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Free BlackBerry Themes

eVeek has been around for almost a year and in celebration of their first birthday, have decided to release 3 premium BlackBerry themes absolutely free. Head over to elecite.eVeek.com where you can download iBerry, Precision, and OSX with no strings attached. They don’t even ask you for an email address.

You can also dowload these premium free BlackBerry themes OTA directly to your BlackBerry by visiting elecite.eVeek.com/wap on your devices browser…

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BlackBerry Wallet

BlackBerry Wallet has been designed to make shopping on your BlackBerry smartphone faster and easier. It lets you use information securely stored on your BlackBerry smartphone to help fill in forms with credit card, reward program and shipping information.

How Does it Work?

Simply switch to the BlackBerry Wallet when you’re ready to make a purchase. Enter your password, and populate your credit card information, delivery details and more.

Security

Your credit card and shipping information are your business. For your protection, not even you can use your BlackBerry Wallet without entering a password. It’s also AES encrypted, so you can be sure your data is secure.

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To download BlackBerry Wallet, visit mobile.blackberry.com from your BlackBerry Browser.

Mobile File Manager

Mobile File Manager allows you to connect to remote computers and network shares. Edit web pages and deploy sites, upload photos to websites, transfer files, view graphics on remote computers, edit configuration files, monitor log files and much more, all from your BB handheld. And it’s absolutely FREE!

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Main Screen

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Setting Screen

How it works

Mobile File Manager supports Windows File Sharing, WebDAV, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Secure FTP (SFTP) connections. You can make these connections using either:

  • the MDS Service on a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server
  • TCP/IP

Mobile File Manager will automatically detect the best way to connect. If you are on a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Mobile File Manager will connect through the MDS Service. If you are not on a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Mobile File Manager will connect through TCP/IP.

Supported devices

  • Color BlackBerry smartphones with OS 4.0 or above (for best results we recommend 64 MB devices with a trackball)

Security

  • TDES or AES with BlackBerry Enterprise Server
  • SFTP with Secure Shell (SSH) encryption
  • WebDAV with SSL encryption

Download Link

How-To Video: Install and Use Six Free Killer BlackBerry Apps

Editor:

My name is Al Sacco and I’m a writer with CIO.com.  

I thought a video clip I posted today might be of interest to you and your readers.  The clip offers up six free BlackBerry downloads and shows how to install and use them.  You may be familiar with some, if not all, of them, but I think the video could be helpful to new BlackBerry users or folks who don’t download lots of apps.

Anywho, here’s the link:

How-To Video: Install and Use Six Free Killer BlackBerry Apps
http://www.cio.com/article/201201

Thanks, and take care.

MiniMoni - A Free Traffic Monitor for BlackBerry

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Main features:

 

  • Counts the IP traffic on GSM/GPRS/EDGE network in byte.
  • Scrolling graph to visualize the traffic of the last minutes.
  • Builds sums on a daily and a time period basis.
  • The day the period ends in the month is configurable.
  • A lot of functions can be configured in the preferences in particular to show in bytes or kbytes.
  • Maintains a daily and a period’s logbook. Logbook entries can have user remarks.
  • You may switch on an alarm once a particular amount of traffic volume is reached in the period.
  • For devices with SD card the program can write the content of the logbook to SD.
  • Separate “Traffic watch” to observe the traffic for a limited period of time separately (Testing of an application etc.)
  • Supported languages are English, German and Italian.
  • Auto starts on device reboot and installation of new versions.
  • Tested and proofed to work on different BlackBerry devices.
  • New in version 1.01.01:

  • The period’s alert is now a system alert in the alertprofiles of your BlackBerry.
  • There is a version for 4.1 devices now. See the links on the left hand side.
  • Spanish language version.
  • Home Screen

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    The two top lines contain the daily and monthly cumulated traffic. Updated every minute.
    The daily will be reset at midnight and a record is added to the logbook.
    The monthly will be reset at midnight at the last day of the month.

    The graph in the middle shows the traffic over the last minutes. Please take into account that the amount is logarithmic by base 10. The figures are representing bytes. Updated every second.

    Cycle elapsed time is an internal measurement to show how many milliseconds it takes to calculate all values during the last second. Updated every second.

    In and Out show the cumulated traffic on the device since the last reboot. Updated every second. Accordingly max/s show the maximum number of bytes per second since the last restart of the program. Updated every second.

    Net does show the string of the current provider name.

    Volt shows the status of the voltage of the battery as well as the gauge below shows the percentage of battery load left. Updated every minute.

    Logbook Screen

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    This screen shows the collected logbook records.

    On the top the summaries are shown with the last date and time this data was written to the permanent record store.

    The bottom of the screen shows the collected records. Navigation can be done with the trackball or page wise by 3 (up) and 9 (down)

    Preference Screen

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    Show scale lines

     

    Controls if the scale lines are shown.

    Nice graphics

    Controls if the header background is shaded.

    Gray background

    If the header is shaded this option defines if a gray or an orange color is used.

    Show in kB

    This switches the display to show the figures in kB instead of bytes.

    Show cycle elapsed time

     

    Move automatically to background

    If this option is checked, the application is moved to background after 60 seconds of not being used.

    Never terminate

    This option ensures that the application is never terminated, even if you use “Close” from the main menu.

    Stop graphic in holster

    Checking this, the application stops the graphical output as described above, every time the device is put into holster. Taking it out from holster restarts the graphic (if it was not stopped manually before putting the device in holster)

    Reset period’s counter at period’s end

    Use this to control if the period’s counter is reset automatically add the end of the period. Uncheck this here in order to use the manual reset counter function.

    Billing day

    This is the day in month when the period’s cut should happen. The following rules apply:

  • The cut is done at 00:00:00 this day every month.
  • If the application was not running at this time, it is done on the next start.
  • If the actual month has less days then “Billing day”, the cut occurs at the last day of the month.
  • In the logbook screen line 4 you can see the start and end of the actual period.
  • Enable period’s limit alert

    If this option is checked the device gives a vibration and optical alert once the limit (in bytes) is reached.
    Please take into account, that the traffic measured this way, does not necessarily fits to the one you find on your bill. In dependency of your cost model there might different ways of rounding.

    Period’s limit (in bytes)

    Enter the number of bytes after the alert should be raised.

    Disable alert in holster

    Decide if the alert should be given in holster as well.

    Please note as well that this will work on GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks only.

    Go to http://www.ehnert.net/MiniMoni/ for downloading.

    Copy and Open Text File on BlackBerry

    I downloaded my favorite novel “band of brother” to my PC as a txt file and I wanted to read it from my BlackBerry on the go. It took a while for me to figure out a way to do so (well,  actually copying it is easy but opening it is not straightfoward), so it might be worthwhile posting it our here to save time of my readers.

    Here is the whole procedure.

    I connected my 8310 to my PC via the USB cable. The 1G-byte micro SD card in my 8130 then appears as drive F: on my PC . I copy the text files from my PC to F:.I disconnect the 8130 from the PC (BlackBerry can’t read the SD memory while it is connected via the USB cable and the SD memory is mounted to PC).

    In order to open and view the text file,  do the following:

    • Click “Media” icon on the home screen - this opens up the Media Application
    • Press the “menu” key
    • Select “Explore”
    • Select “Media Card”
    • Select “Blackberry”
    • Select “<filename>.txt”

    Then done!!! Enjoy your reading!

    Access Google Calendar from your BlackBerry

    By typing calendar.google.com in your BlackBerry browser, you can easily access your Google calendar from your BlackBerry (no software installation is required).

    You can quickly add or view all your schedules in Google calendar on the go. Besides, it is always in sync. If a scheduled event changes it will be reflected immediately on Google Calendar on your BlackBerry.

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    SUPER Video/Audio Converter for BlackBerry

    I was keeping looking for a free video converter to convert all sorts of video clips I have to avi/mp4/3gp format playable on my 8310 for a while. I’ve found a bunch, but none of them make me satisfied. Some can’t convert rm/rmvb files, which I had a lot. Some are not free. Some doesn’t allow me to configure output video parameters (such as size, fps and video bitrate). As soon as I met SUPER@, I know I can stop searching. Although this software is not dedicated to BlackBerry (instead, it is a general purpose Video/Audio transcoder, without targeting any specific platforms), this software provides me every feature I want for video/audio conversion for my BlackBerry.

    • It is totally FREE;
    • It has a very fast conversion speed;
    • It does NOT require any additional external codec to be installed. All the codecs are built-in;
    • It supports two-way conversion between any format lists below.  The format list is the largest I ever see.
      • Video format: 3gp/3g2(Nokia,Siemens,Sony,Ericsson) asf, avi (DivX,H263,H263+,H264,XviD,MPEG4,MSmpeg4 etc..), dat, fli, flc, flv (used in Flash), mkv, mpg (Mpeg I,Mpeg II), mov(H263,H263+,H264,MPEG4 etc..), mp4(H263,H263+,H264,MPEG4), ogg,  qt, rm, ram, rmvb, str (Play Station), swf (Flash), ts (HDTV), viv, vob, wmv;
      • Audio format : aac, ac3, amr, mmf, mp2, mp3, mp4, mpc, ogg, ra, wav, wma
    • It supports easy configuration of the essential output video parameters (size, fps and video bitrate) during file conversion,
      simplifying the user’s encoding process while parsing internally optimized video commands for best encoding results.
    • It supports Easy configuration of the essential output audio parameters (sampling rate, number of channels and audio bitrate)
      during file conversion, simplifying the user’s encoding process while parsing internally optimized audio commands
      for best encoding results.
    • It has Unique Advanced H.264 profile & level selection. Not available in any other software.
    • It provides multiple batch file processing by simple file drag and drop.
    • It has a built-in Multimedia File Analyzing engine (Portions by MediaInfo) to show tags and internal structure of ALL source
      files with a double click.

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    I normally use the following setting to convert video for my 8310.

    •  Output format: mp4
    • Output Video Codec: MPEG-4
    • Output Audio Codec: AAC
    • Video Scale Size: 320:240 (240:260 for 8100 series)
    • Frame Rate: 25 fps
    • Bitrate: 384 kbps

    If you’d like to convert Youtube clips to mp4 video, sorry, SUPER can’t do it directly. But you can use TechCrunch to download the clip to your hardrive as an flv file first, then use SUPER to convert it to mp4 fairly smoothly.  That said, SUPER can pretty much convert all the available video clips to playable format in your BB.

    To download SUPER, go to  eRightSoft website, or simply click here.

    Below list all the video/audio formats BlackBerry supports, serving as a good reference to adjust the conversion configuration when using SUPER.

    Refer to the table below for an overview of supported and unsupported video formats.

    Supported Video Formats Unsupported Video Formats
    • MPEG-4 Part 2 (Simple Profile and bvop, including DivX 4)
      • File formats - .avi, .3gp, .mp4, .mov
      • Video - Up to 320 x 240, up to 800 kbps, up to 30 frames per second
    • H.263 (Profile 0 & Profile 3)
      • File formats - .avi, .3gp, .mp4, .mov
      • Video - up to 320 x 240, up to 800 kbps, up to 30 frames per second
    • Windows Media® Video (Simple Profile)
      • File formats - .wmv
      • Video - Up to 320 x 240, up to 800 kbps, up to 24 frames per second

      Note: Windows Media Video is supported in BlackBerry Device Software 4.2.1 and above.

    • MPEG-4 Part 10 (H.264 / AVC)
    • MPEG-4 Part 2 (Advanced Simple Profile)
    • H.263+
    • DivX 3, 5, 6
    • XviD
    • 3GPP2 (.3g2)
    • Windows Media Video Main/Advanced Profile (.wmv)
    • Advanced Systems Format (.asf)
    • Real Media (.rm)
    • MPEG-1 / MPEG-2

    Refer to the table below for an overview of supported and unsupported audio formats.

    Supported Audio Formats Unsupported Audio Formats
    • MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Layer 3 (.mp3)
    • AAC/AAC+/eAAC+ (.m4a or .aac)
    • MIDI (.mid or .smf)
    • AMR-NB (.amr)
    • WAVE (.wav)
    • Windows Media Audio (.wma)
    • WMAPro - 16 bit, stereo output configuration (.wma)Note: Windows Media Audio and WMAPro are supported in BlackBerry Device Software 4.2.1 and above.
    • MPEG-1 Layer 1 & 2
    • MPEG-2 Layer 1 & 2
    • Real Audio (.ra)

    Additionally, the BlackBerry Media application is designed to support the following audio file containers:

    • .avi containing PCM, MP3, and AAC/ACC+/eACC+
    • .3gp containing MP3, AMR-NB, AAC/AAC+, and eACC+
    • .mp4 containing MP3, AMR-NB, AAC/AAC+, and eACC+
    • .mov containing MP3, AMR-NB, AAC/AAC+, and eACC+
    • .wmv containing WMANote: Windows Media Audio is supported in BlackBerry Device Software 4.2.1 and above.


    BlackBerry 101 Lecture Series

    A super cool lecture from CrackBerry.com. Pretty much covered all the common sense you need to know about BlackBerry.

    2007 Fall Semester

    4 or 5 New BlackBerrys to be launched in 2008!

    This is from  the interview Gregory Wade, RIM’s Vice President of Customer Accounts, had  with Business Standard.  (Considering RIM has launched 8 BlackBerrys in 2007, this is not a surprise :-) )

    The Blackberry Pearl represented almost 55 per cent of RIM’s total shipments in the first quarter of 2007 and with Pearl 8120 (dubbed as Pearl 2) our commitment to have devices that are beautiful and rich in multimedia applications continues.

    RIM recently shipped its 20 millionth Blackberry smart phone and the devices are ranked number one in the global PDA space with 18 per cent market share according to third party research.

    Also, our software partners are developing support for 3D graphics to enable more powerful gaming, and rich-media content is on the cards too.

    We will also announce another 4-5 models in 2008 and all of them would be packed with consumer-friendly applications and design.