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Free Blackberry Software
With utmost love for my new little Bold 9700 (and respectively all my past blackberry models), I had to go out and find updated/new software to make my gadget even more useful. There’s basic criteria in order for the software to meat by eye: free, intriguing, useful.
Viigo
This program is like the Swiss army knife of phone programs. From being an RSS reader, to a flight locator, this program takes the cake. I love having the ability to view my favorite news sites without limit, view all the weather information possible for all the zip codes I want, AND being able to quickly find something interesting to do locally…all within the same awesome fucking program.
CalorieCounter
Ever since I got fat thanks to over-bulking this lifting season, I’ve been watching my intake and keeping track of my excersizing. This program is phenomenal when it comes to calculating what I ate (fat, carbs, calories) and how much I’ve burned (by doing anything from desk work to running 10mph). It does require an internet connection (which isn’t a hassle, really), but the ability to locate anything from ABC rootbeer to Z’s ribs n more.
Google Maps
I’ve been using this program since they released the first version a few years ago. It was quite rough in its early days, but Google’s engineers have made some spectacular fucking strides with it since. My favorite feature that it has now is how it informs you what direction you’re headed which is great for city-navigating.
Opera Mini
Since I bought my first blackberry curve I’ve had this program. I wasn’t a big fan of blackberry’s default browser then nor am I now. Although your traffic is sent through opera’s servers, its safely anonymized (as much as anonymity is worth) and simple things like cookie/session hijacking and xss attacks are filtered.
New BlackBerry Bold 9700
Last weekend I did a quick trip up to d.c. again to try and suck up enough of the sights as possible in the little bit of time I have left before trucking to Florida. We stopped off at the Museum of American History to get a buffalo burger and some other indigenous food along with checking out a few of the outside works of art. Afterwards we stumbled over to the Museum of Natural History to check out a huge armored-fish (Dunkleosteus terrelli) skull that apparently was unearthed in the Beaver Creek area not far from where I lived.
I’ve been due for a while for a new phone but I put it off thanks to the Christmas season (and the load of money I dropped on people). I figured it was about time to put down my trusty BlackBerry Curve 8300 and upgrade to something prettier. The sales guy at the kiosk convinced me to steer away from the curve and welcome myself to the bold models, mainly on the computing abilities of the bold as well as the trackpad instead of the trackball that the curve models have. I must say, the trackpad is definitely a different lifestyle to learn when you’re so used to the trackball, but I’ve absolutely fallen in love with the trackpad. Its so much smoother and sensitive, and its extremely accurate.
BlackBerry Bold 9700