While Twitter has released it's location API it has not fully integrated it into it's site just yet. So as a developer if you are annotating tweets from your app with locations it may not be easy to tell if its working. The simple solution is to look...
I came across this "life-saver" helper class, it helps auto detect the appropriate connection type to use when making connections using the blackberry networking classes. I've spent a ton of time debugging issues in applications and this class really has...
BBTrackr 0.93 was just released, highlights of this release are:
Much improved GPS support (automatic retries, error handling and improved GPS fix logic).
Confirmed success on Blackberry Bold (on AT&T) and Blackberry Curve (T-Mobile).
Option to...
Just released version 0.81 of BBTrackr. It now has a Settings screen that allows you to set the intervals at which OpenCell updates occur as well as FireEagle updates. It also allows you to turn on AutoStart for both features (this just turns the...
After releasing BBTrackr yesterday it became apparent that it didn't work on all phones. Basically the issue was that it did not work on CDMA phones (Verizon and Sprint in the US). A new version has been releases that does 'work' on CDMA...
I've made a simple application call BBTrackr. It is currently in beta.
The application has two main features:
1) It uses both your phones GPS (or GPS Puck) as well as cell phone data to contribute to OpenCellID.org. The OpenCellID project...
Beyond Search is Suggestion
In our previous posts we discussed how the lack of personalization and lack of incentives for a review to be honest and fair, reduced the value of local search reviews by themselves. At theSUGGESTR.com we've decided to use a...