Shaosoft SearchIt Free for a Limited Time!
In case you have not heard of Shaosoft’s SearchIt app you may want to check it out now. SearchIt allows you to add additional search sources to Universal Search on BlackBerry OS 6 and OS 7 devices. It comes with a bunch of sites included like Amazon, CNN, Dictionary, Google Maps, IMDB, Thesaurus, and…
RIM Makes Cosmetic Changes to App World Website Product Pages
I am not sure exactly when RIM started rolling out this change but I did not notice it yesterday and it is not documented in RIM’s App World Storefront release notes. If you check out an App World app product page today you will notice a few small cosmetic changes that RIM made with the…
Free Walking Dead: Dead Reckoning Breaks Out on the PlayBook
AMC’s The Walking Dead: Dead Reckoning first started off as a comic book series and then turned into a AMC TV show. Michelle @CrackBerry noticed that AMC has now released a PlayBook app for the Walking Dead and released it free on App World. The app sort of reminds me of those old PC games…
RIM Hits 25 Million+ Global Social Media Fans
If there is one thing you could say about RIM’s interaction with their fans in the last few years is that they have become way more social. Two years ago you would have been shocked to see VPs and RIM employees taking part in forums and BerryReview comments. Now it has become commonplace for RIM…
Open Source Platformer Frogatto Coming to the PlayBook
We have some more details on that game that RIM was using to show off their BlackBerry Torch D-Pad gamepad with the PlayBook. The game is a open source platformer game called Frogatto. (thanks to Pelegri @RIM for pointing it out) According to the Frogatto website they have ported the game to the PlayBook thanks…
Pencil Camera Turns Your Pictures Into Art With Six Filters
Jeremy let us know about a cool new app in App World called Pencil Camera. The app by Eddy Liu is a port of his BlackBerry smartphone Pencil Camera app with what he calls “Tons of features” that are not available in the smartphone version. There are six different art filters that convert pictures you…
Files & Folders Bringing SugarSync Integration to the PlayBook
The popular third party PlayBook file manager, Files & Folders, has had integration with third party services like Box and DropBox added and now they are working on SugarSync. This is a huge deal for me since I find that SugarSync is way better served for my purposes than DropBox and others. Luis pointed out…
Dolphin Browser Makes its Way Back into App World for the PlayBook
We told you before that the popular Android Dolphin Browser was ported to the PlayBook though it was then pulled by the developer. It now seems like the developer Mobotap has once again put it in App World (This time without Handster doing it for them). The browser does need quite a bit of improvement…
