SourceCode: BlackBerry PlayBook - A Retrospective

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The BlackBerry PlayBook's future was effectively ended last week with the news that BB10 OS, the current operating system running on the new smartphones, would not make it to the company's two-year old tablet. For owners of these 7-inch devices, this means that they are stuck with the QNX-based BlackBerry OS 2.0 OS, with little hope of seeing BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) or any new features applications moving forward.

Click to read more ...

Canada Day apps to focus on events and entertainment

Happy Canada Day! Here are some helpful apps to keep track of the day's events as well as to celebrate all things Canadian this long weekend.

Click to read more ...

BB10 OS not coming to BlackBerry PlayBook

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Despite earlier reports that the BlackBerry 10 OS, now running on the Z10 and Q10 smrtphones, would breathe new life into the PlayBook tablet, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins has confirmed that the company will not pursue porting BB10 for the PlayBook. 

This is bad news for users of the 7-inch tablet who have been holding out for a feature refresh as well as a more unified experience across BlackBerry devices. The writing has been on the wall for the PlayBook after Heins said there was no future in tablets. The PlayBook was also a remant of RIM's 'old regime', brought to market in the dark days before Heins took over the reins of the troubled company.

Click to read more ...

NoteSuite: Not your typical productivity/note-taking app

Cloud-based note-taking tools are great places to store all of those to-do lists, clipped Web pages, random notes, and the like. But what if the server is down, you lost your subscription, or worse, the service shuts down? That is where Theory.io’s NoteSuite for the iPad and Mac OS X comes in.

It is a Jack of all trades note-taking tool that can take on the aforementioned tasks as well as read, annotate, and search PDF and MS Office files. What makes it better is it doesn’t need a subscription and all the data is saved on the iPad or the computer and using the cloud is mostly for syncing and back up instead of it being the primary storage. This means you will always have your files with you. Normally priced at $4.99, NoteSuite for iPad comes at a special introductory price of $1.99 until July 15; while NoteSuite for Mac comes at an introductory price of $4.99 until July 15 as well but is normally priced at $9.99