Nav4All for Blackberry updated to 9.0

Blackberry users and globe trotters…Nav4All has just…and I mean just been updated to 9.0.  So what comes in the latest update?  So far from what I’ve been told accuracy when searching addresses seems to have been improved as well as now integrating with Google Maps and Blackberry Maps.  So far that’s all I’ve got right now as my Blackberry contact is bunking up for the night and the features mentioned above is all he good gather from the comfort of his house.  Anyone else out there get the new update yet?  If not head to Nav4all.com from you BB browser and let me know what’s new.

Thanks Yase!

More Blackberry Application Storefront info revealed

Since Apple knocked one out of the park with their Apple App Store, it seems like daily more and more people are jumping in on the app store bandwagon and trying to get a slice of the app store pie.  One of the big 3 players in the digital world (Apple, Android, and Blackberry) of application stores is RIM.  Many people are looking forward to RIM’s foray into the more consumer oriented arena.  Today, more details of RIM’s Application Storefront have been published.  Good/Bad?  You’ll just have to keep reading…

Research paper highlights why ISP level filtering/monitering worthless

Since the RIAA has more or less dropped the individual lawsuits against poor single moms and 13 year old little girls they have turned their attention to a new body…ISP’s themselves.  They figure why don’t we just go straight to the transmission source.  Well right off the bat, anyone with half a clue on how filtering technology works knows it doesn’t work very well and more often than not, the normal law abiding invdividual is the one who gets shafted while the real hardcore file sharers easily get around it.  But then again this is the RIAA, not exactly the brightest crayons in the box if you know what I mean.  Boing Boing’s Report has been getting many links to a research paper written by Andrew A. Adams from the University of Reading and Ian Brown from the Oxford Internet Institute that lists out logically and systematically why this new upper level filtering initiative is completely worthless and a waste of time for everyone involved.  It highlights how the rights holders and big wigs at the various media labels won’t get any richer.  All they will accomplish is turning more people to illegal filesharing while simultaneously creating an even more negative image to the public.  If you don’t feel like a whole lot of heavy reading come inside for a few short exerpts to get a quick grasp of their arguements, or for the full read head on over to SSRN.

iPhone Modem 2 lets you use iPhone as wireless modem

In what could be see as a devistating monetary loss for the Apple App Store by rejecting iPhone Modem 2, will surely prove to be a huge success on Cydia.  If you haven’t jailbroken your iPhone I highly advise you to try it at least once and see all of the amazing things you can do with your iPhone and all of the things you are missing out on.  If you happen to jailbreak, check out a sweet app called iPhone Modem 2 on Cydia and being taking your internet with you where ever you go for any device.  The steps to set up you iPhone as a wireless modem is easy.  (1) Jailbreak your iPhone (google it) (2) Download iPhone Modem 2 from Cydia (3) Install “helper app” to allow your computer and iPhone Modem 2 converse happily (4) Setup your network and hit “connect”. (5) Get to the settings on your iPhone go to the WiFi area and click on iPhone Modem and you’re set!

The first network that is created is given the default name of “iPhoneModem” and is open*read: no password*.  In all reality, it is more than likely AT&T who has told Apple a big fat NO to any app like this being available on the app store.  Regardless, it’s so easy a baby could do it *cavemen are off today*.
Source: Mactropolis

Chicago land residents get slick new Chicago Transit website

If you are fortunate enough to live in the great city of Chicago, take the bus, and have an iPhone, we have a treat for you.  Seems the transit authority in Chicago cares about the more technologically advanced bus riders and has either themselves or through the help of some other party created an iPhone optimized CTA bus tracker site.  *You could and still can use the original bus tracker site, however the iPhone one just fits and flows so much nicer.*  One simply awesome feature is that you never again have to look at a scheduled bus time and wonder where it’s at and if it is going to actually be on time.  The iPhone optimized CTA bus tracker allows you to map via Google Maps the closest bus to your location!  This is just one feature of the iPhone site but opens the door for many other unique features.  Another feature they could add in the future would be the ability to pay the bus tolls on the iPhone site.  Again, so many possibilities not just for the iPhone bus tracker web site but for many other areas as well.  Live in Chicago and try the web site out yet?  Let us know how it works below!

Source: iPhone, Therefor iBlog

ATI’s HD 4570 GPU coming to a Dell Studio near you

If you were a big graphics card company, wouldn’t you love it if one of your clients spilled the beans on one of your latest and greatest products before you had a chance to?  I doubt so.  But apparently Dell just doesn’t care or are careless as a page on Dell’s support website shows the 15″ laptop will soon ship with an unreleased ATI HD 4570 GPU.  On the support site you can see a support driver for the 4570 and a support driver for the current GMA 4500MHD processor.  What’s interesting is it is listed as coming inside of a Studio 1555.  Another unreleased notebook.  Dell is just dropping all sorts of secrets today.

The benefits of ATI’s latest 4500 series GPU’s include 80 stream units, full Direct x 10.1/Open GL 2 support, hardware based movie decoding as well as some general GPU calculations support.  Power saving features come hard coded inside the 4500 series to save battery life when you need it most.

Source: Electronistsa

VZW finally loosens their grip…GPS support comes to Google Maps!

For quite a while now, well since pretty much the begining of time, Verizon has kept the internal GPS off limits to 3rd party applications such as Google Maps, instead reserving it for their over priced *and completely crappy* VZ Navigator carrier branded GPS application, (I’ve used it, I have room to talk).  According to Crackberry, readers from all over are writing in telling tales of Google Maps 3.0.2 and the internal GPS are now working in harmoney.  Other smart phone users with GPS don’t get too excited yet.  It appears that the Storm is the only phone on Verizon to currently benefit from the loosened grip.  Is this a sign of things to come?  Let’s hope.  For the procrastinators out there, point your mobile browser to google.com/gmm and start enjoying what real GPS on google maps feels like!

Source: Crackberry