Evernote Released For PlayBook

Evernote has been around for quite some time now on BlackBerry devices. Now its available to download on the PlayBook.

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Evernote turns your BlackBerry® Playbook™ into an extension of your brain.

This award winning app lets you remember and recall anything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as everything instantly synchronizes from your BlackBerry® phone or tablet and to your Mac or PC.

Easily search for notes created on your desktop or web using your BlackBerry® devices. Whether from last week or last year, all your memories are in one place, available whenever you need them. You can even search for printed or handwritten text within your snapshots – great for business cards, whiteboards, and wine labels.

How to use Evernote

There are tons of ways to use Evernote for your personal and professional life. Here are some ideas:
– For research and class notes
– For client and sales meetings
– To stay in-sync with your desktop notes, web clips, and files
– To snap photos of whiteboards and business cards
– As part of your GTD system to help you stay organized
– To record quick voice memos

In short, to remember everything.

Evernote for BlackBerry® Playbook™ works best when used together with our downloadable versions for BlackBerry® phone, Windows and Mac. Best part: it s free!

Download it here

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BlackBerry Desktop Software For Mac v2.2.0 now available for download in the BlackBerry Beta Zone

After years of neglecting their Mac user baser, RIM seems to now be putting a lot more attention into making sure the BlackBerry tools available to Windows users are now also available to Mac users. As such, another update to BlackBerry Desktop Software For Mac is now available in the BlackBerry Beta Zone. This updates the currently available v2.1.2 to v2.2.. If you have a BlackBerry Beta Zone account and are signed up for the Desktop Software program you can now login and grab the download. Note however, this version is only available to North American users currently.

More info available in the BlackBerry Beta Zone

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ePhone Anywhere now allows free video and voice calls between PlayBook, PC and Mac users

So last week, we mentioned an alternative to Video Chat on your PlayBook called ePhone. The service extended calls to nearly 60 countries, with free voice and video calling between ePhone users and monthly allotment of minutes for contacting those without ePhone. Check out more details here. Today, they made an announcement that extended their service even further; allowing people to make and receive calls from their Macs and PCs. This extension is – ePhone Anywhere, which is rather fitting.

Their offering now includes:

ePhone: Allows PC and Mac users to make and receive free local and long distance calls to the world for just $20/year, from any computer in the world. No software to install.

ePhone for PlayBook: The PlayBook App that allows you to make and receive free local and long distance calls to the world. For just $20/year, all from your PlayBook.

ePhone Anywhere: This includes the PlayBook App and PC & Mac combined for $30/year.

Many of you have requested the ability to place and receive calls from your PC & Mac computers. Well… we have listened and done one better, it’s called ePhone Anywhere. With ePhone Anywhere, you can make and receive calls from your ePhone PlayBook App AND from any computer in the world, by simply logging into www.comwave.net/ephone. ePhone Anywhere is just $10 more than our regular ePhone and as always, you get your own phone number and free local and long distance calling to 57 countries for a full year.

And more good news… if you don’t own a PlayBook, now ePhone is for you too. For just $20/year, anyone anywhere in the world can use ePhone to make and receive calls from their computer. So spread the word and tell your friends. Video calling is also supported between all ePhone users for free.

Still being in beta, Comwave has acknowledged a known issue in which phonebook entries which are not being saved as requested. They gave a resolution ETA of 1 to 2 weeks. Remember that they give a 3 day free trial, and 100 minutes, to play with before you decide if ePhone is for you.

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AT&T to soon begin revoking unlimited data from jailbreak hotspot users

AT&T confirmed to BGR that it will soon begin revoking unlimited data plans from jailbroken iPhone users and other smartphone users who utilize unauthorized tethering and mobile hotspot solutions. Following reports from earlier this year, AT&T on Thursday confirmed that it will remove grandfathered unlimited data plans from accounts belonging to users who tether or use unsanctioned mobile hotspot apps without a tethering plan, which is expressly prohibited by AT&T according to its terms and conditions. “Earlier this year, we began sending letters, emails, and text messages to a small number of smartphone customers who use their devices for tethering but aren’t on our required tethering plan. Our goal here is fairness for all of our customers,” an AT&T spokesperson told BGR via email. The letter outlines three choices for customers who had been making use of unauthorized tethering solutions, one of which is “Do nothing and we’ll go ahead and add the tethering plan on their behalf — after the dated noted in their customer notification.” According to earlier reports, offending users will automatically be bumped to AT&T’s more recent tiered data plan, which affords 2GB of smartphone data and 2GB of tethering data for $45 each month compared to AT&T’s old unlimited smartphone data plan, which costs $30 each month but does not include tethering. A new report from 9to5 Mac claims that users will begin losing unlimited plans as soon as August 11th, but AT&T stated that the policy enforcement date varies depending on when the offending subscriber was sent the notification letter. AT&T’s full statement follows below.

 

Earlier this year, we began sending letters, emails, and text messages to a small number of smartphone customers who use their devices for tethering but aren’t on our required tethering plan. Our goal here is fairness for all of our customers. (This impacts a only small percentage of our smartphone customer base.)

The letters outline three choices:

1. Stop tethering and keep their current plan (including grandfathered unlimited plan)
2. Proactively call AT&T or visit our stores and move to the required tethering plan
3. Do nothing and we’ll go ahead and add the tethering plan on their behalf — after the dated noted in their customer notification

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AT&T may start throttling data speeds in October

AT&T will begin to throttle data speeds during the first week of October, 9to5 Mac reported on Thursday. The carrier could move to throttle the data speeds of its biggest data users in an effort to ensure network stability for its first LTE devices, which are expected to launch later this year. It remains unclear how low AT&T will knock the throughput down to, but 9to5 Mac says Virgin currently forces data hogs down to 256Kbps until the next billing cycle after they use more than 2.5GB. T-Mobile also throttles its data speeds after users go over their monthly 5GB “unlimited” cap. The move should actually be beneficial for most AT&T customers looking for stable performance and will only affect those who use much more data than the average customer according to the report.

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What the Android App Player means for BlackBerry

 

Two nights ago, I installed the leaked Android App Player on to my BlackBerry PlayBook. It was an arduous process that involved several hours of researching, finding bad or poorly worded instructions, and downloading hundreds of megabytes worth of SDK’s (note the plural) and a JRE and a JDK and this and that. That’s a lot of work to install a resource-hogging, semi-functional application. Nevertheless I am amazed.

I am amazed, not necessarily at the application itself, but the ideas it represents. The first is the more apparent of the two. The Android App Player doesn’t just emulate or represent the Android operating system. It is the Android operating system. Android exists as a virtual machine on the PlayBook tablet. Most people don’t run virtual machines on their home computers, let alone a “mere” tablet.

BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac updated to v2.1.1.7

Research in Motion is rolling out updates left and right, with Facebook for BlackBerry, foursquare for BlackBerry, official instant messaging apps, and BlackBerry Travel updates all available in the last week. Today is the day for all of you Mac users out there, as BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac was just updated to v2.1.1.7 . You can grab the update by heading to the website at the link below, or you can open up Desktop Manager and check for updates to get the download prompt. Thanks for the tip Mike M!

Download Desktop Manager for Mac.

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Workaround for WiFi file sharing on the BlackBerry PlayBook

The latest update for the BlackBerry PlayBook brought us performance updates and fun new features, like pinch-to-zoom video. The update has also caused a small problem: WiFi file sharing is not working. After enabling the WiFi file sharing feature on the PlayBook, a person would normally find the name of the PlayBook in a list of networked devices. Indeed even now, that name should be in the list. However connecting to that named device is causing problems.

Never fear; There’s a quick and easy workaround to this problem. Oddly enough, this is the preferred method of connecting, described in this BlackBerry Knowledge Base article. First, you’ll need the IP address of your PlayBook. Open the PlayBook’s settings by tapping the Gear icon in the upper right of the Status Ribbon. Select the About tab, and then select Network from the drop-down menu. You want the IPv4 address, which will probably be something like 192.168.x.x

• Windows XP. Use the Windows Key-R combination to open the run menu. Type \192.xxx.x.x That’s backslash-backslash your-playbooks-ip For example, I would type \192.168.1.2
• Windows Vista, Windows 7: Same thing, but you can also type that in the bar at the bottom of the Start menu
• Mac: “[S]elect Go -> Connect to Server… and type smb://127.1.1.1 (where 127.1.1.1 should be replaced with the actual IP address of the BlackBerry PlayBook)”

Chances are, this bug will be fixed quite shortly, rendering this article moot. In the meantime, it’s quite easy to get back up and running with the PlayBook’s WiFi File sharing.

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Updated: BlackBerry Desktop Software For Mac Version 2.1 Official User Guide & Release Notes

Following up the user guide and release notes post for version 6.1 of the BlackBerry Desktop Software for PC, RIM also updated the user guide and release notes for the latest update to the Mac version. The biggest feature addition for version 2.1 of the Desktop Software for Mac is support for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Here’s the changelog:

• Tablet Support – Sync and import your media files with the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet.
• General – Provides fixes and improvements to the features.

This version of the Desktop Software for Mac doesn’t include as many changes as the PC version but there are still a good few. As with the PC version’s docs, I’ve gone ahead and included both the updated user guide and release notes for version 2.1 of the Desktop Software for Mac below.

BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac Version 2.1 User Guide http://www.scribd.com/embeds/59520042/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list
BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac Version 2.1 b24 Release Noteshttp://www.scribd.com/embeds/59520266/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list
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BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac v2.1 now available!

Good news today for BlackBerry + Mac users, especially those of you who own a BlackBerry PlayBook and Mac. RIM has officially released  BlackBerry Desktop Software v2.1 for Mac which now supports the RIM tablet. Here’s the word from RIM:

BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac v2.1 includes media sync support for the BlackBerry PlayBook. In addition to being able to drag and drop files directly to BlackBerry PlayBook over USB or Wi-Fi, you can now use Desktop Software for Mac to sync music, photos and videos with iTunes and iPhoto over USB. Make sure to get your copy at www.blackberry.com/mac!

That’s it. What are you waiting for? Go download it at the link below.

Download Desktop Manager for Mac v2.1

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