Application Aims: I have something to tell you…later

Reviewer's Comments
MessageSchedule provides a handy alternative for sending email and PIN messages that is missing from the standard BlackBerry program. With it, you can compose an email or PIN message and set it to be sent at a future time that you designate. It can be particularly useful in sending a message to yourself for an important reminder. MessageScheduler is integrated so completely with the BlackBerry programming that it doesn’t even seem like an additional program is running. It simply adds a couple of options to the menus.

To use it, start by composing the email or PIN message exactly as normal. When complete, press the menu key and select Save Draft. Next, highlight the saved draft in the message list and again press the menu key. Select Schedule Send, set the date and time that you’d like the message to be sent and click OK. That’s all there is to it. Try it once and you’ll find that it’s easier to do than it is to reading this paragraph.

It is necessary to leave the BlackBerry device turned on until after the designated time has passed for MessageScheduler to work. If the device is rebooted before that time, the saved draft will display a red X next to it in the message list and it would have to be rescheduled in order to be sent. Scheduled messages will, however, still be sent at the assigned time even if the device is locked or holstered.

MessageScheduler is a very helpful application that adds the option of sending email or PIN messages at a point in the future. It is available from the developer’s web site, www.zaventh.net, for $8.95.

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