We often link to our good friend Jeff Bacon as he’s been a contributor to BlackBerryCool, as well as a BlackBerry developer for years. In a recent post on his personal blog, he details some common sense things RIM could do to make the PlayBook NDK setup process simpler. RIM has a long history of making the setup process and developer environment needlessly complicated, and it’s posts like this that should be listened to.
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Augmented Reality browser Wikitude has been updated to version 6.0.13 on BlackBerry App World. Augmented Reality takes advantage of the GPS, magnetometer and camera found in BlackBerry 7 devices to show all sorts of content displayed through your phone’s screen on specific locations.
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At the BlackBerry Developer Conference this year we got a more in-depth look at BBX – the future of the BlackBerry platform. During the conference, we learned that HTML5 will be one of the programming languages that RIM will focus on and support. Web development gives you the benefit of deploying on multiple platforms and while it may not be the best route for gaming (better to use native development kit), it will certainly be a good language to start with as your first foray into BlackBerry development going forward. So do you want to learn web dev? Try TreeHouse.
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Xtreme Labs is a development shop which has a venture capital wing called Extreme Venture Partners. BlackBerry users may recognize some of Xtreme Labs’ handy work with app such as Fixmo, Unify4Life, and others. Exteme Venture Partners has announced a new year of ExtremeU, an accelerator-type program that provides seed funding and mentorship to startups.
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FlightTrack is a BlackBerry app that has been updated with a revamped UI and several new features. The app is just what the name says it is: a flight tracking app. The app tracks a variety of aspects around your domestic and international flights with real-time updates and live flight tracking maps. FlightTrack gives you updates on gates, delays and cancellations too.
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RIM has released another free premium app in the wake of the big October BlackBerry service outage. Vlingo is a high-end voice command app that normally retails for $19.99.
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