View BlackBerry images easier
Having trouble viewing e-mail attachments on your BlackBerry? A Fort Collins company has developed a software application that allows users to view a variety of document types in their original form. Cerience Corp. makes document software for wireless and hand-held devices. Its latest RepliGo Professional product lets BlackBerry users view Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel files without stripping away special formatting such as charts and graphs. Zipped files, as well as fax and image files, are also supported.
“We saw that there was a hole there. BlackBerry does a great job of managing and pushing e-mail to you, but they just drop off when handling an e-mail attachment,” said Dave Cho, business development manager for Cerience. “The current e-mail attachment service BlackBerry provides gives you a very limited view of those attachments. You’re just looking at unformatted text.
That’s a great part of what e-mail is about; sometimes it’s only an attachment.”
A three-month subscription to the RepliGo service costs $29.95. An annual subscription is $99.95.
– Kimberly S. Johnson, Denver Post Staff Writer
Drill for SAT with new Pocket Prep
It’s not surprising that parents are arming their children with an array of books, CD-ROMs, workshops and other aids to help them score higher on the SAT exam. The latest weapon in that academic arsenal is a portable device that lets a student train for the SAT anytime he has a free moment. Pocket Prep is a handheld study tool developed by The Princeton Review, a publishing house that specializes in test-preparation materials, and Franklin Electronic Publishers, a company that makes portable electronic dictionaries, translators and other language tools. Pocket Prep is built around Princeton Review’s book and CD-ROM set “Cracking the SAT.” Word lists, practice drills and sample tests are built into the device’s memory and displayed on its monochrome screen. The word drills will reintroduce you to “despotic,” “florid,” “disingenuous”
and other words that could easily turn up in SAT reading questions.
– Ric Manning, The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal
