It can be hard finding good applications and accessories and I wanted to pass along a few that I have had that have been useful. If you have any let me know, thanks.
Here are a few free applications that work well for me. They are easy to use even if you don't know what an RSS feed is, I didn't until I loaded the application, but it is a great tool. Some of them are task specific and if you don't have an interest in that it still may be a fun novelty. Some require GPS capability to be enabled so depending on your carrier it may or may not work. None of these have caused any problems and I have had them all for at least six months some for more than a year. I have an 8830 but most of theses are compatible with all 7000 and 8000 series depending on your os.
Viigo- this is an RSS feed that let's you select from a list of channels and websites or you can add your own, including Opti-Board. You can also set up various Google, MSN, and Yahoo, searches on any keywords you choose.
For those who don't know what this does or worry that it may be complicated I assure you that if I can figure it out anybody can. Basically it works like this,
Select a few websites from the list of over 100, for example, CNN. During the day any updates from the CNN site are gathered by the service and ready for you when you open the Viigo application. If you have several sites you want to check you only have to open one application and scroll down you list, see what's new, click on what you want to read, that's all. There are categories that make it easy to find topics of interest from science and technology to entertainment and sports.
CarFinder- allows you to log your GPS fix so you can find your car in the parking lot.
MicroSky- gives you a view of the viewable starts, planets, and other interesting heavenly bodies, day or night based on any location in the world. You can use GPS or zip code, zoom, rotate, and pan, from any location.
StockViewer- allows you to select stocks and reports there current market price, gain or loss, and overall market activity. You can drill down and get details on performance up to a year shown as a bar graph.
CNN, NY Times, Fox News- all have application icons you load on to your phone. All you have to do is click the icon and it takes you to their page formatted for Blackberry.
Google Chat and Yahoo have Blackberry formatted icons and applications as well, and as I understand it ussing Google Chat, for example, does not count as a text message that you are billed for by your carrier, it is part of the data plan.
That's just a couple I have some good websites and accessories too, well see how many have an interest.
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