Monthly Archives: January 2009

Doomtree is Coming to D.C. [finally!]

I love hip hop; but I generally lean towards rap from the 80′s & early 90′s and the more indie hip hop groups like Heiruspecs, P.O.S. (also performing with Doomtree) and Panacea. I like some artists of today like Outkast, The Roots, Ludacris, Jay-Z, Common, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, but most certainly cannot get with…

31 Days of BlackBerry App Love – DAY 31

Day 31: Slydial – $FREE (ad supported) – paid plans available Let’s just start this post by admitting the fact, sometimes we need to call people back, but really don’t want to talk to them. We just need to be able to say “I called you back, but I got your voicemail”. Well, guess what???…

31 Days of BlackBerry App Love – DAY 30

Day 30: Blackbird – $FREE Blackbird is another Twitter client for BlackBerry devices [and you thought only Twitterberry existed]. Blackbird doesn’t look to have all the fancy bells and whistles like Twitterberry, but I’ve heard some people say they like it better and it gets the job done. To install Blackbird, visit http://dossy.org/twitter/blackbird/. Tweet

31 Days of BlackBerry App Love – DAY 29

Day 29: Slacker Radio – $FREE If you’ve been looking for a way to listen to streaming music on your BlacBerry; look no further. Slacker Radio has over 100 stations that have been programmed by music experts. They even give you the ability to create your own station right from your BlackBerry. If you have…

31 Days of BlackBerry App Love – DAY 28

Day 28: ReadyWords – $FREE Trial -$14.95 Full Version ReadyWords seems like the perfect little app to help you send out general text messages without having to type it all out. I can see some use for this. They have over 150 ready to use phrases such as: Do you want to meet for lunch?…

31 Days of BlackBerry App Love – DAY 27

Day 27: TwitterBerry – $FREE TwitterBerry is a mobile Twitter app for BlackBerry and it is absolutely fa-bu-lous. I’ve talked about TwitterBerry on my blog before, but there are some new BlackBerry owners who are first time visitors on my blog and may not have looked deep enough to find that past blog post. So I am…

31 Days of BlackBerry App Love – DAY 26

Day 26: MediaPOP – $FREE Trial – $19.99 Full Version MediaPOP sounds pretty awesome. With MediaPOP, you can download audio and video email attachments. This is something I’ve been wanting to do.  I’m definitely going to use the trial to see how well this works [or not]. Here’s a glance at what MediaPOP can do:…

31 Days of BlackBerry App Love – DAY 25

Day 25: Newsgator Go! – $FREE I use NetNewsWire as my RSS aggregator on my MacBook Pro and it’s a pretty awesome tool. Although I don’t read a lot of blog posts and whatnot on my BlackBerry on a regular basis, I do occasionally partake in reading a post here and there from my BlackBerry…

31 Days of BlackBerry App Love – DAY 24

Day 24: eBuddy – $FREE eBuddy is a multi-protocol chat client. It works with MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk, ICQ, MySpace and AIM (AOL) and coming soon – Facebook! This app sounds great! It sure beats having these IM clients loaded separately on your BlackBerry and having to login to each one of them while toggling back…

No Doubt is BACK!!!

Press release taken from http://www.nodoubt.com/news/default.aspx?nid=20198 No Doubt Announces 2009 Summer Tour FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 21, 2009 No Doubt Announces 2009 Summer Tour With Special Guest Paramore The Sounds, Janelle Monae and Bedouin Soundclash To Support on Select Dates LOS ANGELES, CA – Grammy-winning rock band No Doubt announced plans for their 2009 summer tour…

31 Days of BlackBerry App Love – DAY 23

Day 23: Vlingo – $FREE Vlingo looks to be like a great addition to the line-up of BlackBerry apps. I installed it and am currently setting it up for use. It does look promising though. Vlingo is a voice-powered user interface that unlocks access to mobile phone wireless data services. vlingo for iPhone™ and vlingo…

31 Days of BlackBerry App Love – DAY 22

Day 22: CaptureIt – $FREE Have you ever wanted to take a screenshot of something on your BlackBerry directly from your BlackBerry? Me too and until a few weeks ago, I had no idea there was an app which allowed me to do so. You can take a screenshot directly from your BlackBerry and save…

31 Days of BlackBerry App Love – DAY 21

Day 21: Atomichelix Notify! – $FREE I love this app for the BlackBerry. There are so many times where I need to make a notation from an email at a later date or research something. Instead of copying the entire email, starting a new memo and pasting the email in that memo; you can simply…

31 Days of BlackBerry App Love – DAY 20

Day 20: WorldMate Live – $FREE WorldMate Live is the perfect companion for the frequent traveler. It manages your travel itinerary for you. You simply forward your flight, hotel and car rental reservation confirmations to WorldMate Live and your itinerary is automatically created and synced with your worldmatelive.com account and your BlackBerry. In addition, you…

31 Days of BlackBerry App Love – DAY 19

Day 19: Loopt – $FREE Loopt is a really cool app to keep you connected to your friends while on the go. I used this app when I had my 8800 and found it to be a fun app and it’s cool posting where you are and having a Loopt friend ding you to say…