Your Personalized Blackberry Barcode

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RIM just announced few days ago, that it will bring up some changes to Blackberry Messenger. They want to make sure you have the latest Blackberry Messenger, which is 5.0.0.57 to enjoy this. The first change is, now you can personalize your Blackberry Messenger Barcode via Facebook app.

Go to this link Barcode Generator and login to your Facebook account to personalize your Blackberry Barcode. It will ask you to enter your Blackberry PIN then you can choose the number of themes. Afterwards you have an option to put the new personalized barcode in your Facebook Profile, or send it to your email. If you choose to put in your Facebook Profile, you can pick your Blackberry Device :)

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Opera Mini 5 Out of Beta

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After months in Beta now you can download the stable version of Opera Mini 5, just go to m.opera.com from your phone and give it a try. It comes with a tabbed browsing though I find this to be useful but very heavy in my memory. I experience a bit lagging in my storm. This browser also gives an option to open in Blackberry browser or Opera every time you open a link.

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Capture Your Blackberry Screen

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Capturing what your Blackberry is displaying is required sometimes. It can be for review you write in your blog, show your highest score in game, or capture an issue with your Blackberry and share it with your community. There are number of ways to accomplish this,

1. JL_Cmder (Java Loader Commander)
A command tool provided by Blackberry to display information about your handheld, event log of your handheld, take a screenshot of your Blackberry screen, erase the Blackberry OS and restore to factory settings. You need to install this into your computer and connect your Blackberry in order to use this.

Pre-requisite: Blackberry Desktop Manager

2. BBSAK (BlackBerry Swiss-Army Knife)
This program is developed by the team at RIMGeeks. This tool provides more functions then JL_Cmder and with a GUI. Connect your Blackberry in order to capture your Blackberry screen and save it into your computer

Pre-requisite: .Net Framework 2.0

3. CaptureIt
This app runs in your Blackberry so this app can be very handy when you are far from your computer.
After installing,  you will see a new option "Capture It" in your Blackberry menu. The screenshot is automatically saved in your the "Pictures" folder.

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Edit Before Reply/Forward

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The limitation to edit your email before replying or forwarding to add comments or correct some misspelling is annoying and that exactly what happens when you reply/forward with Blackberry. Worry further not because now there is a small app that can help you to edit email in your inbox before replying/forwarding, it's called "Forward, Reply and Edit". This  small app will give you the ability to edit before replying/forwarding. You can download this small app in the following link Forward, Reply and Edit

After install, you will need to send an email to anyone in order to activate the app. Afterwards you can go to your email and press the Blackberry menu to choose Forward & Edit or Reply & Edit or Reply All & Edit

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Seesmic: Twitter Blackberry App

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After I received information from a mailing list about another twitter application; Seesmic. I directly download it and test it in my Storm. First impression, the application gives a very clean UI and it loads the timeline very fast. Seesmic Twitter app is only 225.7KB so it is easy in your memory

With less tweaking in options and no support for multi-accounts yet, this is a good alternative to Ubertwitter. 

Give it a try, just go to www.seesmic.com from your Blackberry.

Happy try.

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Blackberry Gemini 8520 get an official update 4.6.1.320

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A new official OS for Blackberry Gemini 8520 just come out and this time, it is released by Fido carrier. You can grab it here
Blackberry Gemini 8520 Official Update 4.6.1.320

Remember:  Don't forget to backup your Blackberry before the update. Delete the vendor file if you come from different carrier

Good luck :)

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Review Storm Official OS 5.0.0.451

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After days of testing the new official OS for my Storm, the 5.0.0.451, I will say this is the best OS so far in terms of memory drain. The memory drain is very little, The first time, I don't need to use "QuickPull" for the whole 24 hours. Even in the next morning, I will still have like 14MB of free memory.
All this is with my normal usage, BBM, Yahoo Messenger, Browser, 1 active Mailing List around 300+ emails per day, and 1 quite active personal email.

Battery life, I don't see much improvements comparing to the previous OS 5.0.0.425. I don't see any noticeable major improvements while using it. If you know, please tell me.

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