Acrobat Reader Speedup tremendously accelerates the launching of the Adobe Acrobat Reader by disabling plugins that most people use. Works great.

Check out ideapod.org, especially the 5MB high resolution panaroma of San Francisco.

Here’s an RSSreader for Blackberry. This has a much better UI than FeedBurner, another Blackberry RSSReader. Setting it up is still too complicated, especially for non-BES users, and it is still buggy, but it has potential.

I’m looking for good network visualization tools.

Not sure if this interface I really want, but the data is enlightening in a number of ways.
theyrule shows the interconnections among the board members of Amerca’s largest companies. Regardless of your politics, there’s something of interest there for everyone.

Be sure to check out the “load map” option and see some of the connections that people have reveal.

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There’s a new version of Blackberry 411 available. This is version 1.32.

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MSNBC - BlackBerry phone rings all the right notes I wouldn’t have thought a keyboard with only 20 keys would be as usable as a full QWERTY, but the reviewer likes it.

Mei Wah teaches you how read menus in Chinese so you know what you’d otherwise be missing.