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+I just got a Blackberry for work, and I've been looking around for +some simple applications. The entire experience reminds me of looking +for Windows Mobile software; a bunch of small, money grubbing companies trying to nickel +and dime people for things they have no business charging for. $5 for +a crappy theme that you obviously spent 15 minutes on? No thanks, I'll +make my own. $15 for your E-Book reader? I already made a mistake when +I bought your shitty software for my +PDA +two years ago; I won't be fooled again. What a bunch of thieving bastards. +

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+The good news is that I did manage to find a couple of decent +applications. Here they are: +

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+Also, Blackberry Freaks +and GetJar both have lists of free +software for the Blackberry. Actually, GetJar is useful for any +J2ME/MIDP-capable +device; that's where I got most of the software for my Samsung t809. +There's also midlet.org, +although everything there seems to be straight out of 2002. +

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+The best overall Blackberry forum I've found so far seems to be +Blackberry Forums. I particularly like the developer forum. +

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+I also managed to get the MIDP SDK up and running +without too much effort. You basically just uncompress the archive +wherever, then add the $MIDP_DIR/classes directory to your +classpath when compiling your .java files. It includes an +MIDP emulator which works fine for several applications I've tried, and +also seems to hate the JAD files I'm generating for no apparent reason. +Oh well. Here are the interesting MIDP and Blackberry development links +I've dug up: +

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+Fire an email or comment my way if you've got any more useful links. +

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