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- Free MapSearch Version Offers Basic Google Maps for PlayBook Users
- CompRemote Lite: Control Your Computer From Your PlayBook For Free!
- JoyBits Releases Popular Doodle God Game for PlayBook OS 2.0
- BlackBerry Desktop Software v7.0 B44 Officially Released for PCs
- Free vnPButils Utility Lets You Easily Sideload & Manage Apps on Your PlayBook
- BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Launching Publicly on February 21st (after Presidents Day)
- Giveaway Winners: Easy Lock Pro – Slide up to unlock your phone
- RIM Sees 6600 New Registered Developers in 11 Days!
- Magmic Chronicles 10 Years of BlackBerry Development for 10th Birthday
- BlackBerry Torch 9810 OS 7.1.0.258 Found Online
- Peep It Comes Out of Beta Letting You Read BBM Messages Without Others Knowing
- Free BBM Social Network Smoothie Updated to v2.0
- Love Spell Valentine’s Day Theme Free for a Limited Time
- ShopBlackBerry Returns PlayBook Prices to $199 16GB, $249 32GB, & $299 64GB
| Free MapSearch Version Offers Basic Google Maps for PlayBook Users Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:58 AM PST
One of the things missing on my PlayBook is a solid GPS app that compares to BlackBerry or Google Maps on my smartphone. Sandsoft has been working on a stopgap solution for now that works relatively well based on Google Maps V3 JavaScript API but until now you had to pay $2.99 for a pro version. Kiran from Sandsoft let us know that they have released a free version of MapSearch to fill in that gap. The free version includes many of the features of the pro version except for things like driving directions and places search. Hopefully RIM is working on bringing BlackBerry, Google, or Bing maps to the PlayBook natively. Until then you can check out the free version of MapSearch here in App World. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 15, 2012, 4:58 am. | Free MapSearch Version Offers Basic Google Maps for PlayBook Users | Leave a comment |
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| CompRemote Lite: Control Your Computer From Your PlayBook For Free! Posted: 14 Feb 2012 10:42 PM PST
I just came across this extremely useful utility app for my PlayBook. It is called CompRemote Lite and once configured, turns your PlayBook into a trackpad complete with left click, right click and scrolling features that controls your computer! I am preparing to start student teaching soon and have been looking for excuses…I mean reasons to use my PlayBook in the classroom. This is a perfect app to allow me freedom to move around the class as I control the computer from my PlayBook. I’m sure many of you can think of other ways to use this as well. Any presentation and messing with co-workers, friends and family are a couple that come to mind right away. The app looks like the screenshot above with one exception: there is a broken line along the right side of the screen that allows for scrolling. This was added in an update. You can also input text using the PlayBook keyboard by using the standard swipe from the bottom left corner gesture. Overall, the performance is quite impressive with only a short lag between touching the PlayBook screen and moving the pointer on your computer. Setup is simple once you figure it out.
Let us know how you will use CompRemote lite on your PlayBook! Get CompRemote Lite for free at App World More information on CompRemote Lite at the developers website No related posts. Posted by jforce for ©BerryReview, February 15, 2012, 1:42 am. | CompRemote Lite: Control Your Computer From Your PlayBook For Free! | Leave a comment |
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| JoyBits Releases Popular Doodle God Game for PlayBook OS 2.0 Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:17 PM PST
These are the types of games and apps RIM is hoping to attract to the BlackBerry Platform. One of the good examples is Doodle God from JoyBits which they just ported to the BlackBerry PlayBook. In case you are not familiar this game is sort of like Alchemy where you mix and match different elements to create things. Its sort of a fast pace puzzle game that is easy to pickup but hard to beat. You can now find Doodle God in App World for $1.99. Hopefully a free version will also be coming soon though they do that with in app payments on other platforms so it might be awhile. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, February 14, 2012, 5:17 pm. | JoyBits Releases Popular Doodle God Game for PlayBook OS 2.0 | 2 comments |
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| BlackBerry Desktop Software v7.0 B44 Officially Released for PCs Posted: 14 Feb 2012 01:43 PM PST
RIM released BlackBerry Desktop Software v7.0 in the Beta Zone back in November of last year. Vodafone then sort of released it on their website in January but RIM was nice and hush about it. Now RIM has officially made Desktop Manager v7.0 official on their website and available to all for download. This version is 7.0 B44 and was just released today along with a bunch of knowledge base articles about it that you can find below. I have not found the change log for this release but it is supposed to improve sync to desktop apps. You can pick up the updated Desktop Software v7.0 software here or here and find the new knowledge base articles below:
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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, February 14, 2012, 4:43 pm. | BlackBerry Desktop Software v7.0 B44 Officially Released for PCs | 6 comments |
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| Free vnPButils Utility Lets You Easily Sideload & Manage Apps on Your PlayBook Posted: 14 Feb 2012 01:29 PM PST @vnbb let us know about their latest BlackBerry utility called vnPButils. It sort of takes the role of their BlackBerry smartphone utility, vnBButils, and performs similar functions for your PlayBook. It allows you to easily sideload applications onto your BlackBerry PlayBook from your windows PC which DDPB has been letting you do for awhile. They also allow you to manage the applications installed on your PlayBook from your PC which allows you to list, check status, launch, terminate, or uninstall the app. It also lets you create BAR files from BDM backup files but I am not sure why you would want to do that. Check out vnBButils here from BBvietnam. This seems to be a work in progress and I have not tried all the features of the app but let us know what you think!
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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, February 14, 2012, 4:29 pm. | Free vnPButils Utility Lets You Easily Sideload & Manage Apps on Your PlayBook | 2 comments |
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| BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Launching Publicly on February 21st (after Presidents Day) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 11:15 AM PST
We told you last month that the PlayBook OS 2.0 was launching on February 17th but it looks like regular users will have to wait a tad longer. I have been hearing both the 17th and 21st dates for almost a month now from sources and more of them are pointing towards a February 21st launch date which is also what Lucas @N4BB is hearing. As far as we have been able to piece together the February 17th date was a peg on the calendar that RIM set in October of last year. That date never made sense to me since it is a Friday which would mean that RIM support would be very thin for the biggest PlayBook OS update since the device launch but RIM has never been predictable. That led to the next possible launch date which was the 20th. As many of you know the 20th is a national holiday in the US, Presidents Day, which means that many of RIM's largest customers and support personnel would once again be unavailable. That seems to be the reason RIM has decided to aim towards February 21st for this huge launch since February 17th would leave them with 3 days of limited support. I hope you all have a fun Tuesday planned with loads of "Check for Updates" button mashing! This is still not in any way a publicly confirmed launch date from RIM but many of you have been asking us for the latest update. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 14, 2012, 2:15 pm. | BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Launching Publicly on February 21st (after Presidents Day) | 8 comments |
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| Giveaway Winners: Easy Lock Pro – Slide up to unlock your phone Posted: 14 Feb 2012 09:26 AM PST
There are times where there is a need to keep our phone locked especially when we have it in our pockets or bag to avoid doing things that we dont want to do such as accidental calls. The BlackBerry lock button are pretty handy in such instances but may not always be the best method as these are physical buttons that are still vulnerable to such incidents. Now, the developers from Bulbera came up with this pretty app, Easy Lock Pro, which differs from the competition by getting you to slide UPWARDS instead if the usual left to right. Last week, we held a giveaway for this cool app and here are the lucky ones:
Congratulations to those who have won, I hope these apps would be useful for you. Thanks to the team at Bulbera for this amazing giveaway! For those who did not manage to snag a copy of this cool app, the Pro edition costs only US$0.99, so do head over and get it: Alternatively, the free LITE version can be found here: PS: Happy Valentines Day! If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Terrence T for ©BerryReview, February 14, 2012, 12:26 pm. | Giveaway Winners: Easy Lock Pro – Slide up to unlock your phone | 5 comments |
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| RIM Sees 6600 New Registered Developers in 11 Days! Posted: 14 Feb 2012 09:08 AM PST
Before going to bed last night Alec Saunders, RIM's head of Developer Relations, posted a tweet that impressed me. He was simply awestruck that they have registered 6600 new BlackBerry developers in 11 days. My guess is this is all from the hugely successful PlayBook promotion. Devs have been telling me that it is taking longer than usual to register as a dev in App World but RIM has been working overtime to get the registrations in and hopes things will return to normal after February 15th. They have also extended the deadline for the free PlayBooks to March. As Alec explained in a later tweet these PlayBooks are actually coming from an inventory of 25,000 that were earmarked for developers back in the Fall of last year. I just hope we get some great apps out of this promotion! If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, February 14, 2012, 12:08 pm. | RIM Sees 6600 New Registered Developers in 11 Days! | 4 comments |
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| Magmic Chronicles 10 Years of BlackBerry Development for 10th Birthday Posted: 14 Feb 2012 08:56 AM PST
Magmic just made me feel really old. They are celebrating their 10th anniversary/birthday and created a very cool infographic chronicling their history from 2002 to 2012. I remember playing their games back in 2003-04 and its really crazy to see how far they have come. Check out the infographic by clicking the image above or this link. Kudos to BBCool for spotting this! If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, February 14, 2012, 11:56 am. | Magmic Chronicles 10 Years of BlackBerry Development for 10th Birthday | Leave a comment |
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| BlackBerry Torch 9810 OS 7.1.0.258 Found Online Posted: 14 Feb 2012 08:08 AM PST
The OS 7.1 leaks continue this time with OS 7.1.0.258 for the BlackBerry Torch 9810. Its nice to see the 9810 still getting some love and hopefully this new OS update has some bonuses. Kudos to the N4BB team for scoring it! Download OS 7.1.0.258 for the BlackBerry Torch 9810 at: Warning: This OS will not install on any other BlackBerry besides the one mentioned above and is not an official release.If you do not know how to upgrade your BlackBerry OS please start by reading this step by step guide.Don't forget to delete the vendor.xml file located in c:program files>common files>research in motion>apploader to install it on a different carriers device. Don't forget our usual warnings: do not download and install these updates if you don't know what you're doing. Incorrect procedure or just bad luck could render your BlackBerry inoperative or unstable. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, February 14, 2012, 11:08 am. | BlackBerry Torch 9810 OS 7.1.0.258 Found Online | 2 comments |
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| Peep It Comes Out of Beta Letting You Read BBM Messages Without Others Knowing Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:12 AM PST
Quite a few reader were impressed when Peep It was launched in public beta letting users read BBM messages without sending a R or "read receipt" to the sender letting them know you read it. Peep It lets you read BBM messages without the other party knowing. If you do want them to get confirmation you can simply hit reply and then it will notify them of the view. Jason from Epic Applications let us know that Peep It is now out of beta and in both App World and Mobihand. You can pick up a free trial or purchase the full version for $2.99. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 14, 2012, 10:12 am. | Peep It Comes Out of Beta Letting You Read BBM Messages Without Others Knowing | One comment |
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| Free BBM Social Network Smoothie Updated to v2.0 Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:41 AM PST
It has been awhile since we last heard of Smoothie from Tafasa. In case you forgot it is a BBM Connected social network built on the BBM SDK that was launched about a year ago. It helps you find other BlackBerry users with similar interests, location, and other settings. They just released Smoothie 2.0 this week which brings multiple chat capabilities allowing you to be in multiple chats at the same time. They have also revamped their "Blender" process that helps you preview your match before you begin to chat and receiving chats that were recommended to you. You can check out the list of new features in Smoothie 2.0 below or simply pick it up free in App World.
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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 14, 2012, 9:41 am. | Free BBM Social Network Smoothie Updated to v2.0 | Leave a comment |
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| Love Spell Valentine’s Day Theme Free for a Limited Time Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:55 AM PST
Teresa let us know that MMMOOO is offering up a free Love Spell theme to celebrate Valentine's Day. The theme is not compatible with OS 7 devices but it does work on quite a few OS 4.5-6 devices. It is free for a week and is mostly based on the OS 6 base theme with lots of hearts everywhere. Enjoy and let us know what you think! If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 14, 2012, 8:55 am. | Love Spell Valentine’s Day Theme Free for a Limited Time | Leave a comment |
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| ShopBlackBerry Returns PlayBook Prices to $199 16GB, $249 32GB, & $299 64GB Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:22 AM PST
We told you yesterday that RIM had returned the ShopBlackBerry prices for the BlackBerry PlayBook to $299-$499 for the 16GB to 64GB models. Now Qwerty000000 pointed out to us that the prices are back to $199 for the 16GB model, $249 for the 32GB model, and $299 for the 64GB model. This time the sale is set to end on February 20th, 2012. I am not sure why RIM keeps on bouncing the prices all over the place. Either way its a great time to pick one of these up right before RIM upgrades them with PlayBook OS 2.0! Check out the BlackBerry PlayBook sale at ShopBlackBerry If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 14, 2012, 8:22 am. | ShopBlackBerry Returns PlayBook Prices to $199 16GB, $249 32GB, & $299 64GB | 4 comments |
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