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My Impressions of the BlackBerry PlayBook

For those of you who don’t follow me on twitter, RIM gave everybody who went to their New York launch party on Thursday got a free PlayBook.  I’ve now been playing with it for a few days now, I’m ready to share my impressions.  There have been a whole lot of reviews that came out [...]

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App Review – My-Cast Weather

My-Cast is a weather app often overlooked, and underestimated.   It is but one application in a line of mobile weather apps from Digital Cyclone (a Garmin subsidiary) which includes weather apps designed specifically for Pilots and Fisherman.  My-Cast is available through BlackBerry App World or from your carrier’s web site if your carrier offers it as a subscription service.  [...]

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Is the PlayBook Coming to Verizon?

Looks like Verizon Wireless will also be carrying the PlayBook.  SkatterTech got a tip about PlayBookWithoutLimits.com, which had a registration page for enterprise customers to sign up for a beta program.  The registration is now closed, but the site is still up.  There is a page that lists the PlayBook’s specs, but makes no mention of [...]

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Announcing the New ‘Review an App, Get an App’ Program

Do you have an app that you love and want to share it with the world?  I want to help you!  Starting today, I am announcing a new “Review an App, Get an App” program.  Basically, if you want to review an app on BerryManiacs.com, I will pay you the current value of the app.  [...]

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Review: Home to Phone Sends Links to your BB Browser (and back!)

A few weeks ago, Android got a new application called ChromeToPhone that let people send links from their Chrome browser to their handheld device and back.  Recently, Epic Applications came out with an app called Home to Phone that does the same thing for BlackBerry, but with more features. As you can see in the [...]

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Review: GymTechnik NextGen (Giveaway)

Today is the first in my series of apps that I use on a regular basis and we’re starting off with GymTechnik NextGen BlackBerry fitness app.  Last November, I started going to my local gym, and I have been using GymTechnik the whole time. The backbone of GymTechnik is their website.  Here, you can update [...]

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A few words on App Reviews

One of the things that I want to do here is review applications from the perspective of a Storm-user, so here are my personal guidelines for reviewing apps.  I have a few apps that I use daily that I’ll be writing reviews of this week (provided my real job doesn’t get in the way).  Once [...]

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