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Check-in on a BlackBerry? Check-in on a BlackBerry?

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I have to admit that this new BlackBerry is a great improvement on the old one. Now that I have actually got it working, it is doing email, calendar, SMS, phone calls and GPS. I found a neat bit of geocaching software called Geocache Navigator, but it appears to be only for monthly subsciption on US-based contracts - shame.  

Anyway, as it also appears to support Java, I thought I would try checking in for my flight back to the UK from Lisbon. First few page were fine, but then unfortunately when I clicked the "check in now" box it just died completely. So I went to the nearest laptop in the Internet Cafe here at UserWorld and checked in there.

The airline I fly with allows me to check in 24 hours before departure. So you click on the "Departing in next 24 hours? Click here to check in" button and you would think it was intelligent enough to look up which flight you had booked with them in the next 24 hours and take you there. NO, sorry, it actually gives you a list of every flight you have booked (in my case, quite a few) going out over the next few weeks / months and has a "Check in now" button against each of them. Clicking on any of these apart form the flight you want gives you a message saying that it is longer than 24 hours away, and hence you can't check in yet. So, why give me the option then you idiots?

I also buy tickets on this website every month, but it still asks me every time what my address is, and what my credit card details are. DOOH! A CIO of a large Insurance company once said to me "Peter, I will give you data once and never again - I expect your systems to remember it." Spot on. 


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Thursday, May 22, 2008  |  Permalink |  Comments (2)

Geocache Navigator

Posted by Sundevil at 2008-05-22 12:57
Peter, you can subscribe to Geocache Navigator either monthly ($6.99) or annually ($39.99). And there's no restriction to the U.S. - geocachers all around the world use the application. You can try a 60 day trial here:
http://www.trimbleoutdoors.com/rim/

Or purchase the subscription here:
http://handmark.resultspage.com/search?w=geocache&x=0&y=0

Enjoy!
Peter Armstrong

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