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Jan

2009

Texas using QR Codes for flights

By Rory Rezzelle. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

According to Jaunted.com, select airports in Texas are “experimenting with checking in passengers via QR code, or those curious black-and-white nouveau barcodes.” [via Jaunted]

Edit: You can read about I-nigma Reader, a free QR Code reader for Windows Mobile, here.


 

17

Dec

2008

Beejive: The hive for all of your IM accounts!

By Rory Rezzelle. Posted in Blackberry, Windows Mobile, iPhone | No Comments »

So I was looking around for a new app to feature here and a friend bought a G1, which has built-in Google Talk, so that got me looking around for a good app to connect to Google Talk on my HTC Touch. The first link when you google “google talk windows mobile” is a post on the Official Google Mobile Blog about Google Talk being ported onto the iPhone. Now, this review isn’t about the official Google Talk app, it’s about an app that someone mentioned in a comment on that post — Beejive (pronounced bē-hīv).

Beejive is a cross-platform, multi-IM network enabled Instant Message application, it supports AIM/iChat/MobileMe, MSN/Windows Live, Yahoo!, MySpace, Google Talk, ICQ, & Jabber, and it works on Blackberry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile. Unfortunately, according to the site, the Windows Mobile version is not going to be updated and will stay in a beta version, but it is free.

Beejive is very easy to use, just install the CAB and run it. Add an IM account and you are in business right away. It’s simple to add new accounts, just go to Menu->Add Account and choose your service and type in your credentials. Nothing could be easier. The chat window is simple as well, the only thing that I experienced in the chat that had me squirming was that the auto-suggest bar gets in the way of the most recently sent chat.
 
Beejive even notifies you of chat messages after you’ve closed the client, something that I find very useful in an IM app on a mobile plaform.
 
Overall, Beejive is a good, little IM app for Windows Mobile, and being free it really doesn’t hurt the wallet as much as some other IM apps out there. There is also a trial for the Blackberry and iPhone, the full versions of those clients being paid applications.