Step By Step Guide to Sideloading Apps on BlackBerry 10
As many of you may have noticed, a lot of our recent posts for popular apps involve sideloading. If you are unfamiliar with sideloading, it is taking a downloaded .BAR file, mainly an Android port or a beta copy of a new app and then installing it on your PlayBook or BlackBerry 10 device using…
Easily Gesture to Capitalize a Letter or Type a Number on BlackBerry 10
SLS pointed out an awesome keyboard shortcut to me today on BlackBerry 10. It allows you to easily capitalize a single letter or type a number with a quick gesture. To capitalize a letter you simply perform a swipe gesture from the shift button to the letter you wish to capitalize and voilà we have…
Two Useful Gestures in the BlackBerry 10 Calendar App
I have been using the BlackBerry 10 calendar app way more recently especially with its beautiful daily agenda and built in BlackBerry Hub access. I have learned of two useful gestures in the calendar app that I wanted to make sure everyone knew about. There are loads of useful features in the app including being…
Easily Type In Multiple Languages or Switch Keyboards on BlackBerry 10
One of our readers pointed out that we did not mention how easy BlackBerry 10 makes switching between languages or even typing in multiple languages. You can have up to three languages enabled at a time from the 33 supported languages on BlackBerry 10. BlackBerry even added a mode that lets you type in all…
Five Pro Tips for the BlackBerry Z10 Camera by JT White
This past week I have highlighted two of JT White’s gorgeous photo shoots taken with the BlackBerry Z10 camera in low light. The first was in black and white and the second showed off its capabilities in color. I asked Josh if he would be willing to share some of the tips he discovered for…
iCal4OL Tool Syncs Outlook with CalDAV & CardDAV Servers (Gmail Calendar & Contacts)
One of the HUGE shortcomings of Microsoft Outlook is its insistence to not support the hugely popular CardDAV and CalDAV formats for calendar, tasks, and contact sync. Instead Microsoft clings to their proprietary formats. While many BlackBerry 10 users have figured out how to sync their contacts and calendar with Gmail and other CalDAV/CardDAV services…
Automatically Sync Your BlackBerry 10 Pictures & Video With Box.net
One of the coolest integration features of BlackBerry 10 is how nicely it plays with cloud storage. I have been using Dropbox so far but Terrence pointed out to me that Box.net is offering a few more features on BlackBerry 10. The BlackBerry 10 Box.net client offers you the ability to sync your pictures and/or…
Finding Free Ringtones & Alarm Sounds for Your BlackBerry 10 Smartphone
One of the things that disappointed me about BlackBerry 10 was the extremely limited selection of preloaded ringtones and alarm tones. The lack of ringtones did not hurt as bad as only having three default alarm tones. First I thought I would port over the ringtones I had on BlackBerry 7 but that is for…