Stinsonddog’s Must
Have Applications for Your Blackberry
1.
Google Maps and Berry411 no matter what
you do.
2.
A Data Safe
Program - pick one from my review here.
3.
TodoMatrix or
IdeaMatrix or both from my review here.
4. bbSpell if you need a spell checker as seen here.
5. A GPS Program - pick one from my review here.
6. Newsclip if you need an RSS reader as seen here.
7. BBWeather
is a great weather application from the
Weather Channel. You can configure
and use shortcuts for different locations based on zip codes. You have a choice of colors and the
numbers of days forecast. You can
toggle the current conditions and the forecast with the space bar. In a recent update by Tateu from the forums, you can now use Alt-space to refresh
the weather report and the locations are sorted alphabetically, not by when you
entered them. You can set the
refresh times also. You can see BB Weather Screen Shots.
8. Quick
Compose for full QWERTY keyboards
allows one hotkey access ("C" key) to immediately composing a blank
new email message. Requires BlackBerry OS 4.1 or later. This works on themes that do not install
applications to a sub-menu. I use
the Wave theme and it works great.
It won't work on the Cingular theme. To type an email from the home screen to
Stinson (assuming I am in your address book), you would type "C"Sti and it would look me up. Before this you had to type an
"M" too. Before the 8700,
many BB's had a Compose icon on the home screen.
9. Quick
Note for full QWERTY keyboards allows one hotkey access ("Q" key)
to immediately jotting down notes that is automatically copied to the
clipboard. You can now adjust the font for this application. Requires BlackBerry OS 3.6 or
later. Push the Num key and the
trackwheel to paste that information elsewhere. Read more about these here.
10.
Jiveslide is a great app that allows you to view your Yahoo or Flickr photos in a slideshow format.
