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RIM says “Would you like a password hint?”

It would appear that RIM is planning to provide end-users with a mechanism to remember their passwords.  According to patent application 20090307498, RIM proposes to allow a user to store his password with unique version data to help him remember it later.  As per the patent application, the version data will be in the form [...]

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Kiss your BlackBerry spyware goodbye

I have released the latest version of Kisses.  I promised everyone in my Hack In The Box presentation that I would release newer versions of the toolkit Bugs & Kisses.  Today, I hopefully deliver on that promise.  As far as I’m aware, this tool is the first of its kind to be offered to BlackBerry [...]

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• A quick and easy method to read an InputStream to a byte array is available in the IOUtilities class of the BlackBerry API.  I didn't check if this is available pre 4.6 or not, but it does exist in 4.6 To read an InputStream directly to a byte array you can do something like this: FileConnector fconn = (FileConnector)Connector.open("testfile.txt"); InputStream inStream = fconn.openInputStream(); byte[] byteData = IOUtilities.streamToBytes(inStream); #
• I released my first commercial application for the BlackBerry a few days ago. It's called BlackBall and is an application that allows you to filter or block incoming calls based on a specific blacklist that you maintain. It's on an introductory offer at $0.99 until the end of January 2010, so check it out and grab a copy if you find it useful. #