¡Café para el mensajero! Muchos lectores nos han solicitado la información de como descargar el Windows Live Messenger para tu BlackBerry.

En este caso lo vamos hacer de un dispositivo BlackBerry 7250 CDMA 1x EvDO que no tenía previamente instalado el Windows Live Messenger. La url a usar de nuestro navegador es http://www.blackberry.com/instantmessagim Desde este sito, vamos a encontrar y descargar a los tres programas de mensajería instantánea para BlackBerry: Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live! Messenger y Google Talk!.

Espero llenar sus expectativas.

Luego de introducir la dirección http://www.blackberry.com/instantmessagim en nuestro navegador BlackBerry, aparece la pantalla de la izquierda. Presionando la tecla de espacio de manera repetida, llegas hasta abajo y le das al botón buscar.

Aparece la pantalla de la izquierda ahora, baja por la pantalla, luego de Yahoo! Messenger, viene Windows Live Messenger.

Nota que si bajas un poquito mas en la pantalla, aparece el link de Descargar Windows Live Messenger. Al accionarlo te aparece la pantalla de la derecha.

En la pantalla de la izquierda se advierte que la aplicación en el caso de los BES, requiere permiso del administrador de la red. Como la mayoría somos BIS, no te compliques y dale a descargar. Aparece la pantalla de la derecha.

Baja un poco en la pantalla de la derecha y selecciona Español, luego le das al boton Enviar. Aparece una nueva pantalla: la de la derecha con los términos y condiciones.

La pantalla de la izquierda es bien larga. Dale repetidamente a la tecla espacio hasta llegar al mismo punto que se muestra. Seleccionas Acepto y luego seleccionas la tecla Enviar. Aparece la pantalla de la derecha y seleccionas el botón descargar.

Luego comienza la descarga vía OTA a nuestro BlackBerry. Deja quieto tu dispositivo. Luego de finalizar la descarga el mismo se instala y al final del procedimiento aparece la pantalla de la derecha, donde indica que La aplicación se ha instalado correctamente. Le das a Aceptar y listo empieza a usarlo.

Usamos las capturas de pantalla de un BlackBerry 7250 CDMA 1x EvDO para demostrar que no se necesita el OS 4.5 para poder descargar la aplicación de Windows Live Messenger para BlackBerry.

Se recomienda antes de bajar la aplicación, mandarse los libros de servicio.

Se recomienda en el caso de los clientes del operador Movistar que tengan el plan de 3 megas, subirlo al de 500 mb.

Los clientes de Digitel GSM y de Movilnet pueden descargarlo también.

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¡Café dominical! Mas de 800 correos desato al fiebre del Windows Live Messenger para dispositivos BlackBerry. En la interacción con nuestros amables lectores, nos dimos de cuenta, que hay dudas por resolver.

Una de ellas es referente a los libros de servicio de BlackBerry.

“Los libros de servicios determinan los servicios que están disponibles en el dispositivo BlackBerry®. Si cambia de dispositivo o si el dispositivo no funciona correctamente, envíe los libros de servicios a su dispositivo” define RIM en su website en castellano. Ver. Definición de Libros de Servicio RIM. La captura de la izquierda, corresponde a los libros de servicio de un Nokia E61, cuando Valmore León Molero probada el servicio BlackBerry Connect en él.

Si me permiten decirlo: los libros de servicios son las instrucciones que deben recibir los dispositivos BlackBerry para poder funcionar. Esto sucede porque cada operador decide que servicios va habilitar con RIM, o si el operador va a segmentar los servicios para cobrarlos por separado en el caso de los clientes BIS.

En el caso de los clientes BES es el administrador del sistema que decide que va a funcionar y que no del conjunto de funciones de BlackBerry Connect, e incluso del hardware del dispositivo BlackBerry. Por ejemplo, en BES, se puede impedir que la cámara de su Pearl o Curve funcionen por motivos de seguridad industrial.

Antes que pregunten:

BIS es BlackBerry Internet Service, es decir, el servicio BlackBerry para particulares. Acá estamos los prepago y postpago.

BES es BlackBerry Enterprise Server es decir, un nivel de servicio BlackBerry a nivel empresarial, que necesita obligatoriamente un servidor Exchange dedicado. Solo clientes postpago.

Además de los libros de servicios, el equipo debe registrarse en la VPN BlackBerry del operador.

¿Como mandarse los libros de servicio desde el BlackBerry?

Primero buscas el ícono de E-Mail Setting (Configuración de correo electrónico), lo accionas y vas a la pantalla de la derecha, donde ponen el nombre y contraseña de tu “Cuenta BlackBerry”.

Luego de marcar correctamente los datos de tu “cuenta blackberry”, aparecen la pantalla de la izquierda. Busca entonces el item Libros de Servicios. Al hacer clic sobre el item aparecerá la pantalla de la derecha. Sólo tienes ahora que seleccionar “Enviar libros de servicios” y estos se mandaran a tu BlackBerry.

Si todo paso correctamente aparece la pantalla de la izquierda. Le das a Aceptar y te aparece la pantalla de la derecha. Dale ahora a la tecla espacio de tu BlackBerry para bajar al fondo de la pantalla.

Dale ahora a Cerrar sesión. Luego te aparece la pantalla de la derecha. No has concluido. Vuelve a presionar de manera repetida a la tecla espacio o a la ruedita o al trackball para desplazarte hasta el fondo de esta pantalla.

Dale a Cerrar el explorador y colorin colorado este cuento se ha acabado.

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GSM Arena did a thorough comparison review of the first two WinMo 6.1 smartphones in the market. The HTC Touch Diamond has a better screen (Diamond’s VGA screen is the best in the industry) and OS while the Samsung Omnia has a better battery life, processor, camera and a universal virtual keyboard and of course the DivX support is nice as well.

In the end, though, the reviewers at GSM-A couldn’t decide which one is better, but the effort at getting into the features of both phones in detail are very commendable. read more of it here.

Our HTC Touch Diamond page is here.

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Many current iPhone owners will be happy to upgrade to the 3G iPhone for the obvious improvements and if you are on certain phone plans, it could even mean a free next generation iPhone.

The basic price of an iPhone 2.0 is $199 but you will need to take out a new 2-year contract with AT&T, if you do not want to do that then its going to cost you.

The problem with buying the 3G iPhone with no contract is that you will have to pay $699 for a 16GB and $599 for a 8GB iPhone; although it is the first time the United States has had this option.

What I have trouble with is if the phone is still locked to AT&T, does it make any sense to buy an iPhone 3G with no contract for $599 and still be locked to AT&T?

For people who do not like being tied to contracts and still want Apple?s phone, I guess having that freedom will come at a heavy price. Are you willing to pay it?

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¡Café para celebrar! Luego de la actualización del 4 de julio en los servidores de RIM (Research in Motion = Investigación en Movimiento) ya lo podemos usar.

Observamos en la captura de la imagen como a llegar un nuevo mensaje, este queda registrado con una señal visual que vemos en forma de globo de conversación en la parte superior derecha de la pantalla de nuestro BlackBerry 8320 412.

Contrario a lo que algunos suponen, esta mensajería instantánea esta disponible para todos los BlackBerry de todos los modelos y de todas las operadoras venezolanas. He podido descargar Windows Live Messenger a todos mis BlackBerry 8100, 8120, 8300, 8310, 8320 y hasta el legendario BlackBerry 7250 CDMA 1x EvDO.

Integración total

Como ha sucedido cuando has instalado a Yahoo! Messenger o el Google Talk! en tu dispositivo de RIM, al instalar el Windows Live Messenger se genera un nuevo campo en la libreta de direcciones del dispositivo BlackBerry al que se le instala.

Esto sucede para integrarlo de tal manera que desde la aplicación Windows Live Messenger podemos enviarle a nuestro contacto un SMS, un mensaje PIM o hasta llamarlo a su celular, sin tener que salir de ella. Claro, para ello tienen que estar estos datos (el número de teléfono o el PIM) en el campo respectivo de nuestra libreta de direcciones.

Noten que tal avanzada característica no esta presente en los dispositivos con sistema operativo Windows Mobile.

Si bien es cierto que en los dispositivos con sistema operativo Windows Mobile, esta el campo para colocar la mensajería instántanea, desde tu Windows Live Messenger no puedes llamar, mandarle mensajes de texto, como si puedes hacerlo desde tu BlackBerry. ¡Tremenda ventaja la de RIM!

Iconos gestuales de Windows Live! Messenger

Si estas conversando con un amigo, puedes realzar la misma con iconos gestuales para transmitir mas emoción, interactividad.

Hay cuatro pantallas para manejar los iconos en tu Windows Live Messenger:

Como ves los iconos gestuales del MSN Messenger, están Windows Live Messenger disponibles.

Con imágenes

Esta capturas muestran como carga el Windows Live Messenger en tu BlackBerry:

El menú de la ventana principal del Windows Live Messenger es muy intuitiva en el BlackBerry. Cargan todas las fotos y esta disponible la tarjeta de usuario para una correcta identificación en caso de alguna duda.

Sigue tus conversaciones

Puedes tener siempre un indicativo visual en tu pantalla inicia o en tu bandeja de entrada, de como van tus conversaciones de en Windows Live Messenger en tu BlackBerry.

Puedes incluso copiar el historial de la conversación para mandarla por correo. Puedes hacer conferencia con varios contactos de Windows Live Messenger desde tu BlackBerry.

Como se ve es bastante amigable esta versión de Windows Live Messenger para OS BlackBerry. Este mejor que la de los dispositivos con sistema operativo Windows Mobile.

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Games like Call of Duty 4 run at a framerate of 60 frames per second on both systems. But Call of Duty 4 is a game that experienced technical problems with various bottlenecks due to the varying levels of action that occur on the screen. The game was originally designed to run at 60 frames per second at 720p, but it caused drops in the framerate.

The proof of this is the fact that Call of Duty 4 runs at a resolution of only 640p on both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. This may be ?equal? in terms of what is displayed on the screen, but the FACT is that Call of Duty 4 is putting a much larger burden on the PS3 than it is the Xbox 360.

Confirmation of this can be seen in the large number of games that ?run smoothly at 60 frames per second on the Xbox 360, but struggle to run at 30 frames per second on the Playstation 3.? That was a quote from Gamespot.

It?s simple math: The Xbox 360 can display approximately 500,000,000 polygons per second, compared to 275,000,000 polygons per second for the Playstation 3.

Multi-platform games use what is called a ?Lowest Common Denominator? form of programming.

Basically, what this means is the developers start out by saying to themselves, ?We need to develop a game for the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3.?

Then, the developers put limits on how many polygons they are going to put on the screen, and they determine what framerate the game will run at as a result of that number.

When the developers multiply the number of polygons displayed on the screen by the number of frames being displayed each second, they examine what that number is. Multi-platform games can NEVER display more than 275,000,000 polygons per second, or else they can?t be released for the Playstation 3, since the PS3 cannot display more than 275,000,000 polygons per second.

As a result, developers are often conservative with the number of polygons being displayed with multi-platform games, especially with the poor reputation of inconsistent framerates that the Playstation 3 has acquired over time.

It basically comes down to these THREE factors:
If a multi-platform game running at 30 frames per second on the Playstation 3 uses 250,000,000 polygons or less, it gives the developers the ability to allow the Xbox 360 version to run at 60 frames per second, since 500,000,000 is double the number of 250,000,000.

If a multi-platform game running at 30 frames per second on the Playstation 3 uses over 250,000,000 polygons per second, it means the Xbox 360 version is also forced to run at only 30 frames per second. This is an unfortunate situation, because it means the Playstation 3 will be using 90-100% of its power by displaying somewhere between 250,000,000 to 275,000,000 polygons per second, while the Xbox 360 will only be using 60% of its power, since the Xbox 360 has so much more polygon power.

If a multi-platform game is intended to run at 60 frames per second on the Playstation 3, the Xbox 360 version will also run at 60 frames per second. The Playstation 3 version will be limited to 275,000,000 polygons per second. The Xbox 360 will also be limited to 275,000,000 polygons per second, due to the fact that 275,000,000 is the Lowest Common Denominator. This is unfortunate, because it means the Playstation 3 version will be using between 90% to 100% of the systems power, while the Xbox 360 will be using only 60% of the systems power. Call of Duty 4 is an excellent example of this situation.

The Playstation 3 only transfers data at a rate of 54MB per second as a Blu-ray player being used for movies. When it comes to gaming, there are hardware ?bottlenecks? that the Playstation 3 faces, which allows the PS3 to transfer data at a rate of only 9MB per second. The Xbox 360 transfers data at a rate of 16MB per second.

The Official Playstation Magazine wrote an article about the longer load times of PS3 games shortly after the Playstation 3 was launched. The only time the PS3 does not have to deal with either noticeably or significantly longer load times is when the game is placed on the PS3 hard drive. Sadly, it often takes over TWENTY long minutes to write the game onto the PS3 hard drive. Even when a PS3 game is written onto a hard drive, the load times between Xbox 360 games and PS3 games is virtually identical, as we saw in Devil May Cry 4 and Grand Theft Auto 4.

Gamespot has conducted a Graphics Comparison between the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 each year since the Playstation 3 has been available. Xbox 360 has been declared the winner of the Graphics Comparison each of the three years: 2006, 2007, 2008.

2008 shows that the gap in performance continues to get bigger, in favor of the Xbox 360. Here is the hyperlink that shows the newest comparison?one the Xbox 360 easily defeats the Playstation.

Also, the Xbox 360 uses 10MB of eDRAM. This new form of RAM technology is something that even Windows Vista-based PCs do not yet take advantage of. The next release of Direct-X on the PC will start to take advantage of eDRAM technology for gaming, but it still hasn?t happened yet.

This just goes to show you how incredibly far ahead of its time the Xbox 360 Unified-Shader GPU/Multi-Core CPU design is.

Thanks to Mike Zoran

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Es increíble como Google se le inserta a uno en las cosas indispensables a usar y se hace tanto de ello que hasta nos dedican su logo hoy desde http://www.google.co.ve Feliz día de nuestra independencia venezolana

Gracias Ramón Lopez por el dato

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¡Café naranja! Recibimos reportes desde Barquisimeto, estado Lara, de nuestro amigo Oswaldo Castillo, quien nos comenta una buena noticia y otra mala.

La buena: descargo el Windows Live! Messenger en su BlackBerry 7250 416.

La mala: Estando en zona de cobertura EvDO, le desapareció el ícono y solo le aparece 1x. No puede enviar correos. Le aparece la leyenda “service blocked”. Sólo puede navegar por el opera mini, mandar y recibir SMS y llamadas de voz. La imagen usada en este post es referencial. Agradecemos sus reportes. Pudiera ser una actualización puntual para Movilnet que va a recibir en breve una nueva adición de un nuevo dispositivo BlackBerry.

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¡Ventanal de Café! Siempre hacemos conferencias telefónicas. En una de ellas el sábado pasado, Valmore y muchos más entre los cuales me incluyo, sospechamos que el última actualización era determinante para el uso del Windows Live! Messenger y otras aplicaciones que deben estar listas para sacarle todo el provecho a los actuales dispositivos y naturalmente, para el BlackBerry Bold.

Algunos problemas con 4.5

Los usuarios BlackBerry que hemos actualizado desde versiones beta, hemos tenido problemas de acentuación en el BlackBerry Messenger. En el caso del correo en formato html, hemos tenido dos problemas que hasta ahora nadie ha mencionado:

Uno: al enviar nuestro correo los acentos se cambian por extraños caracteres y desparecen los espacios y separaciones, apilando todo el correo haciendolo díficil de leer por quien lo recibe desde un BlackBerry con OS anterior al 4.5

Dos: Al darle a la opción de descargar las imágenes estás no se visualizan.

Tres: a igual que los otros usuarios con OS anteriores al 4.5, no hemos podido usar el Windows Live! Messenger. Este último item cambio desde ayer con la última actualización, además del primero, por que ya podemos acentuar en el BlackBerry Messenger.

Lo que queda pendiente amigos es la liberación oficial del OS 4.5. Paciencia amig@s!

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Here are the top 10 of the most expensive retro games currently sold in Tokyo’s Akihabara district (based on my research in about 10 stores). I took the picture above in the place I love the most on this earth, the Super Potato used game store in the heart of Akihabara. Believe it or not, I didn’t see anything cool gear-wise so this list must do as a “live” report from the world’s Nerdvana for now.

Compared to 1999, when I was still a game collector and went there for the first time, prices went down dramatically but there are still some very, very pricey carts and CDs for sale. Some of these were available outside Japan in localized versions.

Top 10: San San $420/boxed
(1994, Genesis, based on the Japanese board game Go)

Top 9: Gradius Archinmendes $470/cart only
(1987, NES, promo version of Gradius made for a Japanese noodle maker)

Top 8: Kinnikuman $560/cart only
(1985, NES, released in the USA as M.U.S.C.L.E.)

Top 8: Foreman for real $560/boxed
(1995, Genesis)

Top 6: Virtual Bart $590/boxed
(1995, Genesis, based on “The Simpsons”)

Top 5: Safety Rally $750/cart only
(1986, NES, racing game)

Top 4: Delisoba deluxe $920/boxed
(1997, Sega Saturn, based on the terrible Courier Crisis)

Top 4: Tag Team Pro Wrestling Special $920/cart only
(1986, NES)

Top 2: Darius Alpha $960/boxed
(1991, PC-Engine/Turbo Grafx, shooting game, limited to 800 copies)

Top 1: Kidou Senshi-Z Gundam Hot Scramble Final Version $1,400/boxed
(1986, NES, shooting game, limited to 1,000 copies)

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I was wondering what sounds you use for various notifications on your device. I suspect a few of you leave the default sounds on, but most of you probably customize just about every sound on the device. Here is my listing of key sounds:

• Ringer - telephone ringer from the show 24. I also have the phone vibrate simultaneously.
• Email - I use the default Alarm3 sound that comes with the device. Well below the annoying threshold for emails.
• SMS messages - A sound from the STNG computer - annoying for frequent SMS messages, but great for just a few a day
• Reminder - TOS Red Alert klaxon - guaranteed to keep you from being late to any meeting. I also use this to wake up.

I pretty much leave the rest on the default settings, except for MMS, which I turn completely off. So, what's on your device?

It probably happens to everyone. You dash out of the office at the end of the day, only to find out later that you left a vital file on your work computer.

The Moto ROKR E8 will land in Canada soon with Rogers. It’s a quadband phone with a unique FastScroll navigation and Haptics. For a complete description, visit our Rokr E8 page.

The Rokr E8 was announced a while back for July and it’s coming on schedule. It’s priced $149.99 at Bestbuy with a three year contract and $334.99 without.

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The computer users of the world have been getting more interested in open source and free software for some time now and Microsoft?s new Equipt subscription service is aimed at defending the Office franchise.

As we reported the other day, the pricing model for Equipt will be $69.99 per year and you get a lot of software for the money that can be accessed by up to three computers.

Circuit City have got the exclusive rights to Equipt beginning mid-July and it?s hoped by Microsoft that the convenience of Equipt will stop some Office users moving towards the open source or free software route.

There is a lot of competition for Microsoft and that?s why this new service was needed to keep them in the game, as IBM is offering Lotus Symphony free and also other brands have similar free Office software packages.

The sales results for Office products have shown a downward pattern and the last quarter saw Office products among consumers drop 39%.

Will you use the new Equipt subscription service or do you have another favorite?

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There's certainly no shortage of researchers working on printable electronics these days, but a group from the EU-funded CONTACT project is now boasting of a "major step" towards being able to print electronics on everyday materials. At the moment, they seem to be focused primarily on printing organic TFT displays directly onto glass plates, which apparently required the use of some aggressive solvents that "attack" the organic materials between the TFT and liquid crystal layers. Their current Labratester 1 printer (pictured above) apparently still has some problems precisely lining up each layer, however, but they say that'll be fixed with the addition of some optical cameras in the Labratester 2 machine they're now working on. Eventually, they say the system could be used to easily and cheaply print displays directly on watch faces or glasses, or even print other electronics onto paper or other fabrics.

[Via Protein Feed, image courtesy of NSMZ]