Selasa, 31 Juli 2012

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Help Tiny Bird Avoid The Volcano On Your BlackBerry

Posted: 31 Jul 2012 02:23 AM PDT

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Tiny Bird from SolverLabs is hanging on the coat tails of the success of Tiny Wings on other platforms and similar games from back in the day. The game is available for the PlayBook and BlackBerry smartphones and has you sliding down hills to escape the scary storms. I am sure you have played similar games in the past but this one actually runs nicely on my 9900 and has some fun gameplay dynamics. Zach @CrackBerry also noticed that the latest update includes BBM integration for sharing your achievements which is a nice touch.

Tiny Bird is available in a free trial which limits you to the first four levels. After that you can purchase the full version for a relatively inexpensive $0.99 in App World.

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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, July 31, 2012, 5:23 am. | Help Tiny Bird Avoid The Volcano On Your BlackBerry | Leave a comment |


Type On Your PlayBook From Your PC With PC Keyboard

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 02:55 PM PDT

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I am still trying to wrap my head around this one but Daniel Bigham's latest app has a different take on keyboards for the PlayBook. What it does is allow you to type up text using your PC's keyboard which is automatically transferred to the PC Keyboard app on your PlayBook when it is running. You can then copy it to your clipboard and paste it into another app.

I am really hoping that some new SDKs allow Daniel to extend this to running even outside the app but it does work for now. Check out PC Keyboard for $0.99 in App World.

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, July 30, 2012, 5:55 pm. | Type On Your PlayBook From Your PC With PC Keyboard | Leave a comment |


Sencha Touch 2 Adds Support for BlackBerry 10 & Improves BlackBerry Support

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 01:35 PM PDT

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RIM's Naveenan M. announced on the DevBlog that Sencha has released an update to their Sencha Touch 2 Mobile JavaScript framework. This new update put out today adds better support for BlackBerry smartphones with touchscreen including the PlayBook. This update also allows you to develop for BlackBerry 10 with support for future BlackBerry 10 smartphones.

Either way if you have been looking for a JavaScript Framework for your BlackBerry 10 development you should definitely check out Sencha along with jQuery. You can find more details on the Sencha Touch 2 Mobile JavaScript Framework on their website or the BlackBerry DevBlog.  RIM plans on following up this announcement with a series of "tutorials, articles, best practices and samples so keep an eye out for them!

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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, July 30, 2012, 4:35 pm. | Sencha Touch 2 Adds Support for BlackBerry 10 & Improves BlackBerry Support | Leave a comment |


WordPress for BlackBerry v1.6.3 Released With Small Improvements

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 12:54 PM PDT

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The Automattic team working on WordPress for BlackBerry Smartphones just pushed out another small performance update this week. This is just a small jump from the previous v1.6.2 to v1.6.3. Obviously this mean it is mostly performance and bug fixes including these updates:

  • Added better support for stats
  • Added more helpful error messages
  • Reliability improvements

Check out the updated WordPress in App World

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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, July 30, 2012, 3:54 pm. | WordPress for BlackBerry v1.6.3 Released With Small Improvements | Leave a comment |


RIM Rumored To Be Completing Layoffs Next Week

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 12:48 PM PDT

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The Cantech Letter is reporting that they are hearing from sources that RIM is planning on completing this round of layoffs next week. Supposedly RIM is going to let go of the remaining 3,000 employees from the previously announced 5,000 layoffs. Supposedly this final section of the layoffs will happen on August 13th since RIM wants to complete the layoffs before the end of their second quarter on August 31st.

According to Cantech's source the RIM employees working on BlackBerry 10 are mostly safe along with those in enterprise sales. The areas seeing the biggest cuts are customer service, human resources, marketing, non-enterprise sales, and RIM's Global Repair Services. It will be really sad to see that many people no longer working at RIM but this will hopefully allow RIM to control costs with a headcount of 10,000 employees as they ramp up to their BlackBerry 10 launch.

We will keep you up to date as this develops.

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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, July 30, 2012, 3:48 pm. | RIM Rumored To Be Completing Layoffs Next Week | 6 comments |


Former RIM Exec Mike Kirkup Shares His Feelings on CTV

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 11:51 AM PDT

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Mike Kirkup made a name for himself at RIM awhile back when he was the Senior Director of Developer Relations. He left RIM awhile back as Alec Saunders took over the reigns of wooing developers to the BlackBerry platform. Kirkup is now the Director of Student Innovation at the University of Waterloo Velocity program and is still invested in the Waterloo startup community. Bla1ze at CrackBerry noticed that Kirkup sat down with CTV for an interview today to share his thoughs on RIM and what its current struggles mean for Waterloo.

Check out  the full video at CTV or below thanks to Bla1ze:

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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, July 30, 2012, 2:51 pm. | Former RIM Exec Mike Kirkup Shares His Feelings on CTV | Leave a comment |


Free Hebrew Bible for the BlackBerry PlayBook (Android)

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:55 AM PDT

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The PlayBook just got another benefit from its Android Player. I am not sure how many of you are interested in it due to it being in Hebrew but Ivri Applications has released the full Hebrew bible with a built in font. It lets you search across the whole bible from your PlayBook and actually works nicely.

Check out the Hebrew Bible free in App World

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, July 30, 2012, 9:55 am. | Free Hebrew Bible for the BlackBerry PlayBook (Android) | One comment |