Posts Tagged ‘BlackBerry’

Multiple Calendars – For People That Do (And Are Mobile)

Maybe it’s because I’m what would be regarded as a ‘power user’ – but I find calendars on my phone and online with Google very, very useful. What is a seemingly simple tool is enabled and ready to make magical things happen. A discussion that I raised with one of my BBM groups today was [...]

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BlackBerry 10 – Backups, Backups, Backups

Right, let’s cut to the chase. RIM – you’re current backup system for the PlayBook is inadequate. There, I got it off my chest. But it had to be said. As you can probably see from this blog – I like BlackBerry. It does what I want it to do most of the time. I [...]

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Get Ripple to work in Linux

As RIM plough forward and deliver a cascade of development tools – one of the key tools is the Ripple Emulator. The Ripple Emulator allows you to simulate a mobile device in Chrome or Chromium and debug it easily. It’s a great app for creating HTML5 apps. Unfortunately for us Linux users, we have had [...]

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10 BlackBerry Paper Cuts

  This last couple of years haven’t been the best for Research in Motion. No matter what they do, they seem to be attracting derision from all sides and seem unable to turn around the perception that they are a failing company in the eyes of US media. With the mis-fired launch of the PlayBook [...]

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From the BlackBerry!

Just putting in my first post using the official WordPress for Blackberry software. About time, too! Although only a beta version at the moment, it’s working nicely and I think that this will be one of my must have apps when i’m on the move!

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Get rid of that diagonal blue and white BlackBerry icon during a call

A few days ago – a weird square icon appeared in the middle of the top part of the screen on my BlackBerry. I knew that I’d pressed a button, but I couldn’t find it for the life of me. It would actually cover the call duration on the theme I’m using. It got to [...]

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