DeWitt has ditched his BlackBerry, not wanting to be connected 24-7 anymore. I can understand, I’ve had e-mail on my handheld for about 7 years now: Palm V and Palm Vx with OmniSky Palm i705 Treo 300 Treo 600 BlackBerry 8700 It doesn’t matter what device you use, push e-mail to a mobile device is…
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The BlackBerry interface is unapologetically a power user interface. Much of the functionality is only available through keyboard shortcuts or the click wheel (not immediately apparent via buttons, etc.). In contrast, the Palm OS presents almost all of its functionality in on-screen buttons – eschewing menus for the most part. Once you take make the…
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I was wrong when I said you can’t tether a BlackBerry as a modem in Parallels. You can tether in Parallels, you just have to disable your PocketMac drivers first. Move the BlackberryUSB*.kext folders out of the /System/Library/Extensions folder, restart, then you can connect to your BlackBerry in Parallels with no problem. This is great,…
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Google Maps for the BlackBerry is fantastic! I am often underwhelmed by Google products but the maps team builds some really great stuff. This thing rocks. Thanks to Ethan for linking to this.
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It looks like the folks behind Shark Modem (a BlackBerry modem application for Windows) are considering making a Mac version. I’m on a rooftop in their latest blog post. Will they be the ones to claim the bounty (which is up to $482 now!)?
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My BlackBerry Bounty is up to $400. If you’re interested in using your BlackBerry as a modem for your Mac laptop (PowerBook/MacBook), please consider donating and helping spread the word.
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My BlackBerry Bounty is up to $300. Even better, there is a developer interested in working in the project. Any help you guys can provide to get the word out is appreciated.
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I received this question about my BlackBerry Bounty today: Alex, I noticed that Verizon was omitted in the rules portion of the tethering to a Mac bounty. Is there a reason for this? I just switched to a BB 7130E from a Treo 650, and would love to use it as a modem for my…
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Though I badly want to be able to use my BlackBerry as a modem for my MacBook in Mac OS X (bounty is up to $105!), I can use the BlackBerry as a modem for the MacBook now if I boot into Windows via Boot Camp. This ability was one of the major reasons for…
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As far as I can tell, no one has yet come up with a way to tether a BlackBerry 8700 to a Mac (running Mac OS X) to use it as a modem. This works on the PC, so it’s likely a matter of reverse engineering to get it working on OS X. It seems…
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If you call someone on the Sprint network, you can press 1 to skip the voicemail greeting and get straight to leaving a message. They are even kind enough to tell you this during the extended “instructional” section of the greeting. The inability to do this with my friends on Cingular has always annoyed me,…
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The main reason I’ve decided to make the jump to the BlackBerry, despite it’s shortcomings, is that I no longer have any faith in the Palm OS as a platform. RIP Palm OS With the Palm OS sold and PalmSource looking to build on Linux, I just don’t see the current Palm OS getting “fixed”…
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A little history: Back when I got my Treo 300, I ordered a horizontal leather holster case for it. At the time Leather International was only carrying cases for the Treo 270, but they said that the Treo 300 would fit. It did fit but it didn’t fit well, and when they came out with…
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Out of the box (at least with an “internet plan”), the BlackBerry doesn’t support multiple e-mail personalities (multiple “from” addresses). This absolutely shocked me. The BlackBerry is widely regarded as being a superior mobile e-mail device, so much so that users will forgive pretty much any other shortcomings it may have in other areas, so…
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I finally got my calendar (in iCal) syncing with my BlackBerry via PocketMac. The solution is ugly, but it works. Here is what I did: Back up all my iCal calendar data on my Mac, in several formats just to be safe. Export my calendars in iCal format. Write a little script to split the…
