Want to Downgrade Your Playbook OS? Here’s How!
Scrid2000 over at OSBB has posted a great tutorial on how to downgrade your playbook OS using a local copy. Anyone who has been following the whole DingleBerry/rooting scene that has come to up in the past few weeks will know that the last 2 patches by RIM has blocked the root. These steps let…
Devs: PhoneGap 1.3 & New WebWorks NFC Extension Released
The popular PhoneGap cross platform web app solution (recently acquired by Adobe) was updated to v1.3 this week. The new update brings a nice bit of growth with BlackBerry support since RIM is contributing directly to PhoneGap. This new version of PhoneGap also brings support for BlackBerry development on Mac OSX. The change log for…
Devs: RIM Posts Tutorial For Porting WebOS Apps to BlackBerry WebWorks
Josep reminded me about a tip we got that RIM had posted a tutorial explaining to webOS developers who to port their web apps to the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK. There is nothing really fascinating here but it is interesting to see RIM going after the different developer bases. WebOS made some serious headway in terms…
Giveaway: Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 Premium (Two Copies)
A while back, Adobe Systems announced that they were giving away free licenses to their Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 Premium to all DevCon Asia 2011, Singapore, attendees. Well, in case you’ve missed the event and yearning for a license to the software, fear not! We have something here to make your day!
Devs: Ripple Emulator v0.9.1 Beta Released – Goes Standalone
Awhile back RIM acquired Ripple to up their BlackBerry WebWorks testing and development tools. They have been pretty quiet releasing updates here and there and their latest is Ripple Emulator v0.9.1 beta for Windows and Mac. This new version is no longer a Chrome Plugin and is rather a standalone app. It also adds the…
BlackBerry PlayBook Native SDK 2.0 Beta 2 Now Available
Devs get your engines started. RIM has just rolled out a Native SDK 2.0 beta update to beta 2. It adds some cool new features like AIR Native Extension support which should lead to some quasi AIR+Native apps. This new Native SDK has a corresponding runtime of 2.0.0.6149 which is exactly the same as the…
No Update to PlayBook OS 2.0.0.6149 Dev Beta? Try This URL
Normally this would just be a blip on the radar but I have been getting quite a few readers asking me about this today. We told you yesterday that RIM had started to roll out BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0.0.6149 of their developer preview beta. Not everybody was seeing the update and it turns out there…
BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0.0.6149 Developer Beta Brings Loads of Goodies!
We are just starting to play with the latest BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0.0.6149 developer beta and you can see that RIM is starting to make some nice changes. My buddy Shahriyar pointed out to me that it supports Bluetooth headsets along with auto correct outside of bridge. He also noticed that it scores a 308…