Nerdy Cool Things I Have Done This Week

BlackBerry Curve

Just over a week ago, I upgraded from a BlackBerry Pearl to the Curve. So far, I’m in nerdy-gadget-lover heaven. I can’t seem to keep my eyes or my hands off of it. Some of the cooler things I have done with “Friday” (I name all of my gadgets) this week are, tethering him to my laptop (Smithers) as a modem, and installing WordPress for BlackBerry on him. I had a post almost done, telling about this, but a bug crashed it when I tried to add a link. That would have been my first post to this blog using Friday and WordPress for BlackBerry, but my first post using the app. was on my other blog, The Video Scribe.

This guy needs no introduction

I have also had a grand time using the FaceBook app for BlackBerry, which seems to run better on the Curve than the Pearl. The larger screen on the Curve allows more information before the need to scroll down. The FaceBook notifications never worked on the Pearl, which had to do with how I had things set up. With some tweaks to my message applications on the Curve, I now get FaceBook notifications pushed to my BlackBerry, allowing me to check them at all hours of the day or night, if I want to. Some intervention may be required.

TwitterBerry, which became “OpenBeak” recently, also looks and runs nicer on the Curve. As soon as this post is finished, I’m headed over to OpenBeak to upgrade TwitterBerry (which is a way cooler sounding name) and give it a test as well. Here’s a better description of OpenBeak.

“OpenBeak is mobile client for posting updates to Twitter. It works over the data network, so you don’t need to use SMS. OpenBeak is the evolution of TwitterBerry, and gives a name that allows the app to grow beyond both the Twitter platform and BlackBerry smartphones.”

So, that’s about it for the Geekend so far. I’ve managed to do a tiny bit of video work, and am headed back to that now. I confess, it is hard to stay on task while on CrackBerry.