some personal, more technical – by Thomas Einwaller
Yesterday I installed StatusNet as our internal microblogging system at troii. I was very happy to see that it works very well with the tools I already use for my twitter account: ÜberTwitter on my BlackBerry and twhirl under Windows. Configuring ÜberTwitter with our StatusNet installation was very simple, I just had to select MDS as [...]
In: Blackberry
21 Dec 2009After giving up hope just the day before I was surprised on Friday when the local shop of my mobile carrier called me and told me that the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 was available. I packed my things together, drove down to the city and grabbed it. Now here it is lying right next to [...]
Yesterday a friend of mine told me that he received an error message while trying to install the BlackBerry Desktop Manager 5.0.1 under Windows 7 64 Bit. I told him that the Desktop Manager installed and runs correctly on my system (which is the same) so we tried to find out what caused his problem. [...]
I am using the Facebook application on my BlackBerry Bold now for a long time … I think since the first version came out. Lately I upgraded to version 1.6 and I noticed that suddenly some of the features that were new in version 1.5 did not work anymore. I was not able to sync [...]
I am using Windows for most of my daily work, currently Windows Vista and I a quite happy with it. Although currently I am mainly developing Java (web) applications which could be done on Mac OS or Linux too there are some reasons for that. The biggest one is that I using (loving) BlackBerry devices [...]
Today I decided to make a complete backup of all the applications currently installed on my BlackBerry. I just bought Sid Meier’s Pirates! for BlackBerry from Concrete Software. This game is the greatest game I ever played on a mobile device so far and at the same the the best remake of an old classic [...]
In: Blackberry|Mobile|Software
3 Jan 2009I wrote my first twitter update nearly two years ago but within the last six months the frequency of my updates increased a lot. This is mainly because I found some useful BlackBerry clients for Twitter. The first one I tried was TwitterBerry from Orangatame. TwitterBerry is a plain client that allows to do everything [...]