BlackBerry App Roundup Jan 14

Howdy and welcome to the weekly app roundup! If there truly is ‘no rest for the wicked’, then Kevin must be one evil dude. No sooner than returning from CES, Kevin is off representing CrackBerry in Indonesia at the first ever BlackBerry Dev Con Asia. And here I am stressing about my daily commute…

Today, we announce the winners of the imgEdit 2.0 giveaway and also give you the chance to win one of 25 copies of Hypoxia Media Player! Have a rootin’ tootin’ weekend! Giddy up!

Freebies of the Week: Spend Smart Coupons, Forms, Cue

In Case You Missed It: Dipdive, SearchCalendar

New This Week: MyFriendTweeter, My Fashion for BlackBerry, SecureX

Cool at BlackBerry App World: MyLocker

Contest: Win one of 25 copies of Hypoxia Media Player!

Freebies Of The Week:

Spend Smart
Spend Smart Coupons - Spend Smart is an application that enables you to save money with grocery coupons directly from your BlackBerry smartphone. By partnering with grocery stores that have loyalty cards, we save coupons right to your card. All you have to do is use your loyalty card at checkout to receive the discount!

They currently work at over 4500 locations nationwide including; Safeway, Kroger, Ralphs, Vons, Smiths, Frys, ShopRite, Randalls, Dominicks, and Giant Eagle. Over 20 more are supported! Download and register to see the stores available in your area. They are currently lacking coverage in FL, MN, WI, OK, IA, and upper New England including MA, but they’re adding stores all the time.

Free from BlackBerry App World

Forms

Forms - Enable your team to collect structured data quickly and easily on their BlackBerry devices. Design forms on our web-based designer, push them to your team, and route their responses through to a wide range of connectors. The questions you place in your forms support a range of data types and can include validation constraints (prevent the form from being submitted) and be conditionally visible on the flow of answers already provided.

The app supports offline form completion (no network connectivity available), and saving of partially completed forms for returning to at a later time. It makes full use of BlackBerry Push, so doesn't drain your battery polling our server, and the BIS transport (when available) so you don't incur extra data costs.

On the server, received forms can be submitted through a range of connectors, including:

  • email
  • SMS
  • inserted into a Google Spreadsheet
  • stored in Amazon S3
  • routed to any HTTP REST endpoint

The server API also supports pushing pre-populated forms to specific members of your team, as a 'oneshot' work item for them to complete.

Free from BlackBerry App World

Cue

Cue - Simple Reminders. Cue will alert you of your reminders even when all alerts are off.  A tone will play, your phone will vibrate and your reminder will be displayed.  Cue is extremely simple to use. Use Cue to remind yourself to turn your ringer and alerts back on, an important event, or anything you'd like to be reminded of.  Simply select the reminder date and time and enter your reminder text.  Cue automatically starts up with your device and runs in background.

Cue is a simple, easy to use, basic reminder app.

Free from BlackBerry App World

In Case You Missed It:

dipdive

Dipdive - Dipdive is a Lifestyle Engine for Music, Arts, Action & More.  In addition to flagship artists, such as the Black Eyed Peas, Dipdive is home to variety of creative content and social causes.  Check out DailyDips, a daily program covering Comedy, Music, Fashion, Sports and Film. Be the first to hear about exclusive Dipdive events, like Dipdive Nights!

You'll find out about the latest content first: videos, pictures, news and blogs.  Dipdive Channel Owners have BlackBerry handhelds too, so don’t be surprised if you start to see some exclusive and behind-the-scenes uploads. Staying connected with your Dipdive friends is even easier with our mobile app - get messages and notifications of what they are doing.  Update your own profile: write a blog, upload pictures or videos straight from the app. Get your friends to do the same and instantly share your experiences from clubs, concerts, art exhibits, social events or anywhere else you happen to be.

  • Get instant notifications when your favorite Channels and Friends upload new content to Dipdive
  • View videos, pictures, news, and blogs
  • Upload pictures, videos, audio, and blogs to your profile
  • Update your profile status and profile picture
  • Send & receive messages and friend requests

Free from BlackBerry App World

searchcalendar

SearchCalendar - Can't find your boss birthday? Wasting time to scroll over all events in the past year? SearchCalendar offers easy way to get all Calendar events under control. With the many search options you can easily filter and locate the desired event. You can start SearchCalendar by clicking its icon or if you select menu "Search..." in the regular Calendar.

New in version 1.1

  • Search extended for all phone calendars
  • Fixed issue "'Nothing found' message when searching after exact event name"

Features:

  • Integrated in Calendar menu
  • Search in: Subject, Location or Note
  • Limit search to: All-Day events, Repeatable events or Events starting after given date
  • Open selected event in: Daily Calendar view, Weekly Calendar view or Monthly Calendar view

$2.99 from the CrackBerry App Store

New This Week:

MyFriendTweeter

MyFriendTweeter - Advanced friend finder for Twitter. Use a biographical description of your interests to locate new friends. Full English language support during search. Just supply an English worded text of your interests and who you are. The program will iteratively search Twitter for users that best match your interests. Far more accurate than other search technology. MyFriendTweeter is an open-ended search engine which continuously scours Twitter for new possible candidate matches. All found friend results can be uploaded to a Twitter account and added to the "following" list.

On sale for $7.99 from the CrackBerry App Store

My Fashion

My Fashion - If you are among those people who would like to look good all the time and if you very cautious about your style, then My Style is just the application you need. People are use to spending a lot of money on clothes and accessories before even knowing if they appeal to others, but My Style can change that for you. My Style gives you the ability to take a picture of the items, and using the items you can form an outfit you are planning to wear. You can share the outfit on Facebook or Email it to you friend so that you know what others think of it before you actually spend money on it.

You can view items, outfits, and accessories, and then form the outfits with those so that you don’t miss out on any combination that you might not have tried before and of course you can get your friend’s opinion before you actually wear it.

$2.99 from the CrackBerry App Store

SecureX

SecureX - Do your friends, co-workers and family always use your BlackBerry without asking you first? Do you have sensitive data or applications that you do not want others to see or open? If you answer yes, then you need SecureX. SecureX allows you to assign applications to the protected list. Anyone trying to open the protected app will need a password to open it. Without the valid password the application will not open.

You can also enable global protection for 3rd party and or system applications. This will protect all apps from launching. If you do not want this then add custom apps to the protected list. SecureX DOES NOT save your password anywhere on your BlackBerry. It only stores the hash of your password for authentication. Due to the design with SecureX the Camera and Video application are not protected.

Features:

  • Selective application protection
  • Protect all 3rd party applications
  • Protect all System applications
  • Password is NEVER saved
  • Custom wallpaper for the password screen
  • Password is required to modify application protection and preference settings
  • Easy to use
  • Protect after battery pulls

$1.99 from the CrackBerry App Store

Cool In BlackBerry App World:

myLocker

myLocker - A replacement for password-storage programs to securely store your passwords, web logins and credit/debit card like information. Specify your own labels, categories, and search your passwords interactively. myLocker provides you different set of predefined templates for you to use for storing passwords. It includes Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo Mail, Orkut, Twitter, Skype, Visa/Master card, etc. myLocker uses SQLite to store your data and uses AES algorithm to store your confidential data.

Free from BlackBerry App World

Contest:

Hypoxia

Hypoxia Media player - Hypoxia is a full featured media player for BlackBerry Smartphones. For the first time on a BlackBerry Smartphone, you can now stream supported audio, and video* to and from your home wifi network! Hypoxia not only plays music and videos* from your network over wifi, but it's also a Media Server capable of streaming to supported devices like Xbox360, Windows Media Player, another BlackBerry or even an Android phone!

Twitter: Integrated Twitter support, to instantly share what you're watching, or listening to!

Full Skinning System: With Hypoxia's Skinning capabilities, you can change nearly every aspect of the look and feel of Hypoxia. Create your own, or choose a pre-made skin to suite your own personal tastes.

*Video Streaming: Torch 9800, Bold 9700 owners can now enjoy the added feature of Streaming Video from the network. (More phones added upon availability).

*To run Hypoxia as a Media Server the Mblware Network Assistant software is needed, refer to your receipt for a link, or visit our website.

Features:

  • Wifi Streaming - Stream media to and from supported devices over wifi
  • Full Skinning System - Change nearly every aspect of Hypoxia's look and feel with downloadable Skins.
  • Twitter Integration - Share what you're listening to, or watching with Hypoxia in real-time on Twitter!
  • Message Notifications - Quickly preview incoming SMS, Email, and PIN notifications right inside Hypoxia.
  • Now Playing Playlist - Add songs, or video to the Current playing playlist
  • Album Artwork - Hypoxia will automatically display all Album Art from your songs' ID3 tag.
  • Audio and Video Playback - Support to playback audio and video media files in Full Screen, and Player modes.
  • Hypoxia PicShows - Create a custom slideshow of pictures, backed with your favourite audio tracks.
  • Keyboard Shortcuts - Many keyboard shortcuts to quickly change to Full-screen, Now Playing and more ...
  • Bluetooth Support - Stream your favourite songs to a connected Bluetooth device.

Regular price is $7.99, currently on sale for $3.99 at the CrackBerry App Store

We have 25 copies of Hypoxia to give away! All you have to do is leave a comment to be entered. Winners will be announced next week. Now, for the 25 winners of Hypoxia.

Contest Winners:

leontam
bradfordjohnson
chelys
1raygin
Jean-luc_Picard
sheldonbk
bahandi
Stides
Suefnp
Draconianfire
ShenTeK
lilhvn4me
pennyhorse
Inspector_Gadget
Magex47
MsBrittz1016
fchteam
mpatchez
ridesno159
mamaquatro
triquetra
depnerg
barbieguzman
alantan
lklim

*Congrats to everyone! You should receive a message this week, so watch out for it!*

Until Next Week..

Well there you have it folks! I hope you enjoyed the apps we managed to corral this week. If you have any information on software (including news and tips), or if you are developer looking to be in the spotlight (or contest) let me know via email at [email protected] or on Twitter at twitter.com/ryanblundell.

Of course, we also have many more New BlackBerry Apps, Updated BlackBerry Apps and Free BlackBerry Apps available at ShopCrackBerry.com. Be sure to visit our software store for more great deals on BlackBerry Applications!

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