Must Have Software List

twheeler · #1 07-29-2005 -

Great place to start:

There are several web sites that you can visit that have downloads for 3rd party applications for the BlackBerry Handheld:

* http://pda.tucows.com/rimsoft.html
* http://www.handango.com
* http://www.rimroad.com
* http://www.rimdev.com
* http://www.magmic.com

More...

* PinStack Wap Builtin Blackberry forums - FREE!
Join discussions with thousands of Blackberry enthusiasts and professionals online, using your Blackberry! The software and service are totally FREE! Have a Blackberry related question and need fast help? You can search the forums or post your questions or random thoughts online via your Blackberry where other visitors will be able to respond! Have a long wait on the road somewhere? Then log on and relax in the forums with other Blackberry addicts.

JiveSlide: http://www.jiveslide.com - FREE!
Access thousands of pictures on your BlackBerry in seconds. Access your photos from the Internet easily and wirelessly using JiveSlide. Store your photos on Yahoo Photos or Flickr, link your online albums to your JiveSlide account, and sit back as your photos appear instantly on your BlackBerry handheld. No more cables, file format problems, or wasting valuable handheld memory.

PicoNews - www.piconews.com - FREE!
Piconews is the latest product of Blacktouch. A user-friendly and simple software giving you the opportunity to receive news items from all over the world on your Blackberry at any time in any place. The content which you are interested in is now available to roaming users like you!

Handango Inhand: www.handango.com/inhand - FREE
Handango InHand is an on-device software catalog that simplifies the process of finding, installing and purchasing software applications and games for BlackBerry devices. InHand provides a new avenue -- the device itself -- for accessing mobile software downloads. The catalog is an easy-to-use system that allows BlackBerry users to access available software.

BB Messenger - available from www.blackberry.com/messenger/ - FREE
- AIM like chat program for blackberry users to PIN message each other. Very user friendly and excellent interface. Has made PIN messaging fun and friendly, not just a business communication tool for me.

BBLight - available from www.blackberrytools.sourceforge.net/OverTheAir - FREE
- Keeps the light turned without having to be using the device and clicking around. .

Beryy 411 - available from www.rimroad.com - FREE
- This is a very slick program that allows your to type in a search word and find information based upon your location. I use when traveling to find a local Best Buy or good resteraunt. When you find the right location, click on directions and it gives you turn-by-turn directions from Map quest! SWEET.

Ramble - available from http://wireless.sra.com/ramble - FREE
- This is a free AIM client. It uses the info from your account set up via PC to log in and chat to other AIM users. The interface is good and it's easy to use. No support for MSN or yahoo like some of the others out there. Ramble is currently experiencing problems with AOL servers and is not working properly

BB Corrector - available from www.blackberrytools.sourceforge.net/OverTheAir - FREE
- This is a spell checker for your BB. It requires quite a bit of set up (files to be hosted on a server), however there is an extremely kind BB users hosting a site for use.

Wisespent 3.0 - personal finance manager. www.wisespent.com
Keep clean accounts. Stay in touch with your money. Use Wisespent! Wisespent 3.0 lets you keep tracks of your expenses and revenues on your mobile phone. Create as many accounts as you want, Divide accounts by categories, Get an efficient overview of your project, View real-time balance of your account, Automatically insert recurring revenues and recurring expenses, Wisespent is simple top use, multicurrency and multilingual, Send manually or automatically (periodically) backups to your computer and more.

PocketDay - available from www.crossriversystems.com $25 I think
- PocketDay is an all-in-one tool that allows you to see who has called or emailed. What appointments you have or tasks to complete. It halso has a ton of COOL extras. RSS feeds, Weather and stock information and world clocks. Totaly customizable and has a lot more to offer than I mentioned here.

Notifire - available from www.handago.com - $20
- This allows you to set different notifications for different people. v2 is comming out soon and will be a better program all around. The only program that I've seen to set distict rings for your contacts.

Three Free Blackberry Games!
Here are three great games (Circle Popper, Meteor Crusher and Rooster), free for your Blackberry. They are fun and very addictive. You can post your high scores on the net via Blackberry with 100's of other players online!

On to the games...

There are many more software applications out there. Instant message programs, games and business software are becoming more readily available for BB devices.

What program can't you live without? Post in this thread.

twheeler · #2 10-25-2005 -

Khyle, welcome to Pinstack. Most if not all of these applications are Java based. If the Siemens will run Java applications you should be okay. There will be a few that are BB specific due to the nature of the carrier and communication connection.

I'll dig into this a little further and see what I come up with.

kurrupt_1 · #3 10-25-2005 -

nice how you included the price as well.

Elizabeth · #4 10-31-2005 -

Has anyone here purchased Dynoplex's software (from Handango)? They have a seven-day free trial for most of their office-type applications. I've heard it is worth trying but haven't yet tried myself.

twheeler · #5 10-31-2005 -

I tried the demo but never purchased the product.

It's very good, but I don't do nor do I want to do that much wprd processing on my BB.

**hayden** · #6 10-31-2005 -

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elizabeth

Has anyone here purchased Dynoplex's software (from Handango)? They have a seven-day free trial for most of their office-type applications. I've heard it is worth trying but haven't yet tried myself.

I've alo ued Dynoplex demo. It's worth every penny for the person who's not always inoffice like me.

Read more about it here

tweber78 · #7 11-11-2005 -

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elizabeth

Has anyone here purchased Dynoplex's software (from Handango)? They have a seven-day free trial for most of their office-type applications. I've heard it is worth trying but haven't yet tried myself.

I tried the download trial but gave up on it. It was slow. I guess BBspell is all I need.

gordonb50 · #8 11-11-2005 -

I tried the trial version and my BB started locking up 2 or 3 days into the trial. Liked what I saw, but didn't have enough time to really ring it out. Tried again about 2 weeks later and ended up with the same results. That time I got a memory error, so I uninstalled / deleted the software.

Just my experience.

GooGaYa · #9 11-14-2005 -

Quote:

Originally Posted by twheeler

There are several web sites that you can visit that have downloads for 3rd party applications for the BlackBerry Handheld:

* http://pda.tucows.com/rimsoft.html
* http://www.handango.com
* http://www.rimroad.com
* http://www.rimdev.com
* http://www.magmic.com

BB Messenger - available from www.blackberry.com/messenger/ - FREE
- AIM like chat program for blackberry users to PIN message each other. Very user friendly and excellent interface. Has made PIN messaging fun and friendly, not just a business communication tool for me.

BBLight - available from www.blackberrytools.sourceforge.net - FREE
- Keeps the light turned without having to be using the device and clicking around. .

Beryy 411 - available from www.rimroad.com - FREE
- This is a very slick program that allows your to type in a search word and find information based upon your location. I use when traveling to find a local Best Buy or good resteraunt. When you find the right location, click on directions and it gives you turn-by-turn directions from Map quest! SWEET.

Ramble - available from http://wireless.sra.com/ramble - FREE
- This is a free AIM client. It uses the info from your account set up via PC to log in and chat to other AIM users. The interface is good and it's easy to use. No support for MSN or yahoo like some of the others out there. Ramble is currently experiencing problems with AOL servers and is not working properly

Wisespent 3.0 - personal finance manager. www.wisespent.com
Keep clean accounts. Stay in touch with your money. Use Wisespent! Wisespent 3.0 lets you keep tracks of your expenses and revenues on your mobile phone. Create as many accounts as you want, Divide accounts by categories, Get an efficient overview of your project, View real-time balance of your account, Automatically insert recurring revenues and recurring expenses, Wisespent is simple top use, multicurrency and multilingual, Send manually or automatically (periodically) backups to your computer and more.

PocketDay - available from www.crossriversystem.com- $25 I think
- PocketDay is an all-in-one tool that allows you to see who has called or emailed. What appointments you have or tasks to complete. It halso has a ton of COOL extras. RSS feeds, Weather and stock information and world clocks. Totaly customizable and has a lot more to offer than I mentioned here.

Notifire - available from www.handago.com - $20
- This allows you to set different notifications for different people. v2 is comming out soon and will be a better program all around. The only program that I've seen to set distict rings for your contacts.

There are many more software applications out there. Instant message programs, games and business software are becoming more readily available for BB devices.

What program can't you live without?

Can someone please update the link to CrossRiverSystem,,, I am getting site not found.
Thanks in advance,

nutsnbolts · #10 11-15-2005 -

There corrected.
a. Corrected here.
b. Corrected faq.

Thanks for your observation!

dcfroe · #11 11-15-2005 -

I use the Eoffice fromk Dynoplex. Work very good for me. I mainly use it for excell spreadsheets. It is the only ap that I know of that you can actually work on the spreadsheet when on the road and then send it back to your main computer via desktop manager when you get back to the office.

twheeler · #12 11-15-2005 -

Thanks Nuts. Looks like I had a typo.

eternitybc · #13 11-17-2005 -

Does anyone know of a free spell checker for blackberry, that checks email messages? I know there are a couple trial offers, but I don't want to pay (for work use).

tweber78 · #14 11-20-2005 -

Has anyone tried Gmail Mobile yet? If so what are your thoughts?

twheeler · #15 11-20-2005 -

Quote:

Originally Posted by eternitybc

Does anyone know of a free spell checker for blackberry, that checks email messages? I know there are a couple trial offers, but I don't want to pay (for work use).

BB Corrector - available from www.blackberrytools.sourceforge.net/OverTheAir - FREE
- This is a spell checker for your BB. It requires quite a bit of set up (files to be hosted on a server), however there is an extremely kind BB users hosting a site for use.

In the setup for BBCorrector use this url:
http://www.rebreathertech.com:81/cgi...ctorServer.cgi

username: (leave this blank)
password: (leave this blank)

I have the disable MDS Proxy checked because I'm not on BES MDS.