CES was full of new innovating ideas & we happen to miss one of them luckily the guys over at www.ohgizmo.com found it and recorded a video. I always wanted a phone that would charge over the air but that is probably far from happening, the closest you get is this RCA Airnergy Charger which [...] If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:WiFi Hero – Controls WiFi Based On Location & Status Rumor: Free WiFi calling for T-mobile users? WiFi Cafe Spots Stores Database of Free WiFi on Your BlackBerry WMM Power Save Can Improve BlackBerry WiFi/UMA Battery Life? Claim Of 15-40% Longer Battery Life Google Maps Now Finds "My Location" With WiFi

Tashanna let us know about this curiosity inspiring article by Raphael Satter at the AP. Turns out that one British church has just started blessing cellphones on the traditional “Plow Monday” ceremony. The tradition used to be for farming implements but Rev Canon David Parrott decided to update the tradition this year to something [...] If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:RANT! Why Is Developing For BlackBerry Such A Pain? BlackBerry Thunder Coming October 8th? MySpace for Blackberry upgraded BlackBerry App World v1.0.0.28 Released: No Change Log Sprint Finally Pushing Out BlackBerry Tour OS 4.7.1.57

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One of my favorite announcements during CES was Powermat’s future plans. They are planning on releasing custom batteries in April called Powerpak that have the Powermat technology built in. That means you wont need the annoying cover/case for wireless charging since it will be built into the $39 battery. Powermat is also planning on [...] If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:Gadget of the Week: Powermat Wireless Charging Pad PowerPak – Wall Charger With Built in Battery Review: WildCharge Wireless Charging Pad WildCharge – Wireless Charging For Pearl & Curve Review: WildCharger – Wireless Charging Unit For BlackBerry

We here at BerryReview just wanted to congratulate both readers William and Rob on their giveaway wins the other week. We really love when we get to do these giveaways, as we hope you guys do to. William and Rob, hope you guys love the headsets! If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:Holiday [...] If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:Holiday Giveaway: Plantronics Voyager PRO Bluetooth Headset Giveaway Winners: BlackBerry Resolution Prizes From Electric Pocket! Giveaway Winners – Addonis All-In-One Utility Giveaway Winners: eWallet from Ilium Software Holiday Giveaway: Plantronics Discovery 975 Bluetooth Headset

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In a brief break from Hermes-related Maemo work, I was inspired by Manfred Weiss' MyMenu to create an auto-organising menu application for the N900: Catorise organises the application menu to have top-levels corresponding to the sections in Application Manager. Features: Uses the section icons from the current theme, falling back to the default theme if none available. Determines an application's section from the same information the packager used when uploading it to Extras. Keeps track of application installs/uninstalls. Entirely non-destructive: remove the package and everything goes back to how it was before. "All" and "Other" sections, just as in the App Manager, to provide additional access routes. So, with Catorise the section you find an application's icon is the same you used to install it! It is currently in Extras-devel. This should, therefore, only be tested by people who are willing to suffer potential data loss, hair loss and the eating of babies. It's largely feature complete, however there are some known problems/future developments: Applications installed from Ovi will go into the "Other" section, due to the way Ovi on Maemo has been designed. I've some thoughts on how to work around this, though. Changing the theme will only update the icons on the next application install/removal. A quick GUI editor could be created to manipulate /opt/catorise/menu which is a simple text file cache to speed-up rebuilding. This would allow the user to shuffle the apps to best suit their use cases. 2010-01-12 22:52 UTC with score 8

Happy new year!We opened Ovi Store beta today for Maemo 5, i.e. for N900. Go and check it out! More here.I made a trip during the new year. And I used my N900 to take a lot of pictures. There are at least two advantages in N900 over a conventional camera:1) The sharp high resolution screen makes it possible to really edit pictures with the device. I think somebody should build or port a good image editing software for Maemo 5. The screen would make it really useful. But even with the in-build editing capabilities you can do nice stuff.2) I can upload the images directly to my Flickr, Facebook, Ovi and other accounts. And make my friends jealous ... By the way, there is a nice N900 group @ Flickr...and now, back to work! 2010-01-12 15:54 UTC with score 7

Well, I finaly got my hands on a N900 (given as a Christmas gift by Collabora to Gabriel).  This gave me the occasion to observe first hand that the Ovi Maps, while having a lot of features, is slow and that the Hildon Emerillon port is less than perfect.  It is hard to use with fingers and feels alien to the platform. To solve this, I created Map Buddy: a map application specifically designed for Maemo 5.  It is quite simple to use and works out of the box (no configuration or selection of plug-ins required!).  It also has something other apps don’t: it uses web-services to provide business search capabilities. Here’s the use case I built Map Buddy upon: you just arrived in Montréal and want to find a sushi restaurant. You start Map Buddy, it will be centred on the place you closed Map Buddy on.  You can click on the “Center on me” icon on the bottom left, and it will centre the map on Montréal ‒ remember you are in Montréal for this example! By the way, your position is marked by a blue dot. Later version will display the precision too. To search for businesses, you have to switch in business search mode, tap on the magnifying glass to do so. Enter sushi in the search bar and press enter! The map will be populated with markers representing the places tagged with sushi (powered by Praized Media, a Montréal start-up). To get the name of the place, tap once on the marker. To get the complete details about a place, tap once on the name: a new window will be opened with the business’ address, phone number and web site if available.  Map Buddy even provides a call button! To clear the search results, tap on the trash can in the search bar or do a new search. It’s that simple! Map Buddy includes a place search so that if you are looking for Pizza in New York, you don’t have to scroll from San Francisco to New York to get there.  Select the Place search mode, enter New York in the search field and press enter.  A picker dialog will be opened to let you select the correct New York. To switch to other maps, click on the layer icon, it will bring up the list of possible maps to display. I hope you like it!  Try it today! WARNING: Installing Map Buddy in this early stage requires adding the extras-devel repository which might install unstable software on your device.  Try it at your own risk or if you are a professional NB: Praized Media only has strong data sets for Canada and United States.  They plan to sign business partnerships to get data for Europe in 2010.  In the mean time, you can directly add businesses using this form. NB: Help is appreciated to translate it! 2010-01-12 20:24 UTC with score 7

Yesterday I finally uploaded the changes I had locally committed in my git clone of SeriesFinale and send them also for building in the extras repository of Maemo. The 0.3 version has the following changes: Added extra information to tree views While you can enter the list of episodes and check what’s the next you need to watch, it is boring to need to navigate so much just to check this, so I added some extra information to the shows and seasons views. Basically now you’ll readily know how many seasons you have in a show, how many episodes you are left to watch, what’s the next one to go and which seasons/shows are completely watched. SeriesFinale 0.3 seasons view Added configuration file handling and episodes order recall Paco Zafra, a SeriesFinale user, asked for the app to remember his episodes’ sorting preferences and with this version it will start doing so. Hope you like it Paco. This also means it now stores an XML file with these preferences and will do it for other future preferences added to the program. i18n: With this release I also added support for internationalization and included the Portuguese translation already. You can contribute to SeriesFinale by sending me a .po file translated in your language. SeriesFinale 0.3 in Portuguese Apart from the changes above, several code improvements were made. The update should be arriving at you N900 any time soon. Hope you like it! 2010-01-13 08:57 UTC with score 5