Monthly Archives: August 2008

Flickr for your Blackberry

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flickr is like the ultimate photo and video sharing website for the social world. What would be better than taking a photo from your blackberry and posting it instantly to your flickr page? This is very possible and there are multiple ways to do this. For me I like to use the blackberry flickr application to upload photos and use the email process to push video. Yes that’s right, the blackberry videos can be sent and displayed on your flickr page.

The BB flickr application is pretty straight forward and very simple. You can download it from here. Once you are logged in to flickr through your phone you have the ability to send photos directly from the BB camera application or from the flickr application. The flickr app then lets you add a title, description, tags, add it to a photo set, set the privacy, resize the image, and if your carrier enables the GPS,  geotag your photo. Once you have added your necessary information click on the upload button and your photo is transmitted in the background to flickr. This is great because it doesn’t halt your phone when transmitting the photo. Below are some samples that I took and posted to flickr from my BB Curve.

You can also upload video through the email address provided in your flickr settings page. You can post your photos this way to but I recommend the BB applicaiton.   Once you have captured your video on your phone just email it to that flickr email address (located in your flickr settings) and it will be automatically uploaded to your page. Here is an example video that I shot and posted via email.

Some tips and tricks to keep in mind. Use the flickr app to upload photos and the email to upload video. In your settings you can set tags so when you send a video through email it tags it with what you want. Then you don’t have to worry about your photos being tagged with video tags. Also I think it’s a good idea to set up a photo set to capture all your mobile uploads. Doing it this way will be easier to sort though the photos when you are looking for something. Lastly, it’s best to add the flickr email address to you address book so that you don’t have to keep typing it in all the time.

Using your blackberry and Flickr can be very powerful so go out and capture the world!

This is part of a series “Ten days of Blackberry, Making your Phone Better“

Facebook for your Blackberry

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Facebook is like the crack of social media apps for some people and what would you do if you couldn’t access your facebook profile and update your status when you are away from your computer.  No need to work addicts.  Facebook indeed has a pretty good blackberry application.  Some phones even come preinstalled with it.  I know my Verizon phone did.  With the facebook app you have access to update your status and view status updates of your friends, share a photo that you took, get a list of your friends, invite new friends, poking, the ability to write on a friends wall, and sending messages.  The application is by far the prettiest one out there.  It’s almost better than going to the actual facebook site becuase you don’t see all that other junk such as the super wall and other 3rd party apps.  One down side is that when you want to look at someones profile is that it opens the mobile browser it load it. The browser layout is a bit messy and sometimes is pretty slow.

Overall this is a good application for facebook users.  I find myself updating my status and posting more photos because of this.  If you are interested, you can download the application from the blackberry site but check your phone, It may already be installed.

This is part of a series “Ten days of Blackberry, Making your Phone Better“

Drinking Geeks

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This is what happens when Geeks get ahold of beer and talk about BarCampDC.

Justin, John and I went to check out a venue for BarCampDC and then headed over to Pizzeria Paradiso and had some food and some double ipa’s.  Well Justin and I did..John had some of the fine DC water.  More info should be coming soon on BarCampDC 2.

Twitter for your Blackberry

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The web 2.0 world is all about social media so why not take that type of media and move it to your phone?  One of the most widely used social media tools is a web application called Twitter.   It was made for SMS messaging (140 Characters) to let people know what you are doing.  In short you follow friends and other people follow you.  It’s pretty cool just go check out twitter.com if you don’t know what I am talking about.

Twitterberry is by far one of the best blackberry twitter application out.  With Twitterberry you can update your status, see public and friend’s timeline, get replies to your messages, and send and view direct messages.  The interface is very easy to use and is simple and clean.  The best feature in Twitterberry is that it doesn’t use SMS so there is no need for a text messaging plan.  All messages are sent and received using your data plan so it is recommended that you purchase an unlimited data plan from your carrier.

On the other hand there are some drawbacks to Twitterberry.  When viewing your friend’s timeline it can take a bit of time for their tweets to display, hardly a major drawback but it is one to think about.  This may also vary based on your carriers signal strength.  One feature that I would love is for the timeline to update every couple of minutes and then when ever a reply or direct message is received you can set a notification so that you don’t have to keep refreshing.  This wouldn’t be hard feature request since the application already runs in the background.  Also, I noticed that you are unable to follow new users from your phone.  You will either have to go to the m.twitter.com or will have to follow them when you get home.  Pretty much you can only get tweets from people that you have already subscribed to.

Overall this is the best twitter application out there for the blackberry.  If you use twitter then you need to go download this app.

This is part of a series “Ten days of Blackberry, Making your Phone Better“

Berkeley Trained

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This is pretty funny.  I love how Michelle Malkin just keeps walking.  These are typical Democrat tactics.  I mean look at this, conservatives can’t even walk down the street.

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