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- Scientists Discover Cell phones do “Something” to Your Brain
- Auto Photo Uploader for Picasa is Painfully Simple but Useful
- MLB At Bat 11 App is Now Available for the 2011 Season
- One Developer Has 4300+ “Apps” in BlackBerry App World!
- How BlackBerry PlayBook App Code Signing Works
- Will RIM Make New Device Announcements at CTIA?
| Rewards Contest Reminder – Win a BlackBerry PlayBook! Posted: 25 Feb 2011 03:17 PM PST
Every comment, forum post, and tip submission you make on BerryReview during the month of February 2011 will be counted as an entry to win. That means every forum post or comment you contribute increases your chances of winning! (Spammy behavior will get your disqualified) You must be registered and logged in to BerryReview when leaving comments for them to be included in the contest and the winner will be chosen by the BerryReview staff in the beginning of March. You can check out all the details and official rules in the announcement post. If you have any questions comments leave a comment on that post. Start a New Forum Discussion Visit the forums If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 25, 2011, 6:17 pm. | Rewards Contest Reminder – Win a BlackBerry PlayBook! | Leave a comment |
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| Scientists Discover Cell phones do “Something” to Your Brain Posted: 25 Feb 2011 01:05 PM PST
Every few months a new study comes out that makes the whole cell phone to cancer research even more muddled. The latest study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and has a brilliant conclusion. They found that cell phones do something to the brain and increase activity by about 7 percent in the areas closer to the antenna in the 47 test subjects after 50 minutes of use. They did the test with the phones in both off and on (muted) to test what would happen with a PET scan. So kind of have some research to point that cell phones cause your brain to be more active. One of our readers, DavidB, had a funny take on this. For all we know the cell phones were causing the users to develop super powers in the area of your brain around the phone. Now if they only checked the participants telekinetic and ESP powers right after each test… Even the researchers admit that the fact that the brain is sensitive to the magnetic impulses from your cell phone does not mean it is harmful or causes cancer. Even they admit it could turn out to even have therapeutic effects like a previous study found.
All kidding aside the thing that really drives me nuts about all these studies is that they all come up inconclusive or contradictory. Even after 20+ years of research we still have no idea if there is any causal connection between cell phones and cancer and we are still looking. I really just hope we can put this case to bed in the next year or two so we no longer have people avoiding their cell phones "just to be safe" if there is no harm to it. If you are interested in the topic check out Cancer.Gov for some great Q&A on the correlating research between cell phones and cancer or lack thereof. via ABC News via CrunchGear If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 25, 2011, 4:05 pm. | Scientists Discover Cell phones do “Something” to Your Brain | Leave a comment |
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| Auto Photo Uploader for Picasa is Painfully Simple but Useful Posted: 25 Feb 2011 11:04 AM PST
Since RIM cancelled their Picasa app way back when I have always been looking for good solutions to integrate with Picasa. RIM has even cancelled their Flickr app so my thoughts of switching to that are also dead. Until now I have simply been emailing the photos to my Picasa account using Picasa's built in feature to do so but that is in no way ideal. That is why I am surprised it took a developer so long to create Auto Photo Uploader for Picasa. The app lets you set the email and secret key you get from Picasa in the settings. After that you can turn on the auto uploader and all future pictures will be uploaded (read: emailed) to Picasa. Once again its not an idea solution but for now it works for me. The $0.99 price is about right for the simplicity of the app. You can pick up Auto Photo Uploader for Picasa in App World at this link. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 25, 2011, 2:04 pm. | Auto Photo Uploader for Picasa is Painfully Simple but Useful | One comment |
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| MLB At Bat 11 App is Now Available for the 2011 Season Posted: 25 Feb 2011 09:03 AM PST
MLB just released an updated version of their app for the 2011 MLB season. Terry let us know that the new app is now available for purchase on App World for a pricey $14.99. The app does not include live video streaming of the games which kind of sucks but it does have live audio broadcasts to follow the sport from your BlackBerry. Most users would be just fine with one of the free sports news apps like Score but MLB at Bat offers some more features like:
The app does not have as many features until Opening Day on March 11 but you might as well get it now if you plan on picking it up later. Check out MLB at Bat 11 at this link in App World. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 25, 2011, 12:03 pm. | MLB At Bat 11 App is Now Available for the 2011 Season | 3 comments |
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| One Developer Has 4300+ “Apps” in BlackBerry App World! Posted: 25 Feb 2011 07:38 AM PST
Over the past few months I have seen more and more eBooks accepted into App World and I am not sure what to make of it. I just checked the Reference & eBooks section of App World is now the LARGEST category of "apps" in One developer, For-Side.com Co. Ltd., has 4358 "apps" in App World (vendor link seems to be from Tokyo). Keep in mind App World has 20,057 total "Apps" as of when this article was published. I would not mind if these apps were actually good but they seem like spam. From the selection I have checked most of the eBook "Apps" from For-Side look like out of print public domain eBooks that you can find on many websites free like Project Gutenberg. It gets even more annoying once you realize that many of these books are actually the same book split up into multiple "Apps." For example, we have Mark Twain's "Following the Equator" split up into 8 different apps. We also have eBooks like "A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics" both in one complete "app" and again split up into two parts. RIM is not the only App Store to have such a problem with spamware/crapware but for RIM 90% of it seems to be coming from one developer. At first I thought the "Apps" were mostly free but only about 130 of them are free. The remaining 4230 are all paid "Apps" with the most popular being An Unsocial Socialist for $2.99 which is public domain and free on Project Gutenberg. What I really wish RIM would do is create a free ePub, a free and open e-book standard, reader for BlackBerry that can simply download these works from Project Gutenberg. If not RIM they maybe they could simply help Keeper promote his free beta BePub ePub reader. It would be time better spent on RIM's part and could be more popular than the relatively unnecessary BlackBerry Radio app. So what do you think? Do eBooks have a place as separate apps in App World? How about charging money for Public Domain eBooks? Should one developer have more than four thousand apps? Let us know in the comments! PS: There are a few other sources for free eBooks online like Kobo, Amazon Kindle, and MobiPocket (now owned by Amazon) If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 25, 2011, 10:38 am. | One Developer Has 4300+ “Apps” in BlackBerry App World! | 12 comments |
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| How BlackBerry PlayBook App Code Signing Works Posted: 25 Feb 2011 07:02 AM PST
I have been going through the process of creating and submitting a PlayBook app to App World and one of the new steps is code signing BlackBerry PlayBook apps. RIM has been kind enough to post up the two processes involved in code signing and I thought I would share them with you. Once again it seems needlessly complicated like regular Java BlackBerry app code signing but once you understand the steps it seems a little easier. Here they are: There are two phases to the signing process: configuring your computer, and signing the application. You only need to configure your computer once. To configure your computer:
Once your development environment is configured, you're ready to sign your application:
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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 25, 2011, 10:02 am. | How BlackBerry PlayBook App Code Signing Works | Leave a comment |
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| Will RIM Make New Device Announcements at CTIA? Posted: 25 Feb 2011 05:48 AM PST
We have been waiting patiently for RIM to announce two pieces of information. First of all there is the obvious need to know exactly when the BlackBerry PlayBook will launch. Secondly RIM has been super quiet about what the next lineup of BlackBerry smartphones will look like. It has been ages since the BlackBerry Style launched and the BlackBerry Bold 9780 does not count. That makes me wonder. Will RIM make any major announcements at CTIA Wireless 2011 in Florida from March 22-24? They definitely need to let out when the PlayBook will launch sooner rather than later so hopefully we hear that before the 22nd. Still it makes me wonder if RIM will announce these new BlackBerry devices we have heard rumored like the Torch 2, BlackBerry Bold Touch, Curve, and others for both CDMA and GSM networks. The question is if RIM will wait until May for their BlackBerry World conference. Last year RIM did announce the BlackBerry Pearl 9100 and BlackBerry Bold 9650 at WES (which is now called BlackBerry World) but I am really hoping they do not wait that long. Current users are dying to know exactly when they will be getting updates since the BlackBerry lineup on many carriers, especially CDMA carriers, is getting really stale. What do you think? If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 25, 2011, 8:48 am. | Will RIM Make New Device Announcements at CTIA? | 6 comments |
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