Facebook 1.5 for BlackBerry devices is now available. New features include:
- Receive instant notifications on your BlackBerry smartphones home screen.
- Send/receive message or wall posts, pokes and friend requests.
- Update your status, view and comment on your friends’ status.
- Share photos from your BlackBerry smartphone with tags/comments and post to Facebook with just one click.
- Connect your Facebook friends with your BlackBerry Address Book – including profile picture integration which brings a whole new meaning to caller ID.
- Stay on top of your life with birthday reminders and event integration into your BlackBerry Calendar.
One of my favorite new features is Facebook contant integration with your BlackBerry contacts. When the application matches a BlackBerry contact to a Facebook contact, it will keep their picture current on your BlackBerry!
You can get Facebook 1.5 OTA directly from RIM at http://www.blackberry.com/facebook
Source: http://snipurl.com/gg3no (Gizmodo)
In some circles it is the holy grail of the BlackBerry. Countless hours have been wasted in bathrooms, airports, buses, subways, etc. by people all over the world playing the game of BrickBreaker. I myself, have fallen victim to all that is BlackBerry BrickBreaker. That being said, I am here to tell you that BrickBreaker is not all that it is cracked up to be.
I find the game more frustrating than anything. My largest compliant is that if a data transfer occurs while playing, it seems to bog the game down. Now that in it of itself is bad enough. To further compound the problem, when this happens the ball jumps randomly around the screen! I’ve even seen the ball go directly through bricks without breaking them. WTF? Also, there appears to be a magic space where the corners of two bricks meet. I can’t tell you how many times the ball has “slipped” through this little hole. Fuck you ball!
Lastly, the paddle. Oh, how I hate you paddle. I depend on the WHOLE paddle to play the game. Apparently the programmers did not intend for this. You see, sometimes the ball goes right thorough those curved corners. To make matters worse, sometimes the ball goes through the whole damn paddle. The paddle can go to hell! Now should the paddle be still when the ball hits it, the ball may just decide to speed up after bouncing off the paddle for no apparent reason. Who the fuck programmed this piece of shit?
Couple all of this with the fact that sometimes when I try to feather the paddle, it goes the complete opposite direction of the trackball! Now, I do attribute this more to sketchiness in the trackball than I do to the programming of BrickBreaker. Nonetheless, it is infuriating!
BrickBreaker is useful for one thing: instilling within me the strong desire to throw my beloved BlackBerry at the wall. You won’t win BrickBreaker! I’ll thwort you yet!
TwitterBerry 0.8 was released to the masses last night. Below is the list of updates from 0.6-0.8.
- TwitterBerry 0.8
- New look on the post screen
- TwitterBerry 0.7
- Smarter network detection support
- BES connection support, due to popular request!
- Picture support through www.TwitPic.com.
- Refresh timelines from current timeline screen
- Configurable auto-updating of timelines
- Longer list of tweets: 200 instead of 20
- Reply to tweets and direct messages
- Send Direct Messages and view your Direct Message inbox
- New network indicator dialogs
- Configuration options moved into the BlackBerry Options screen
- New shortcuts on all list screens: ‘r’ to reply, and ‘d’ to send a direct message
- Favorite and Delete tweets from any timeline
- Allow overflow of 140 characters when typing your tweet
- Optimize the menu screens so the most commonly used choices are easy to access
- URLs in tweets can be selected and opened in your BlackBerry Browser
- User customizable default application entry screen
- Many other small bug fixes and usability enhancements
Link to TwitterBerry
The newest version of the Facebook for BlackBerry devices application makes the pesky “IS” optional in the status update. You can get it here directly from your BlackBerry.
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*Image courtesy of CrackBerry.com
