by Robb Dunewood on September 14, 2009 · 1 comment
Tethering your BlackBerry to your laptop to use it as a wireless modem is nothing new. Some carriers offer this ability as an additional service for a monthly fee and there are also premium applications such as TetherBerry that provide this ability as well.
The problem in the past has been tethering your BlackBerry to a Mac or Linux based laptop has been very difficult if not impossible. This, however, is no longer the case with Berry4All.
Berry4All has been tested an confirmed to work on OS X and multiple flavors and version of Linux. The best thing about Berry4All, formerly known as BerryTether, is that it is completely free. Thats right, Berry4All is open source and freely distributed.
If you own BlackBerry and want to get your Mac OS X or Linux based laptop on the internet through your device’s data connection, give Berry4All a try. You absolutely cannot beat the price…
[Via Berry4All]
If you use a BlackBerry long enough, there will come a time when you really need to make a call, but, because you forgot to put your device on the charger the night before, you are presented with the infamous “Battery too low for radio use” warning.
What really stinks is that you charger is right there, your BlackBerry is on and charging, but, you still can’t make any calls until you juice your battery up for 10 minutes or so. All you can do is just sit there wishing that there was some way that you could force your radio on so that you could make one all important call.
Well, this one scenario must have happened to BlackBerry developer @FabianMH one too many times because he solved the problem with a really cool free BlackBerry application called ForeceRadioOn, that, exactly as its name implies, forces the radio on your BlackBerry on even when it believes that your battery is too low.
Now, it should be noted that there is probably a really good reason why your BlackBerry shuts the radio off when the battery gets to low, however, ForceRadioOn, which you can get for free through the RIMarkable Store, definitely comes in handy in those rare emergency situations.
:::Download ForceRadioOn v1.0 here…
There is another internet radio application for the BlackBerry making its way around the web called iHeartRadio and it looks pretty promising. Unfortunately, iHeartRadio doesn’t work on the BlackBerry Storm so I will have to wait until I can install on one of my backup devices before I give you my two cents. From the screens shots, however, the interface looks really good. Maybe even better than Slacker.
iHeartRadio is currnetly supported on the BlackBerry Pearl, Curve, and Bold. Not sure about the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and it is coming soon to the BlackBerry Storm. iHeartRadio is a free BlackBerry download and you can get it here.
iHeartRadio for BlackBerry Storm now available…
Our 5 Free BlackBerry Storm Applications Worth Downloading post that we did a week and a half ago was so popular in terms of page views that we’ve decided to follow it up with 5 more free BlackBerry Storm applications worth downloading. This time, however, we are going to showcase BlackBerry Storm specfic applications that run only on the BlackBerry Storm. [click to continue…]
After a long hard day of hardly posting we were going through the BlackBerry threads before we called it a night and came across this free BlackBerry download via BerryReview.com.
The folks over at www.northcubed.com have created Countdown Timer for BlackBerry and are offering as a free BlackBerry download which you can download to your device OTA.
Usage is simple enough, start the application, set a countdown period and select start, you can toggle pause using the spacebar and when the countdown completes there’s an unobtrusive 2.5 second vibrate to let you know you should be wrapping up whatever you’re doing.
We’ve got more screen shots after the jump.
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