How to Access the BlackBerry 10 Engineering Screen
I was not brave enough to be the first person to post about how to access the BlackBerry 10 engineering screen (EScreen) when it was first discovered by users. Now that my buddy Bla1ze has broken the ice (thanks to the help of @nerdtalker, @N301DQ and makaveli86) I thought I would take the plunge….
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…
More Details On BlackBerry Balance For BB10
The Inside BlackBerry For Business Blog has published some more detailed information on Balance for BB10 in an article titled “Balancing Work and Personal Life with BlackBerry 10: The Guide for Business Professionals and IT Administrators”. Specific details on keeping work files separate, separate wallpapers, specific controls for network routing on work and personal sides,…
BlackBerry Balance On BB10: Separate, Simultaneously-Active Profiles For Work And Play
Yesterday I had a hands-on demo of some of the newest features of BB10. Jeff Gadway, Senior Brand & Marketing Communications Manager at Research In Motion, showed off some of the changes implemented since BlackBerry World, including an updated BlackBerry Balance for BB10. BlackBerry Balance, if you’re not familiar with the product, is RIM’s enterprise…
RIM Licenses exFAT From Microsoft
Microsoft announced in a press release today that they have signed a licensing agreement with RIM allowing the beleaguered BlackBerry maker “broad access” to the exFAT file system for “certain BlackBerry devices”. Hopefully this is for the coming BB10 launch devices, as this would greatly improve their media-handling capability and further dispel rumors that RIM’s…
Tip: SideLoad PlayBook Apps Using LocalBar2 Without a Proxy
Originally, a PC was required in order to sideload apps onto the PlayBook. The first release of LocalBar was created to give users the ability to sideload apps ‘locally. The PlayBook could now sideload apps onto itself. Using LocalBar, the requirement for a PC was gone. RIM then blocked that feature. The PlayBook can no longer…
BlackBerry 10 Jam Live Blog
Here we go, folks, stay tuned and hit that F5 key! Alec Saunders music video, “The Waiting Is The Hardest Part.” Brilliant. “Bring your code to the BlackBerry platform. Don’t be one of the huddled masses eking out a living from AdSense. In the last fiscal year, the number of app vendors in BlackBerry up…
LinBerry Hopes to Make it Easier to Use Your BlackBerry on Linux
Over the years Barry by NetDirect has been my go to solution for using my BlackBerry with Linux. It was worth it just for charging your BlackBerry at a faster rate. Now it seems like there is another alternative called LinBerry that I am guessing is based off Barry but makes things a little bit…