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I was reading crackberry.com and noticed two little words there, “thanks acedanger” that linked to the request/feedback category on the WordPress for Blackberry forum.

If you read here at all, you may remember that I posted something about the app where, pointing out that you couldn’t paste a URL in the dialog box that appeared. Ranaan found my post and created a topic about the issue.

The paste URL issue was added to the last beta version of the software, version 0.9.0.134.

Since I had to reinstall my blog from scratch, I downloaded and installed a new contact form, Contact Form 7. Tonight, I’ve been getting spammed like crazy from it! I really like the simplicity of setting it up. It also provides a lot of flexibility. Due to tonights spam, I finally had to install a captcha system, Really Simple CAPTCHA.

I hope it stops this crap because it’s annoying as hell. My blackberry was going nuts!!

Google created a Blackberry app (OTA link here) to help further integrate your Google Voice account in your phone. It’s a very cool application and I really like it. The only problem I had with it is that I actually had to *gasp* read the help documentation to figure out how to send a test message through it!

To send a text message using the Google Voice Blackberry app, go to the dialer tab, type the phone number that you want to send the text to, hit the blackberry menu and then select SMS and *then* you will be given an area to type out your text message.

Check out the Google Voice feature list.

WordPress created an app (ota install here) for creating and maintaining blog posts. I created (and mistakenly deleted) a small post over on my everything else blog.

The app is in beta and has some room to grow. The biggest pain in the ass that I noticed was creating a link. I had a url copied but could not paste it into the “are you trying to create a link” dialog that I was shown. Other than that, it’s definitely a cool application. I can’t wait to see how it evolves.

I signed up for Wibiya a while ago, when I read about it on a tech blog (of which I can’t remember at the moment). I quickly got an invite and it sat…for a very long time. Busy with life and in the “neglect the blog” phase I suppose.

I’m finally getting around to installing it on my blog but I can’t – I’m having issues at the final step. The problem I’m having is that the only link that I can click on the finalization step is the blogger image. This blog is a self-hosted wordpress install. I went to getsatisfaction.com and submitted a question about it. I twittered about it and mentioned @wibiya. I’m hoping that I hear something back soon.

I did a few google searches for this issue and didn’t find anything, so I think I’m missing a step somewhere.

…and before I can click “Publish”, I got a response from @wibiya on twitter letting me know that they are looking into it. That was fast…yet another reason that I’m loving twitter more and more.

Update: It’s fixed! That was awesomely fast! Thanks @wibiya, thanks twitter!!