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Essential Travel Apps
If youre looking to travel like a pro, WorldMate Live is the way to go. With a slew of positive reviews, WorldMate Live has been classified as one of the most essential travel apps available. With WorldMate, travelers can store and reference their entire travel itinerary. From reserving limos to monitoring airline schedules, WorldMate can guide you effortlessly through your trip.
TripCase for BlackBerry was recently named the Best Travel App by Business Week magazine. Similar to WorldMate, TripCase also uses your itinerary (which you can input manually or import from one of TripCases travel partners) as a reference, and it will notify you of any changes to your flight, including security wait times, gate changes and baggage claim locations. TripCase also has a TripLog feature that allows users to share their thoughts and photos with friends and family members.
If youre wondering where the nearest coffee shops, theaters or bars are located, Poynt will lead you there. Publicized as one of the most popular travel apps, Poynt uses its GPS capabilities, allowing users to locate nearby restaurants, bars, coffee shops and more. With Poynt, users can choose from three types of searches: yellow pages, contacts and a special category for finding nearby theaters and movie venues. If you find yourself in unfamiliar territory, this application can really come in handy.
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The home key on the left and the back key on the right. Next to the home key are two keys for SIM1 and SIM2 calling. Also, next to the back key is the call end/power key. The QWERTY keypad is rather contented to use in spite of the tiny keys. It comes with 1.3 megapixel camera, video recording, FM receiver and also included features such as Nimbuzz, Snaptu, opera mini etc.
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General Information about the farm
Blackberry Farm is a living history museum that is situated on 54 acres. It includes a lake, ponds and a stream. The grounds also contain an arboretum with more than 200 variety of trees, flowers , and historical agricultural gardens.
Blackberry Farm has 5 museums including a Carriage House, The Farm Museum, The Early Streets Museum, and The Huntoon House. These contain a facsincating array of 19th century artifcats that were used in every aspect of life back then.
You can also engage in many period craft demonstrations including blacksmithing, spinning, weaving, sewing, and pottery. You will also be able to visit a one room school house, an Aurora home that dates back to the 1840's.
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For all you Twitter addicts out there in San Francisco with Android 2.1 or above, which leaves out some of you, including Motorola Devour and Motorola Backflip owners. Bummer.
From the official Twitter blog:
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - – Canada's Research in Motion, maker of the Blackberry, knocked Motorola off the list of the world's top five mobile phone manufacturers in the first quarter of 2010, industry tracker IDC said Friday.
RIM entered the list of top five vendors for the first time on worldwide sales of 10.6 million units in the first three months of the year, placing it in a tie for fourth with Sony Ericsson, IDC said.
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Fingerprinting technology from Aruba automatically detects latency-sensitive application traffic and adjusts QoS and other parameters to ensure reliable and timely delivery - a feat that microcell and single channel Wi-Fi architectures can't match, the company said.
Aruba's portfolio of campus, branch/teleworker, and mobile solutions simplifies operations and secure access to all corporate applications and services – regardless of the user's device, location, or network.
Aruba's fingerprinting technology identifies latency-sensitive voice application traffic, and then conditions the Wi-Fi network to deliver it constantly without compromising accuracy.
“The network must deliver continuous coverage, hand-off signals as users roam, maintain quality of service, and help optimize battery life,” Peter Cellarius (News - Alert), Aruba's vice president of Business Development, said.
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"We invite you to open your eyes to the real actions of what your child or employee does on your BlackBerry device," Retina-X chief executive James Johns said in a release.
"What if they are being dishonest or worse? The advantages of knowing the answers are far better than not knowing at all."
The previous version of Mobile Spy software kept track of text messaging and telephone calls, providing online access to data by employers, parents or whoever else is paying for smartphone accounts.
New Mobile Spy 4.0 software also provides employers or parents with smartphone contacts, calendar events, memos and records of which mobile phone towers a device was within range range of, according to Retina-X.
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Just like the Twitter app for BlackBerry, Twitter for Android is as good as you can get from a mobile version of Twitter. The app lets you easily share any link or photo and of course reading tweets is a pleasant experience especially if you are using an Android phone with a larger screen, such as the Nexus One.
What's good about Twitter for Android is that it also lets you add a homescreen widget so that you can easily access your public timeline or view a tweet location on a map. It will also lets you see your friend's latest tweets in your phonebook, Google Talk list or any application that uses Android's QuickContact bar.
Another cool feature is the “dynamic” Twitter topics that pop-outs on the main page of the app. This trending topic is updated in real-time and I would have to say that the Twitter folks have done something cool with their Twitter app for Android. This kind of set the app from its other iteration (specifically for BlackBerry devices)
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I primarily tested it out with my iPhone and used the Bluetooth connection since for some reason the Symphony didn't like my WiFi connection consistently.
Set-up was easy, but when I lifted the speakers out of the box, the flimsy plastic iPod doc cover flew off. As I maneuvered through the different connection settings, I kept having to check the manual because I kept forgetting that blue stood for Bluetooth, green for WiFi, yellow for the docked iPod and so on.
I'm used to carrying my phone or iPod in my pocket, but the slim remote got lost as I strolled around the apartment, and the speaker set doesn't have accompanying buttons. When I plug headphones or computer speakers into my iPhone, I can adjust the volume on the device. Why can't the Symphony do the same?
Turns out that the company does offer a MusicNAO iPhone application, but using it prevented me from using other music apps like Pandora at the same time. (To be fair, that's more of the iPhone's fault, since it has limited multitasking abilities, for now.) The app also only worked for the WiFi connection, so I with my Bluetooth connection was out of luck.
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