Weatherbug has always been my first choice for weather information on my desktop and Windows device, so when I ran into a free version of Weatherbug Direct for my Blackberry, I just had to take it for a spin.

Weatherbug Direct places 2 icons on your application list, and shows the current temperature as an icon. It’s similar to the existing Blackberry push weather application, but gives you direct access to the Weatherbug site, as well as showing your local forecast (including hi/low temperatures) in a second icon.

Weatherbug Direct for the Blackberry is free, and can be found here. A direct "over the air" download link is here.

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Bored at work/the airport/a hotel? Point your mobile browser to jagamaga.mobi and browse their collection of Creative Commons ringtones. Creative Commons is a rights method where the creator of the content releases it for free, non commercial use. Which means free ringtones for you and me.

There are some pretty decent ones in their lineup (and some horrid ones), but chances are that they’ll all be better than the standard ones you got on your phone, plus you won’t be charged $2 just to download them.

On most phones you should be able to either save the clip, or instantly assign it as a ringtone.

JagaMaga (via PocketPC Thoughts)

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If you’ve ever received a call on your mobile phone from a number you don’t recognize, then this application may be of interest to you.

Privus mobile can lookup the contact information of an incoming call, so you know who is trying to get in touch. It’s rather pricey ($83.40/year)

Privus Mobile (Blackberry version)

Privus Mobile (Windows Mobile version)

Once again, I’ll try and get a review posted in the next week.

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It’s almost embarrassing that I waited this long to write about Dashwire since I’ve been using it since last year.

If you use a Windows Mobile device (smartphone or pocketPC) then you’ll really want to take this application for a spin. Imagine having access to all the content on your mobile device, through your desktop (or laptop). Call logs, SMS messages, photos, videos, contacts and even ringtones.

The application was in beta till March, but is now open (and free) to anyone that wants to make their mobile life a little easier. Later next week I’ll post a more comprehensive review and show of the many features of this awesome program, but if you don’t want to wait you can signup here.

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GigaOM has a nice comprehensive article about 7 applications that let you make (cheaper) VOIP calls using your mobile phone. They cover the usual suspects like Skype and Fring, but also several I hadn’t heard of yet.

If you are heading abroad this summer, or just like to tinker with your phone and make cheap calls, then you won’t want to miss this article.

Source: GigaOM

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What is better than listening to the traffic on your radio? Actually seeing live video shots of that traffic! Mobiletraffic.tv have over 5000 global cameras in their database, and you can view them all using your desktop/laptop or portable device.

I found their search system to be a little flaky, results for Chicago only showed one highway in Minnesota, and there is no smart spelling correction on highway names/numbers, so you’ll need to enter it correctly to get a result (I-294 instead of I294 for example). Other than that I really like the ability to actually see traffic, instead of relying on colored lines on my GPS unit.

Using your PDA or smartphone, point your browser to www.mobiletraffic.tv/wap

Via: Berryreview.com

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StyleTap have announced that they are working hard on bringing Palm application compatibility to the iPhone.

That means that the entire library of 20,000 crappy Palm applications will be available on your sleek, powerful iPhone.

Benchmarks show that these apps run almost twice as fast as the fastest Palm. Which can only mean one thing; Palm might as well stop developing new devices, and just tell everyone to get an iPhone.

Source: StyleTap

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GetMobio is an all-on-one application that works on most mobile phones and smartphones. This morning I took it for a quick spin, and found it to be a handy source of information, as well as a great way to pass the time.

Included in GetMobio are 9 different applications; Cheap Gas, local events calendar, Kaboodle (an online shopping community), a movie guide, recipes, an RSS reader, a neat trivia game, mobile Twitter access and a weather forecast.

It’s a colorful application, and on my Blackberry I found things really easy to navigate. Pages loaded a little slower than I would have wanted (but then again, I’m on slow T-mobile EDGE).

To try GetMobio yourself (free), simply point your mobile device to getmobio.com and download the application (or use their WAP version).

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Remember yesterday, when I showed you how you can trick your browser into pretending it’s an iPhone?

Well, it turns out that it’s a handy trick for more than just getting free access to Playboy.

If you are on a really slow connection, switching your browser to "iPhone mode" tricks quite a few sites into serving up mobile versions of their content.

Everything from Gmail to MSNBC.com has a mobile version, and when you are pretending to be an iPhone, you don’t need to remember the mobile URL for them, simply set your user agent to "iPhone" and surf as you normally would. You’d be amazed how many sites have content optimized for mobile users.

As a reminder; to change your "user agent" in Firefox, simply install this add-on, then manually add the iPhone user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3

Be sure to paste it on ONE line, or it won’t work.

Found any really good mobile sites for your desktop/laptop? Drop me a comment!

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WorldMate has been featured here on TravelTechTalk in the past, and has always been an impressive app, but now MobiMate have taken things to the next level with a new version of WorldMate Live.

Some of the new features include:

• A new Outlook plugin for seamless itinerary exports to the online WorldMate Live service
• One-click forwarding of itineraries through email
• Connections feature that shows the location of (approved) friends and colleagues and their itinerary.
• Automatic synchronization of all itineraries onto your mobile device (Blackberry and Windows Smartphone)
• Realtime delay and flight status notifications

I’ll try and get a full review of this posted next week, but in the meantime, why not take it for a spin yourself. The basic application is free and the "gold" version (which adds flight schedules, notifications and customer support) is $9.95 a month (or $99.95 a year).

Product page: WorldMate Live

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