Apps For Your CrackBerry

What are the latest and greatest apps to have on your BlackBerry? Below are just a few of the many new apps you can download specifically to BlackBerries.

NFL Game Center 2010

     The newest sports app, directly from the NFL, to have on your BlackBerry helps keep major football fans updated on their teams. I mean, what else do those major NFL die-hard fans live for during the football season? Of course this would be a must-have for any of those out there that live and breathe football and cheer for their team. Any fan is able to customize the app to their liking by having a "My Team" feature and it keeps you updated on that specific team(s) by sending you "My Team Alerts." You're able to get quarterly game audio highlights, any big in-game plays through audio, pre/post game conferences, stats, live scoreboards, play-by-plays, injuries, team rosters and more! What fan wouldn't appreciate this? It's a great way to keep updated in case you can't make it home to see your team play. For only $4.99 I would say that's very reasonable for how well the app keeps you updated on your favorite team.

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/18214?lang=en

System Dash

     While this app has been around for a few months and isn't exactly new to BlackBerry users it has recently been updated to be more compatible with the BlackBerry6. But overall, it's fairly new and everyone might not know about it and it's a fairly useful app to have if you like keeping track of certain features on your mobile phone. For those of you that like to have a memory booster and keep track of your battery levels (and have the device alert you to them) and overall just get more about your device in-depth it gives you a look into it and it's at a fairly cheap price too. The reviews have little to no complaints about the app and said it was easy to use and well worth the 5 or 6 dollars they paid (though the price has been dropped to 2 or 3 dollars).

http://software.crackberry.com/product.asp?deleteDevice=1&id=67489

Rdio

      For all the music lovers out there this is an application you will want to have on your BlackBerry. This is the newest music streaming service and it's available on both your mobile device and your desktop. You're able to add songs to your online collections and the coolest feature that has been stated in a review about this app is: "the ability to resume a song/album/playlist from where you left off last, when transitioning from desktop to mobile, or vice versa." (crackberry.com). The collection of music is very wide and you're able to get music without a cellular signal which is awesome! The app is only $4.99 and a good price for those that love to listen to a lot of music. It also comes with a free trial. But it might not be popular for people who already have Pandora and don't want to pay the money for this app.

http://www.rdio.com/

Evernote

     If you ever have trouble remembering multiple things at once (and let's face it..we all do) and if you don't have anything with you to take down notes with; take it with Evernote! The app for the BlackBerry that keeps you organized and synchronized in life. You can take snapshots, take notes, reminders and the list goes on. While it has been around and is a basic BlackBerry app for awhile it did receive a new update and now supports more systems (such as OS and 6). But it's such a helpful app to have simply for the fact that it keeps you organized and you are able to sync it with your desktop and you're able to search for whatever you're looking for through the BlackBerry. Like the link below says: "Evernote turns your BlackBerry® into an extension of your brain." (BlackBerry App World).

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/1700

BerryReader
     A basic BlackBerry app has been updated and recently named "BerryReader." It is a Google Reader app and you're able to read any news article (and more) you would want and the list of improvements to the app is huge. Within those improvements it includes: added e-mail, twitter, and facebook support, you're able to choose "hide/show feed" and more. What's also good about the app is that it stays connected to the Google Reader account and you can continue to read your story even if you don't have a network. 

http://software.crackberry.com/productMobile.asp?id=66853&section=

Any of these apps are available at the below website with reviews and information on every single one of these and many more! 
http://us.blackberry.com/apps-software/appworld/
Credit goes to this website:
http://crackberry.com/crack-team/software

A New Way to Protect Your Smartphone?

    Mobile technology is becoming more and more sophisticated as the years go on. Heck, every few months there is a new phone with brand new features or more sophisticated features than the last one and then people have to have these phones. So what is the latest and greatest feature for smartphones nowadays? A new feature as face and voice verification is now being tested at the University of Manchester and being tested on a new Nokia phone. How will this be helpful and useful to the public? Or is this just something that is completely unnecessary and something to hype up the technology being used in cellphones?
    As always the new technology that scientists come up with is to try and be beneficial to the public. Why else would you come up with a new feature, application or idea? The idea of facial and voice recognition technology is already in use with other types of technology out there in the world. It is used with laptops, the new Xbox Kinect, webcams and more. It is a great security feature to have on a phone because than if you lost your mobile phone noone would be able to hack into it (in theory because we always know there is going to be a person where if they try hard enough they can find a way to accomplish a task). But, anyway, the point is that this can be very beneficial and helpful to those that lose or misplace a phone. At the same time, how much more will you as a customer have to pay for this type of a feature on your smartphone? Is it really worth it? 
  How the feature works is that there is a camera used to scan your face and is able to identify where you are as in a location of the area. There has been preliminary research and tests on this kind of a feature. " 'Existing mobile face trackers give only an approximate position and scale of the face,' said Dr Phil Tresadern, lead researcher on the project. 'Our model runs in real-time and accurately tracks a number of landmarks on and around the face such as the eyes, nose, mouth and jaw line.' " (University of Manchester). Obviously, they want to expand the project and research and they have a plan for this because it has been 20 years in the making.
      The future plan for this feature being used in mobile technology becomes more complex than what already exists on pre-existing technologies such as the ones mentioned before (laptops, webcams, etc). "Eventually it will be able to tell who the user is, where they are looking and even how they are feeling." (University of Manchester). What they also want to do is also be able to eliminate the use of PIN numbers and passwords to have to log into features such as the internet and other applications that might require these things. It really is a great feature to apply to mobile phones because it can enhance the security of it so much and save people from having to remember several different passwords and then have to save said passwords into the phone where a person could easily find them on the phone and thus that person loses their privacy and security on their mobile phone. 

Photo Credit goes to this website:
http://www.itp.net/564263-alliance-sees-improved-cellphone-security-in-saudi

If you're interested in reading the article I'm going to post the link below:
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/10/26/new.software.brings.facial.recognition.technology.mobile.phones