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Flickr has released a new application to upload photos directly from your BlackBerry to your Flickr account.  If you have a BlackBerry with a camera, you can take photos and upload them directly to Flickr.  If you don’t have a camera on your BlackBerry, you still can upload any photo saved on your device.

 It is a free application and works as promised!  Check it out.

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BlackBerry Wallet, a free, over-the-air app, keeps credit card numbers and other personal information accessible and secure.  This little app is fairly powerful and features good integration with other BlackBerry applications.  It even keeps your affinity card and frequent shopper card numbers handy, so it could actually lighten your ‘real’ wallet.

From BlackBerry:

BlackBerry® Wallet has been designed to make shopping on your BlackBerry® smartphone faster and easier. It lets you use information securely stored on your BlackBerry smartphone to help fill in forms with credit card, reward program and shipping information.

 BlackBerry OTA Download Link

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If you travel much, this is one web-app I think you will find useful.  Simply forward your booking email confirmation (from any provider) to plans@tripit.com and let TripIt take things from there.  The system, which is free to use, will then automatically scour your itinerary for information and then build a portfolio of useful information for you.  Once you have your itinerary sent over, simply access all your information through the website m.tripit.com.  TripIt pulls information from many sources such as Google, NOAA, SeatGuru, Wikipedia, Eventful, Flickr, and OpenTable.  Pretty cool stuff. From TripIt:

TripIt turns chaos into order by making it easy for anyone to:    -Organize trip details into one master online itinerary — even if arrangements are booked at multiple travel sites    -Automatically include maps, directions and weather in their master itinerary    -Have the option to book restaurants, theatre tickets, activities and more right from within the online itinerary    -Safely access travel plans online, share them, check-in for flights, or print an itinerary      

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At first, this didn’t seem like the most natural fit (BlackBerry users tend to be businesspeople, not Facebook’s primary audience), but the application is pretty awesome for all BlackBerry-wielding Facebook users out there.

Facebook for BlackBerry has really tight integration with the BlackBerry operating system, so many of the features “fit right in” with the rest of the device.  For example, when you get a new notification sent to your BlackBerry (which is customizable) you get a notification icon on the top of the BlackBerry home screen, just like the current new voicemail or new message icons.  It shows a little “F” when you have a new message.  Great stuff.

You can even upload photos from the BlackBerry device’s memory straight to Facebook.

From BlackBerry’s site:

Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones

Hooked on Facebook®? Now you can take Facebook with you on your BlackBerry® smartphone wherever you go and stayed logged in as long as you want. Download this free application today and take connecting with your friends to a whole new level.

With Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones, you have wireless access to:

• Home screen notifications — so you know right away when you have a new Facebook event like a wall post, message or poke
• The full text of new messages or wall posts, new photo tags and friend requests. Plus send your own messages, wall posts, pokes and friend requests
• Your Facebook status and the Facebook status of your friends — change yours from the road!
• All of your Facebook contacts
• Photo-sharing — simply snap a picture with your BlackBerry smartphone’s camera*, then post it to Facebook with one click. Even tag friends in photos
• The Facebook environment you’re already familiar with, optimized for your BlackBerry smartphone

 BlackBerry OTA Download Link

Popularity: 71% [?]

I think people are now starting to not only take notice of mobile web browsers, but actually demand more from them.  This may be partly due to the iPhone and its commercials talking about “not just the mobile internet, but the actual internet.”

The new version of Opera Mini 4 does not disappoint.  This free over-the-air download adds many of the favorite features of the iPhone browser to the BlackBerry.

Now, you can take advantage of enhanced small screen rendering, a Virtual Mouse, and download/page loading speeds of up to 3 times faster than the built in browser.

From OperaMini.com:

Mini technology

Opera’s mobile software uses a remote server to pre-process web pages before sending them to your phone. Web content is compressed to reduce the size of data transfers, enabling fast browsing experience at low costs even on simpler phones.

More features from OperaMini.com after the break.

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Sorry for the older BlackBerry 7290 image, but it was what Google provided.  Also, this is now part of the Google Apps for BlackBerry/Google Mobile Updater.

Google Talk is pretty awesome.  The integration level between the BlackBerry itself and the application is superb.  It works much like BlackBerry Messenger, but even better!

From Google:

Google Talk for BlackBerry devices
Get Google Talk on your BlackBerry and chat with your friends on the go for free. You can even keep emailing and playing BrickBreaker while you chat.

Part of the Google Apps for BlackBerry

 BlackBerry OTA Link

Popularity: 59% [?]

I love GMail.  It is powerful, easy to use, and just works.  This is pretty much the same thing with the free GMail application for BlackBerry.  Once installed, you just log in with your Google Account or GMail address.  It will sync everything with your GMail account.

Be sure to check out how much fun the guy whose account is pictured to the left is having.  Suprise parties, sushi, BBQs and trips to Hawaii.  See, if you use GMail, your life will be better!

From Google:

New! Our new Gmail version is even faster and uses less data than before. You can also now sync your phone’s mail client inbox with IMAP.

Read and reply to emails - fast — Get your Gmail messages anytime, anywhere. Once installed on your mobile device, Gmail is only a click or two away. Your messages open nearly instantaneously.

View attachments — Open attachments you receive in messages, including photos, Microsoft Word™ documents, and PDF files.

Part of the Google Apps for BlackBerry Suite

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Popularity: 74% [?]

I started using the Google Notebook plugin for Firefox when it was launched some time ago.  It is really useful for grabbing little notes from sites as you wander the internet (or World Wide Web, for those of you still on CompuServe.)  I found the limitation to Google Notebook was that you had to be at your computer to use it.  This has been solved with the mobile version.

I like the ability to grab an address or some small bit of information and have access to it on my BlackBerry.  I have to imagine that Google will add a mobile launcher to the Google Apps for Mobile suite.

From Google:

Access your notes from anywhere. Shopping, standing in line, or waiting for the doctor? You can now view your notes from anywhere on your mobile device.

Enter notes on the go. Comparing prices for the holiday shopping? Need to add a restaurant you pass to your “Restaurants to Try” notebook? You can now quickly jot down a text note, and view it later on your mobile device or your home computer.

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This is what I have been waiting for since I got my first BlackBerry — the ability to sync your calendar remotely.  I realize that this feature has been around for many corporate users with the BlackBerry Exchange Server, but for us lowly BIS users, the view has been much more bleak.  Prior to this addition from Google, I would sync my BlackBerry calendar with my Apple iCal, and then have to set up iCal to sync with Google Calendar.  This was a not the most glamourous way to keep my appointments in order, for sure.

Google Sync  actually couldn’t work better.  You download the program as part of the Google Apps for Blackberry package and tell it how often to sync.  It will automatically sync your BlackBerry calendar with your Google Calendar (which has wonderful RSS capabilities to keep your desktop calendars up to date.)

One might imagine that the future for this program could hold wireless syncing between your BlackBerry contacts and GMail.

From Google:

Get calendar alerts - Using your BlackBerry® smartphone’s native calendar, you can now access your Google calendar even when you don’t have network coverage and be alerted for upcoming appointments with sound or vibration.

Always in sync - Your Google Calendar stays synchronized whether you access it from your computer or your phone. You can add or edit entries right on your BlackBerry® smartphone or on your Google Calendar on the web.

Once installed, simply click on the Google Sync icon (which looks like this):
Then, sign in to your Google Account or your Google Apps account, and that’s it. The Calendar application on your BlackBerry will always be synchronized with your Google Calendar. You can even edit events or create new ones on the handheld.

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Popularity: 59% [?]

This is the one program that I use on my BlackBerry 8800 most often (which is several times a day.)  This is pretty much a full version of Google Maps scaled down to your BlackBerry.  The best part is that it uses your integrated GPS receiver if you have one, making this an incredibly powerful tool.  Because of Google Maps for BlackBerry, I do not currently have a GPS in my car.  I can find where I am going just with this app.

This would be one of my “must have applications.”

From Google:

GPS, or Global Positioning System, is a feature on many mobile devices and peripherals. Google Maps for mobile combined with GPS provides a faster, easier way to access local information when you’re on the go. The BlackBerry® 8800 smartphone from Cingular™ is one of several new open GPS experiences with Google Maps (check out some of the others by clicking the arrows on the right). Here’s why we’re so worked up about GPS:

	Where am I? New! Google Maps with My Location. Learn more.
	Where’s the nearest… Cup of coffee, late night pizza or last-minute bouquet?
	Is there traffic up ahead? See it so you can avoid it.
	How do I get there from where I am? Type your destination and away you go.

Starting today, we have an answer: Google Maps for mobile with My Location . My Location is a new beta technology from Google that uses cell tower identification to provide you with approximate location information, so it will work on phones without GPS. Simply fire up Google Maps for mobile, press [0], and the map will indicate your approximate location by centering on a blue circle like this:
If you do have a GPS-enabled device, My Location can actually complement it. My Location kicks in faster than GPS in most cases, so you can access your location even faster on the map. It also works reliably indoors (unlike GPS) and doesn’t drain your phone battery at the rate that GPS does.

 BlackBerry OTA Link

Popularity: 49% [?]