Yatca 1.7 released for BlackBerry adding cool new features

by The PocketBerry Team

23 June 2009 One Comment

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There’s a new version of Yatca around, bringing awesome new capabilities such as geo-tagging and favorites. It’s been awhile since we saw an update but here it is at last! If you aren’t aware, Yatca is another Twitter client for the BlackBerry absolutely free, check out below to see what new features the Yatca creator has put in:

The ability to mark/unmark a favorite. This means for example that you can flag any items you need to come back to when you’re back at your computer.
To mark something as a favorite simply click the button or use the ‘v’ shortcut.
Next up on the feature list is geotagged photo uploads. This is disabled by default for your privacy and security. If you want to enable it go to Yatca Options and set ‘Use geotagging’ to ‘Yes’. Note that geotagging will increase your power consumption which will run down your battery a little bit quicker. Note also that on device models which default to obtaining ‘assisted fixes’ you may incur additional carrier charges. At the risk of stating the obvious, the geotagging is only effective if you are using an image storage service that supports geotagging! The default image storage service for Yatca to TweetPhoto has been changed.
The ability to pause/resume Yatca refresh finally sees the light of day in this release. Users have been asking for this for a long time. When you’re at your computer and using some ultra-slick desktop Twitter client you don’t want to be getting the same 147 tweets to your BlackBerry too. So just invoke the ‘Pause Yatca Refresh’ command. Then when you leave your computer invoke the ‘Resume Yatca Refresh’. Too easy. Note that the resume is from ‘now’, i.e. the exact instant you resume.

To go ahead and download Yatca, visit their site for a free OTA link here.

-by Mac Jadalhack