Internet Speed II

My Internet Speed increased a while back. Can't complain about that.

A Bit Late, but Happy Halloween.

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Hopefully I'll find this to be funny and not look into taking legal action against myself for using a photo of me that I took myself. (somewhat of an inside joke)

Quick Thoughts on CellSpin

I guess a pro of CellSpin would be that it is nice that the photos, videos, and recordings are hosted at CellSpin and not uploaded to Blogger taking up Picasa room, which I pretty much have full.

Cons

You can't edit posts made via Blogger, CellSpin, etc. from the mobile app. You basically have to go to blogger and/or CellSpin for this depending on the post and how you want to handle it. I haven't gotten very far, but at first glance it looks like editing CellSpin posts via the browser gives the option of appending, but not necessarily editing the actual posts. I'll have to play around with that one a bit.

You might be able to do something on the camera side, but it would be nice to have some control on how the picture displays when posted. Currently being cut off on the right side a bit as they display.

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I still need to try the recordings too.

Any other comparable free tools that anyone likes for blogging via the BlackBerry (Curve 8330)?

Enough CellSpin for tonight

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Mobile Blogging

Just playing with CellSpin. Right off not sure if it is much better than simply e-mailing a post. It would be nice to be able to edit posts that are already on blogger using CellSpin.

Xdrive Closed

I had not realized that the Xdrive had closed.

BlackBerry Outlook Web Access (OWA) Setup with BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS)

I struggled with this one for a while. My old Instinct would allow me to get Exchange mail to the Sprint Mail Client on the Instinct via OWA credentials. Of course, it did not originally work when I got the Instinct. It was not until they came out with an update to the mail client, but once they did that it worked slick. Now trying to get my BlackBerry Curve 8330 setup to do the same thing was initially frustrating as well. Attempting a number of different things and then finally broke down and called Sprint. They basically said that it was not possible without getting with the Exchange team at work. I didn't have to do that before. It sounded as though it would only work with BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), but I only had BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), as it is a personal phone, etc.

Anyway after much searching I found the document that I needed to get it done. It was a BlackBerry KnowledgeBase document. KB03133 to be exact. I had read posts telling you to find the CN name, post telling you to find out your mailbox name and use it, etc. Well it was this KB document that gave me what I needed. I had all of the info, except for what truly needed to go into the mailbox name field. It may not be as difficult for many, but as my work e-mail account has changed many times, I think that made it a bit more difficult. The big point of the KB is to login to your e-mail account via OWA and then hover over the Inbox or one of the other items in the navbar area and look at the lower left hand corner of your browser. What you need for your mailbox name is what displays in the address bar after the last slash in the address and before the pound (#) sign. My cn name was firstname_first-initial-of-lastname, my mailbox showed lastname, firstname. It was here when looking at the address that it showed something different than all of the Outlook configuration information. It showed firstname_lastname, which was different than it displayed anywhere else (so use what is shows for you, not just firstname_lastname as mine happened to show). My e-mail address is firstname.lastname@company.xxx. So once I had this little tidbit to put in, bingo, I was able to receive my e-mail from Exchange. No BES, no additional cost (I already have an unlimited data plan), no additional software on my PC desktop, etc. Of course, this only gets you the mail from that point forward, it does not download what is already in the box. It also does not pick up the Calendar info as the Instinct mail client did. This can evidently be done via BES, but I can live with just getting my mail, at least for now.

Any Mobile Anytime

That is cool. With my Sprint "Everything Data Plan" I can now call Any Mobile Anytime, without incurring time against my minutes.