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Compete with the best! Vancouver 2010!

Feb 22, 2010 Games Leave a comment

We’ve been watching the world’s best winter athletes compete for the past week and a half, now’s your chance to show them who’s boss.
Vancouver 2010is the couch potato’s answer to those hard working men and women competing in Vancouver this year.

See if you have what it takes to be crowned champion in five exciting sport events! Are you fast enough for speed skating? Can you conquer the freestyle moguls? Will you survive cross-country skiing? Tackle each of them separately or compete in all five together to become the ultimate winner. If you’re looking for a healthier dose of competition, play with up to five friends in the multiplayer mode. Catch the fever and join the world’s most electrifying competition: the Vancouver 2010™ — Official Mobile Game!!

You can get
Vancouver 2010for only $6.99 @ bPlay and show the world what your made of!

SiriusXM Radio hits the Blackberry. For realz!

Feb 12, 2010 Apps, Technology Leave a comment

I’ve been an XM Radio subscriber since some time in 2004. My wife and I each have one in our car, I have one in the house and I have the online subscription as well. I thought it rocked when Sirius and XM merged and I was able to get radio margaritaville on the radio. I was a little sad when they released the SiriusXM app for the iPhone as I’m a solid blackberry user, but I don’t have to worry any more.

Forget about the XM app that comes with your phone. It requires an additional subscription (even if you already have XM online) and it doesn’t have all the channels. Instead, hit SiriusXM.com/Blackberry on your device (or even in a browser) to download their app. Don’t worry if you don’t have an account, there’s a free trial avaliable, though the service is pretty cheap with SiriusXM Plans starting around $4.99 a month for the first three months (you save up to $15 that way!) It’s nice to be able to set the radio on one station and leave it there the entire road trip, and now I have it where ever I go!

A theme for your love!

Feb 12, 2010 Devices, Themes Leave a comment

Just in time for Valentines Day I thought we’d share a simple little V Day theme from a new designer with our readers. The Valentines Day theme by tiaralynn is available for the 8330, 8500, 8900, 9700, but it may work on other devices as well.

Its a pretty simple pink theme that you can grab OTA from her site:

Enjoy and happy VD!

Saints Superbowl XLIV Champions Theme for the Storm

Feb 9, 2010 Storm, Themes Leave a comment

“WHO DAT?!?” Thats right, Sunday night the Saints rolled over the Colts in an exciting end to the 2009 football season. What better way to celebrate then by showing your love for the first time champions with this AWESOME Sliding Door theme on your Blackberry Storm?

This theme has updated sliding doors and updated home screen to reflect the Super Bowl Champions. The operation of the sliding doors is explained at DigitalPaintShop. So what are you waiting for? Hit DPS today and download the Saints Superbowl Champion Theme OTA!

More Savings from Handango! Get 25% off today and tomorrow!

Feb 9, 2010 Apps, Deals, Games Leave a comment

It seems like lately, all I do is post about some amazing deals from Handango, and here, just in time for Valentines Day is another good one. Today and Tomorrow you can get 25% off ANY app at Handango for you or your love. All you have to do is use the code 25THANKS. Thats right. Any App, for Any Phone. 25% off!!

You can pick up the latest copy of “MasterDoc – Picture Perfect Document Viewer” or the latest version of Tether for Blackberry so you can always stay connected with your laptop. Head over to Handango today and find that perfect app for your loved one!

BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) Best Practices: Six Tips

Feb 4, 2010 Tips & Tricks Leave a comment

I came across this little doozy of gem online on the CIO website. Al Sacco covers six good tips about using the BBM on your device that you might not have considered. Perhaps my favorite is the “Do not abuse the broadcast message feature”.

I was surprised to see the part about not broadcasting your PIN on public forums like twitter and FB, as thats a common way to hook up with your friends, but he does have a good point. Its all about keeping the spam down (much like you don’t post your full email address in public either). Anyway, take a look at the Post and let me know if you have anything you’d like to add to the list.

How to turn off message that your message was forwarded by besadmin

Feb 1, 2010 Technology, Tips & Tricks Leave a comment

The service account used by BES is known as BESAdmin. BESAdmin required Send As permissions on all of the mailboxes within the organization. Once these permissions are setup; service account can forward emails to the devices as if the email was sent by the original sender. There is a complex algorithm in the form of MDS, Mailbox agents and so on runs in background which takes care of it fine.

Since Exchange Server 2007 started grabbing production environments people started implementing BES along with it too. I have always been observing an issue with most of the people that they complain, when they send a meeting request to someone using their BB handheld they are notified that their message was forwarded by BESAdmin or whatever is the name of their BES Service account. This notification looks like:

Your meeting was forwarded

besadmin has forwarded your meeting request to additional recipients.

Meeting

M

Meeting Time

Monday, March 30, 2009 3:00 PM-4:00 PM.

Recipients

‘someone@domain.com’

This is not a non delivery report or an error report either. This is just a notification like other MDNs in Exchange Server 2007.

To resolve this issue. You simply need to disable the forwarded meeting notification on the service account. In my environment I call it, BESAdmin. So here you go with the commandlet.
Get-MailboxCalendarSettings –Identity “BESAdmin” | Select RemoveForwardedMeetingNotifications
Ideally, above command should return the status of the RemoveForwardedMeetingNotifications as $False

Now, you have to set it to true. Run the following cmdlet.
Set-MailboxCalendarSettings –Identity “BESAdmin” -RemoveForwardedMeetingNotifications $True
And that should be it. It should stop all those forwarded meeting notifications.

LAST DAY for exclusive savings–save 25% today!

Jan 21, 2010 Deals Leave a comment

Thats right! Today is the last day for up to 25% off of your favorite apps at Handango. What do you need to do? Its easy. Visit Handango for the apps you want, add them all to your cart and when you check out use the coupon code EXCLUSIVE25. Get 25% off. If it were any easier, a preschooler could do it. So what are you waiting for? Hit Handango today to get Tether for Blackberry, BBAlerts or anything else at 25% off!

FREE BlackBerry Bold 9700 for New or current customers!

Jan 15, 2010 Berry, Carriers, Deals, Devices Leave a comment

Wirefly is at it again with an AMAZING deal on one of the best devices that Rim has put out yet. FREE Blackberry Bold 9700 for new or current customers on AT&T plus, FREE shipping and FREE activation. Its insane, but thats almost a $500 savings (as opposed to just walking in and buying one in the store).

You get one of the fastest 3G phones for nothing. nada. zip. So what are you waiting for? I would have ordered one already myself, but I already have the bold, I may however, upgrade my wife’s 9000….

Personalize your Blackberry case!

Jan 5, 2010 Accessories Leave a comment

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Pexagon Technology. All opinions are 100% mine.

Iphone-plastic-az I’m always on the look out for a good way to protect my blackberry. I had an otterbox case on my last one and it server well (too well infact, I went through two cases!). I’ve looked at cases from Casemate, I’ve looked at otterbox, I’ve checked out the cheap cases I can get at wal-mart or target. None of them have made a big impression on me. Yet. Enter Pexagon.

Pexagon wants to make my device a little more personal by adding a bit of personality to it for a mere $5. Yea. Five Bucks. BlackBerry cases come in the silicone design for most popular models! The backside of the case can be engraved with BOTH a logo and two lines of text. Again, let us repeat … you can engrave a logo for ONE piece … AND engrave text. Absolutely no setup charge and no order minimums. Order one case, engrave a logo, engrave your name and have it shipped for $5!

Thats a pretty good deal and one thats hard to beat anywhere else. You can get personalized Apple & BlackBerry cases with your name and school logo or your company name and logo.

You can get cases for the following BlackBerry Smartphones: