SNES Emulator on the PlayBook in Action!!!
I grew up playing SNES. It started with MarioWorld and MarioKart and moved into Super Punch Out, StarFox, Street Fighter 2, and UN Squadron. Needless to say, as soon as I found out this SNES emulator was available for PlayBook, I sprinted for my PC, PB, and USB cable to get the retro goodness rolling!…
How to add fonts to your BlackBerry smartphone (without an app)
For years, I was under the impression you could only install fonts with the assistance of an app. I recently found out that is not at all accurate. You simply need the a font in TrueType (.ttf) format. In this guide, for illustration purposes, I will be using the free (open source) ’Ubuntu-R’ font. *WARNING:…
Devs: RIM Details One of the Ways to Get Your App Featured in App World
DN pointed out to me that RIM slipped a little bit extra information in the previous tips we mentioned earlier today for developers to maximize their profits on App World. For awhile there has been a sort of unofficial way to submit your apps for consideration for RIM’s App World featured carousel. Now they have…
RIMs Tips for Animated BBM Avatars & BlackBerry Traffic Voice Guidance
This week RIM rolled out a new version 6.1 of BlackBerry Messenger along with an update to BlackBerry Traffic anytime now. One of the nice improvements to BBM was animated avatars but RIM did not give much guidance on what the optimal settings are for BBM at launch. They have thankfully followed up with a…
Where Do You Find Your BBM Animated Avatars? Check out BBM-Animated.com
RIM introduced a slick new feature in BBM 6.1 that was just released. It allows you to have animated BBM avatars (aka profile pictures). These avatars are GIF files but they need to follow certain specs. Jay pointed out to me that there is already a solid source of animated BBM avatars courtesy of…
How To: Factory Reset/UnBrick a BlackBerry PlayBook
With all of the PlayBooks floating around now after the “Mega-Sale”, it is important to know some of the basics in case something goes wrong. Whether we want to or not sometimes we need to Factory Reset our devices, and reload everything from scratch. Or worst case scenario we go to use our device and…
Want to add more storage to your rooted PlayBook? Here’s How!
Remember the teaser video floating around a few weeks ago with elTecnoBlog connecting a USB Drive to their PlayBook? Well now they have given a set of written instruction for all of the anxious rooters our there.
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…
