September 17th in Desktop Software, Developers, News, Software, Tutorials by . 5 comments .

BB10, WebWorks, and Linux – Setting your system up for BlackBerry Development

I intend this blog post to be the first of two, three, or even four posts detailing my personal BlackBerry 10 WebWorks development in Linux; I hope these posts will help other people decide to create BlackBerry 10 WebWorks in Linux, or at least learn a little something interesting. This …

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May 18th in Desktop Software, Software by . no comment .

Desktop Software 7.1 In Beta Zone with Dev Alpha and PB 2.0.1 Support

RIM let developers know that this version was coming at BB10 Jam, because DM 7 doesn’t detect the Developer Alpha device. Desktop Software 7.1 has the following updates: With BlackBerry Desktop Software 7.1, you can:  Add a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet that has BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0.1 or later installed …

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May 6th in Desktop Software by . no comment .

Manage your Playbook Apps Easily with Playbook App Manager!

I saw this on Twitter this morning, and after checking it out I thought it was pretty cool! Not only does it let you see all the installed apps on your PlayBook or your Dev Alpha device, it also lets you uninstall or force close (terminate) them, or install additional …

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January 2nd in BlackBerry Apps, Desktop Software, News, Opinion, OSBB Community, Software by . 1 comment .

Back up and restore to/from your SD card in OS7 with Device Switch

Backups, backups, backups. Probably one of the most important things we need to do with our Blackbery. How you backup your device information is up to you. RIM offers several options for you to save all that precious information that you store on your phone; Desktop Manager, Blackberry Protect and …

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December 29th in Desktop Software, News, OSBB Community, Playbook, PlayBook OS Update by . 61 comments .

How to downgrade your Playbook OS using a local copy

PLEASE NOTE! This method DOES NOT work to downgrade your PlayBook OS down from the Official OS2 2.0.0.7971!!! People following the rooting of the Playbook probably know that the two latest OS releases block Dingleberry and prevent a root. Chris Wade (one of the creators of Dingleberry) gave instructions on …

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November 21st in Desktop Software by . 16 comments .

Leaked BlackBerry Desktop Software 7.0.0.32 – No Keycode Needed

Some of the OSBB members got an email this morning letting them know that a new BlackBerry Desktop Software was available for download for PC users in the Beta Zone. The email is a bit late,  as the new Desktop Software has been available since the 18th, but we can …

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