Selasa, 19 Juni 2012

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Devs: RIM Holding 4 More Cascades SDK Webinars This Week (Reruns)

Posted: 19 Jun 2012 02:01 AM PDT

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Today at 11:00 am EST/8:00 am PST RIM is holding another webinar on the Cascades SDK for BlackBerry 10. Haricharan let us know that RIM sent out an email about 4 more reruns of the webinar that they will be holding this week for those who miss today's webcast. This is to help work around peoples schedules along with time differences. Here is the full schedule:

  • Tue. June 19, 2012 at 11:00 am EST/8:00 am PAC (original webcast time)
  • Wed. June 20, 2012 at 11:00 am EST/8:00 am PAC
  • Wed. June 20, 2012 at 2:00 pm EST/11:00 am PAC
  • Thu. June 21, 2012 at 11:00 am EST/8:00 am PAC
  • Thu. June 21, 2012 at 2:00 pm EST/11:00 am PAC

Registration is open so make sure to put your name on the list!

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, June 19, 2012, 5:01 am. | Devs: RIM Holding 4 More Cascades SDK Webinars This Week (Reruns) | Leave a comment |


Scrubly Cleans & Backs Up Your Gmail & Outlook Contacts

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 02:52 PM PDT

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I have been going through the painful process of merging and cleaning up my contacts from Gmail, two Google Apps accounts, Outlook, and a few other sources. I have managed to get them all into Gmail but it has been a real pain to keep them in sync and merged and disseminated to my BlackBerry and PlayBook. Jason told me to check out Scrubly as a solution for removing duplicate contacts and merging contacts along with backing it up into a central location.

I am currently trying out their free plan for up to 250 contacts which seems to work nicely. They have two plans for those serious about cleaning up their contacts. For $19.99 you can do a one time clean up for an unlimited number of contacts. For $39.95/year you get unlimited contacts and unlimited scrubs per year.

Check it out at www.scrubly.com

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, June 18, 2012, 5:52 pm. | Scrubly Cleans & Backs Up Your Gmail & Outlook Contacts | Leave a comment |


FixYa Launches Beautiful HTML5 Mobile Website

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 12:47 PM PDT

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I have regularly found solutions to my gadget and electrical problems at FixYa. That is why I was happy to learn that they now have a very slick HTML5 mobile website. They are touting it as a HTML5 mobile app but it definitely gets the job done. It gives you what is essentially the full FixYa experience without all the weight. Features include:

  • Sleek and refined HTML5 design and user experience
  • Free expert solutions for more than 4 million products
  • Search and find solutions by product name, brand, and other keywords
  • Read top solutions posted by experts, ranked by quality and popularity
  • Colorful achievements for expert contributors

Check it out at www.fixya.com and let us know what you think. I personally really like the navigation when you click on the logo.

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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, June 18, 2012, 3:47 pm. | FixYa Launches Beautiful HTML5 Mobile Website | One comment |


Devs: BlackBerry 10 Cascades Webinar Tomorrow (June 19th)

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 10:45 AM PDT

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We told you a bit back that RIM was doing another webinar on the Cascades SDK for BlackBerry 10. This will be happening tomorrow, June 19th, and is titled Astonishing UIs using the new BlackBerry 10 framework. This is your chance to get up to speed on developing for BlackBerry 10 using Cascades as a UI framework. RIM claims to have bundled all you need to know about Cascades into this 1 hour webcast with the following description:

Consider this your invitation to all things Cascades! Come see what all the hype is about and learn how to get started with the next evolution of application framework for the BlackBerry 10 platform. The session will include an overview of what Cascades is and cover the basics of developing in Cascades; after which we should have some time for a live coding example and a brief Q&A period.

Registration is still open so make sure to put your name on the list! It will be going on at 11:00 am EST/8:00 am PST and should be quite interesting for developers both new and experienced.

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, June 18, 2012, 1:45 pm. | Devs: BlackBerry 10 Cascades Webinar Tomorrow (June 19th) | 3 comments |


Medieval Tower Defense Game Comes to the PlayBook

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 09:06 AM PDT

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I am a huge fan of tower defense games which is why I was excited to see the popular Medieval game in the BlackBerry PlayBook top sellers in App World. Medieval from Brisk Mobile has seen over 3 million downloads on other platforms and now it is on the PlayBook. It is the classic castle defense style with archers, armor, bombs, boulders, catapults, cauldrons, and more. In short you will be having a blast playing it.

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Features include:

  • 3 Levels of difficulty: Easy, Medium, Hard
  • 3 Different Shooting Modes: Auto Fire, Show Arc, Drag Fire.
  • 6 Different Troop types including war machines like Catapults and fast moving cavalry Raiders.
  • 7 stunning locations.
  • 8 Unique weapons such as flaming arrows and multi-shots. Each with multiple upgrades available for maximum devastation.

Check out Medieval in App World for $3.99. You can see the iOS platform trailer below to get an idea of the gameplay:


Desktop Video Link | Mobile Video Link

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, June 18, 2012, 12:06 pm. | Medieval Tower Defense Game Comes to the PlayBook | Leave a comment |


RIM Shares Some BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour Stats

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 08:02 AM PDT

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The BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour has been making a whirlwind journey around the world. They are about to kick off this week in my hometown of NYC and based on previous events this should be another hit event. RIM was kind enough to send us over some details about the events with both Toronto and NYC starting this week at fully booked events with more than 250 developers at each.

They shared some solid stats about the whole roadshow along with quotes from some developers who attended the first events in the North America tour:

  • 23 BlackBerry Jam Cities in 12 Weeks
  • Over 5,000 Developer Attendees Anticipated Worldwide
  • Over 5,000 BlackBerry Dev Alpha test devices seeded
  • Over 300 apps to be presented as lightning pitches (whereby select registrants pitch their apps to fellow attendees. Attendees vote for a winner)
  • Fully booked events in Paris, London, Jakarta, Barcelona, Berlin, Toronto, New York, Santa Clara and Bangalore

Here's what developers are saying coming out of the BlackBerry Jam events:

"With BlackBerry 10, RIM is providing developers with a wider selection of first-party tools than any other mobile platform available and is evolving them based on developers’ direct input. The result is that RIM is delivering high-quality tools which meet developers’ actual needs, enabling us to focus on what we do best instead of fighting with our tools."

- Matt Lewandowsky, developer, Greenviolet

"BlackBerry more than ever before is invested in developers. The tools are better than ever before, the support is there as well. I’m very excited for the future of BlackBerry."

- Arthur Phillips, Developer, GadgetNerdly

"I've seen without a doubt that RIM knows what they are doing and they are empowering their developers by providing all the right tools. It was encouraging seeing the BlackBerry team readily and openly answering questions of the crowd at a recent event and candidly making themselves available to developers. When a developer asked when to expect the BlackBerry 10 tools to be ready, the reply came, 'It will be ready when you tell us its ready.'"

- Mikel Calderon, teacher and new developer

"With BlackBerry 10 and its suite of developer tools, RIM enables a wide array of developers, ranging from web programmers to C/C++ hackers, to rapidly build fast, secure, and graphics-rich mobile apps. Impressive tool kit and an engaging user experience!"

- Vikram Davar, Principal at Tezlane Inc.

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, June 18, 2012, 11:02 am. | RIM Shares Some BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour Stats | 2 comments |


Free Advance OS and LED Utility Updated to v13.1.1

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 06:59 AM PDT

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One of my favorite BlackBerry utilities just got even better. Advance OS and LED by Sultan Al Sooz is a sweet all in one utility for your BlackBerry smartphone that is totally free. It does everything from merging duplicate contacts to vibrating when a call connects. Irving let me know that the latest version of Advance OS and LED has been released bringing us to v13.1.1 with loads of updates. The change log includes

  • Major App UI Changes
  • Added Multi-Color LEDs feature (AKA Disco lights)
  • Added auto download Email Attachments feature (images or all files)
  • Added file manager (OS7+ only) and media folder to iLaunch feature
  • Added Call Dial Confirm feature (with additional Anti-Child Lock)
  • added randomization for wallpaper feature.
  • added email popups preview in HTML for the popup feature.
  • added two new short LED stop timers (10 and 30 seconds) for the LED Light feature
  • fixed compatibility issue with whatsapp and other apps.
  • fixed redial screen not showing the last 10 seconds or showing wrong number sometimes
  • fixed miss call LED not running in Multi-LED mode
  • Many more small fixes and enhancements.

I HIGHLY recommend checking out Advance OS and LED if you don't already have it installed on your BlackBerry. You can find Advance OS and LED free in App World. Don't forget to also "Like" their Facebook page for the latest updates.

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, June 18, 2012, 9:59 am. | Free Advance OS and LED Utility Updated to v13.1.1 | 3 comments |


Easily Change The Snooze Time From the BlackBerry Reminder Popup!

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 05:50 AM PDT

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I have been looking for a solution for being able to easily change the snooze time for a reminder  or alarm on my BlackBerry for years. Somehow Kevin @CrackBerry found about this easter egg hidden in the BlackBerry calendar that allows you to do just this. By entering in a certain code in the calendar options screen you will not have the ability to change the snooze time in 5 minute increments from 1 minute to 60 minutes by scrolling left or right. The best part is that it works in both the Alarm Clock and Calendar reminders.

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To enable this awesome feature that should be enabled by default simply:

  1. Open the Calendar application
  2. Press the menu button and select options
  3. In the options type the letters acsz
    NOTE:     if "acsz" does not work then try "ALT+acsz"
  4. As confirmation of it being enabled you should immediately see a popup stating "Now allowing user to change snooze from dialog"

If you ever want to disable this feature just perform the same process again. I am just shocked that RIM does not have this as a menu option even though it seems like it has been there since OS 5.0. I really hope RIM publicizes it more and enables it by default. This is one of those features that I cannot imagine anyone turning off… Kudos to Kevin for figuring it out.

PS: Anyone figure out what ACSZ stands for? I feel like we need to start typing in Konami style codes into all the native apps until we find more easter eggs…

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, June 18, 2012, 8:50 am. | Easily Change The Snooze Time From the BlackBerry Reminder Popup! | 5 comments |


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