application.

You can download Facebook for BlackBerry 1.7 by visting www.blackberry.com/facebook from your BlackBerry Browser or get it on BlackBerry App World.

Facebook for BlackBerry 1.7 Now Available is a post from: RIMarkable

Dictionary.com has released a free dictionary and thesaurus app for the BlackBerry that is now available OTA by texting BBAPP to 44636 or on BlackBerry App World.

The free Dictionary.com app for BlackBerry delivers trusted reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com including more than 500,000 terms, definitions, and synonyms. The app also features phonetic and audio pronunciations, spelling suggestions and Dictionary.com’s popular Word of the Day that is enjoyed by millions of people.

Dictionary.com Has Released A Free BlackBerry App is a post from: RIMarkable

BlackBerry Messenger 5 is now officially available from Research in Motion.  You can pick it up over on BlackBerry App World, or, download it OTA by visiting http://blackberry.com/messenger from your device.

BlackBerry Messenger 5 features include:

• Personalize BlackBerry Messenger with a display picture
• Add friends by scanning barcodes or sharing PINs
• Share pictures, videos, voice notes and more with multiple contacts at once
• Create groups of friends, family or colleagues and instantly share calendars, lists, conversations and updates
• See what your friends are listening to by viewing their song titles
• Organize conversation lists by date
• Send and receive text messages
• Back up and restore your contact list

If you have a BlackBerry running OS 4.5 or higher, BlackBerry Messenger 5 is definitely worth picking up.  I fully expect it to jump to the number one spot on App World’s most downloaded apps within a few days at most.

BlackBerry Messenger 5 Has Been Officially Released is a post from: RIMarkable

I received an email this morning from BitStream letting me know that Bolt, a third party mobile web browser that works pretty well on the BlackBerry, is now out of Beta.

Many of the most significant upgrades occur “under the hood,” but you are sure to notice the results – v1.5 is the most reliable, fastest browser we have ever released – more than 15% faster than Beta3.

Here are some of the new and updated features in Bolt 1.5:

• Server upgrades (make v1.5 15% faster than Beta3)
• Cache support that enables directly browsing back to a previously visited page
• Download manager that downloads files directly within BOLT on JSR 75 capable devices
• Dedicated search bar, enabling search on popular search engines directly from BOLT
• Enhanced column width control that auto-aligns the text to columns for ease of reading
• Enhanced video support that includes inline media playing capability even on low-end devices.
• Support for streaming videos of any length
• Volume UP/DOWN controls in the inline media player
• Ability to rearrange the subscribed feeds using the ‘grab’ feature
• Access to History links from the URL window with inline editing OFF
• One click access on Home Page that ensures the cursor jumps to the desired widget

Bolt Browser For BlackBerry Comes Out Of Beta is a post from: RIMarkable