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20Apr/110

Introducing Peak. A BaseCamp app for BlackBerry

Keep track of your 37Signals BaseCamp projects while on the go with Peak on your BlackBerry. Manage your to-do lists, milestones, messages and even get an outline of all tasks assigned to you!

Check out the official Peak page for more information.

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19Oct/100

Getting Your RIM Signing Keys Onto Your Mac

An issue I had was that because you have to push your code up to the device you have to have your signing keys installed. Well I have these on my Windows partition, but not on my Mac side. Knowing it’s possible to move your signing keys from one PC to another, I figured it must be possible to transfer these to my Mac partition. The question I had was, “where do these files go?!”

Well after fiddling around for a while I’ve cracked it.

Right click on the Eclipse.app file and go to “show package contents”


Next navigate into Contents, Mac OS, Applications, BBEclipse, Plugins, net.rim.ejde, vmTools and paste your files in here. Now you can continue to use the same signing keys you paid for originally.
Hope this helps!
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19Oct/100

Developing BlackBerry Apps On A Mac Finally Possible?

RIM recently released a plugin that works with Eclipse on the Mac OS. This makes me quite happy, as I love my mac, and would much prefer to do my iPhone and BB dev on one system. I plan on playing around with this for the next few weeks and I’ll let you know my thoughts.
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13Oct/100

How to calculate the distance between two lat/lon points on the blackberry

I have posted a code snippet to my snipplr account. Check it out here If you have any recommendations on how to make it faster/more efficient I'd love to hear it.
Yes, I realize that this won't work with j2me, but RIM has implemented some good helper classes to make this calculation much easier.
This calculation uses the Haversine formula.
14Jul/100

Now Accepting Applications For My Latest BlackBerry Utility, Toller!

Hey folks! I've finally reached the beta stage for my latest BlackBerry app, Toller. Maybe you'd like to know a little more about this app? Well it's an app that allows you to be more productive.

One of the biggest productivity killers is phone calls. It will force you to lose the train of thought you were on. Studies say that a 5 minute phone call can waste 45 minutes of your day! (It does take time to remember what you were doing, where you were etc.). So what this app does is it blocks "unwanted" calls.

Now, an "unwanted" call can depend on a few different factors. Time of day, who's calling, if you're busy. Well, that's where Toller comes in. This app works by checking your BlackBerry Calendar to see if you're currently "busy". If you are then the app will block the call and do 1 of 2 things. If the person is calling from their mobile phone it will send that person a text message telling them you're busy, and when they can call back. If they're calling from another kind of number it will send that person an email telling them you're busy and when they can call back.

As I said earlier, I've finally reached the Beta stage, and I need some kind people to test it for me. If you're one of those kind people then head on over to my Toller Beta Application page and fill out the form. I'll get back to you ASAP, promise.

/R