A few weeks ago, a friend approached me with a BlackBerry problem. He had received an email with a PDF attachment, but was having trouble reading it. He could zoom in and enhance the image, but couldn’t scroll around once enhanced. So he’d have to enhance one section, back out, then another, repeat until finished. If you’ve ever been in that predicament, it’s no fun. BlackBerry News points us to a solution. It’s called BeamReader, and it will allow you to view your on-device and email attachment PDF files. Best of all, it’s free.
The idea behind BeamReader is that you can view PDFs just as you would on your computer. As they say: “Furthermore, rendering of the documents is completely local to the device and you do not need a data plan to use the reader.”
It’s still in beta, but BBNews says it’s working pretty well. You can find it at their download page.
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After I downloaded and installed BeamBerry, an icon for yellowpages.com appeared on my 8820; I’ll be deleting the application and giving BeamBerry a wide berth.
Have uninstalled BeamBerry but the yellowpages.com icon remains. It’s not in the list of Applications. I really hate it when something is stuffed down my throat.
Expireware. Big waste of my time. Thanks ;-/
This problem cannot be related to BeamBerry. It has nothing to do with yellowpages.com. Something else must be going on on your BlackBerry.
Thanks, Owl. I will have more time to look into it this weekend.