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PC KeyboardJune 28, 2012
It was a fun afternoon of app making.
I created a second app today called "PC Keyboard". It's for those times where you're sitting at your desk with your PlayBook and you have something of non-trivial length to type. You simply open the app, and then start typing on your PC keyboard. What you type is displayed on your PlayBook and copied into its clipboard so that when you're done typing, you flip back to the PlayBook app you were using and Paste.
Open on PlayBookJune 28, 2012
Last night I was viewing a video on a web page on my PC and Meredith came by and asked whether I could watch it on the PlayBook instead with headphones so as not to disturb people trying to sleep.
There have been other times when I wanted to go from viewing a web page on my PC to viewing it on my PlayBook, and wished it was as simple as pressing a button.
So, being the programmer I am, I made a PlayBook app to do that. As with some of recent apps like "Print" and "Send to PC", it ended up being a very simple tweak to existing code, so it took a total of 2 hours to make the app and submit it to App World. The hardest part was making the icon since I couldn't find any existing free icons that I liked for this app.
The app is called "Open on PlayBook", and hopefully it will be approved soon.
BB10: Rapid charge stand + BB10 dev alphaJune 28, 2012
I was looking for a convenient way to prop up my dev alpha while working on an app, since it's annoying to pick it up every time I run an app. As it turns out, the rapid charge stand for the PlayBook works perfectly -- you can set your dev alpha in the stand and it hold it upright. Obviously it doesn't charge it, but that wasn't the point :)
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