The installer that comes with the Huawei E160 3G USB stick crashes on Snow Leapord, follow these steps to get your 3G Pay-as-you-go dongle up and running without o2’s buggy utility app.

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I had some discussion on Twitter this week about the secret connection string that allows BlackBerry applications to use Rim’s BIS-B transport for network connections – I couldn’t put my point across in a tweet so here’s the gist.

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NordvästLibrary is a growing collection of components you can use in your BlackBerry applications. There are two versions of the library; one for pre-OS5.0 API and another for post-OS5.0 API.

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I’m working on a project that’s going to be using the 5.0 api so sat down this weekend and wrapped up the screen transition logic into a nice simple class (as suggested here).

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Update to bUnit which was a quick port I did of JMUnit a few years ago. BUnit2 has taken the old version and polished it to make it a little slicker, it should also be more useable/useful.

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The BlackBerry API for OS 5.0 (beta) introduces the ability to use slick screen transitions (Viigo has had this for a while) but for some reason both examples from Rim use needlessly complex logic that is guaranteed to confuse newer BlackBerry developers, below is a very simple application that doesn’t make use of Runnable/Threads.

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I’ve been working on-site with a client who has a problem with a BlackBerry application that only appears on hardware and not in the simulator. Trying to find the cause of the issue meant we had to create multiple test applications to narrow it down, this also meant we had to repeatedly load the app onto a device which was taking around five minutes each time, luckily I remembered a little trick an old colleague showed me that I’ve not used for a while.

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Yahoo! bought Flickr a while back and mercifully left it pretty much alone until now, if you’re a Flickr (and Firefox) user and don’t want the new Yahoo! logo sullying your homepage just add this little Greasemonkey script:

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Using similar logic to the Tooltip and Loading classes it’s easy to have a splash screen for your application without having to use PopupScreens, multiple threads or any other complicated workarounds we’ve seen elsewhere.

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We’ve just submitted our first consumer application to BlackBerry for release on AppWorld. LittleChirp does one thing but it does it very well – it lets you update your Twitter status. If the submission process goes smoothly it should be available within a couple of weeks.

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