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Screencast Review of Evernote notepad for the Blackberry

Kyith — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:59:15 +0000

Here is a good screencast review of how evernote’s functionality, how it looks like on the blackberry:

Exchange comes to Hotmail – How to setup exchange activesync on your smartphone

Kyith — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:05:41 +0000

I really don’t use Hotmail. I guess my only hotmail account is used for my MSN. But alot of my friends do and they will be happy they won’t need to be envious of their gmail counterpart who can set up Push Email (with their smartphone data plan) on their iPhone, iPod touch or Android, windows mobile phone.

Here are certain settings that you can try to set up yours

email: myemail@live.it
server address: m.hotmail.com
SSL enabled
username: {email address}@live.it
password: {your password}
Domain:

Let me know if it works

How to monitor radiation levels on your Blackberry: Tawkon

Kyith — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:18:08 +0000

My question here is that: Is handphone radiation a very serious problem?

Tawkon is fully-featured with some impressive tools at your disposal:

Predictive Mode allows you to preview your potential exposure prior to making a call, based on current conditions, such as your location on their “radiation zones” map. This is displayed to the user with easy to understand colour-coded signs, ie: green for minimal exposure to radiation.
Call Mode monitors your current conditions while in a call, providing intelligent solutions and feedback, such as engaging speaker-phone, or moving back to a previously “safer” location.
Statistics – The app also features a full set of statistical data tools, showing you how much radiation you have avoided by using the apps suggestions, accumulation of radiation, and radiation during the last call.

RIM, Windows mobile and Symbian still leads iPhone

Kyith — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:35:13 +0000

To all my friends who thinks that iPhone is overtaking the world, take a look at this worksheet:

Omni Group gets it: Productivity on the iPad

Kyith — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:16:14 +0000

The Omni group have a really nice group of apps going to help Mac users and make Mac a really good productivity platform.

9to5mac reports that in a survey by medical lynch-pin Epocrates [Free - iTunes link], up to 60% of doctors were at least considering an iPad:

9 percent want it now

13 percent want it this year

38 percent were interested and wanted more info

Mac developer Omni Group, which has dipped a toe into iPhone development with Omni Focus [$19.99 - iTunes link], has decided to port than entire portfolio of apps — OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, OmniPlan, OmniFocus, and OmniGraphSketcher — to iPad even if it delays development of the Mac version

News out is that they are likely to put their next releases on the Mac on the line so that they can port all their great Mac apps over to the iPad.

The iPad and Mac platform are great from the productivity point of view and its something that other platforms are trying to measure up.

Remember you can fight on many fronts in this tablet war: do you go for great reading experience? or great multimedia experience.

But the competitors need to know that there is a vast market for education applications and niche office productivity. if they failed to see this and tap onto this and let apple have their way then they are dead

Which is faster? Typing on an iPhone,Blackberry or Laptop

Kyith — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:53:18 +0000

Here is a good test that the author actually thought up when curiosity got the better of him which device input is he better on. The result is rather interesting. Perhaps i should do something like this on my own!

[Pen v Keyboard v Newton v Graffiti v Treo v iPhone >>]

Smartphone: Final Frontier for Lotus Notes

Kyith — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:42:35 +0000

IBM plans to release official Lotus Notes client for Android devices though an official timeline hasn’t been made available. The app will handle mail, calendar and contacts and will be designed to run on Android 2.0 and higher. The full details and specific features have yet to be finalized by the company.

Basically, it’s just IBM saying that they recognize Android as a platform viable enough to create an app for.

Speaking at their Lotusphere conference in Florida, IBM said the app will be called Lotus Notes Traveler and will be a free download. Of course, users will be required to have Lotus Domino server software. This marks the second major secure email client for Android behind Good Technology’s.

Source: ZDNet UK

How to optimize Blackberry battery life for WIFI

Kyith — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:56:43 +0000

Here’s a good tip from Crackberry. This software called SmartWifi does the handywork to help you save battery life of your blackberry phone by smartly turning off WIFI:

Saves battery by turning off WiFi when not needed.

Remembers the WiFi locations you use.

Up to 100 WiFi locations supported!

Powers WiFi back on when you are back at WiFi coverage.

Saves battery by avoiding to constantly check for available WiFi hotspots.

Displays useful information: BSSID, SSID, Data Rate, Radio Band & Signal Level.

Supported mobile devices: GSM / GPRS, CDMA and iDEN.

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EBook readers and Tablets are flooding CES Show

Kyith — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:05:19 +0000

This week on RSS feed world, gadgets take an important precedence snice CES is happening this week.

And just like i said previously, the iTablet news is spawning off alot of challengers for apples latest potential game changer.

We have the JooJoo and HP tablet slate to Lenovo’s Hybrid Ideapad. But not much have been said about the price.

As far as ebook readers are concern, if they are unable to reach 150 USD then alot of normal folks won’t bite. Lets hope throughout the year some of these folks hit that pricing range

How you can scan paper name card and add it to your Blackberry

Kyith — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:59:21 +0000

Nowadays i realise that one of the intangible annoyances is really passing business associates contacts around. That is why there was a prevalent movement to transfer info via iPhone or Windows Mobile Phone.

Another main annoyance is to input a name card you just gotten into your phone. Thank fully for Blackberry users they get software like Business Card Reader that lets you easily scan your business card and the technology behind will translate it to your contact list.

SHAPE Services has released a new application for those of you who hate inputting information from business cards manually. Business Card Reader is a scanning utility that simply lets you scan a business card and by making use of ABBYY’s text recognition technology allows for the extracted information to be added directly to your address book filling in all the appropriate fields. Having tested it on some business cards I have, I found it to be quite accurate in its rendering and identifying of information. Could be quite useful if you deal with business cards quite frequently.

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