App Engine Community Update

One of the best things about App Engine is our lively developer community. This week, we’re officially moving technical and development questions to Stack Overflow and retiring the language-specific App Engine Google groups. With this week’s move, we wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the best ways to engage with the community.

Technical & Development Questions
For technical and development questions big and small, add the google-app-engine tag to your App Engine questions on Stack Overflow. You can also join our hangouts or office hours to talk directly with App Engine team members.

Google+
Many community and team members are active on Google+, using the #appengine hashtag. Our weekly community updates and chats with App Engine community and team members are a great source of tips and tricks and to learn more about what our community members are up to.

Google Groups
For general discussion about the platform, use the Google App Engine group.

Happy coding!

- Posted by the App Engine Team

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How To Update Your Blackberry OS Simplified

How to update your blackberry OS

One common task that smartphone owners would always like to do issue updating of new operating system for their devices.

Blackberry device owners can update their device by following the step by step guide below. Please make sure you back up your device before doing this.

Needed Items

1. Internet Connection

2. A computer

3. Blackberry Desktop Manager software installed on the computer

4. Connection cable

5. New operating system higher than the one installed on your device.

Assuming you have all needed items, proceed as detailed below.

Step 1

Download the blackberry desktop manager onto your computer and install it. Once installed, launch it

Step 2

Plug in your device into the computer and let it install the drivers needed for your desktop manager to identify your phone.

Step 3

Download the new Operating System you want on your phone to the computer and install it.

Step 4

Once you have installed the new OS into your computer, go to this folder: local disk C:/program files/Common files/Research In Motion/App Loader

Once in this folder, delete the file Vendor.xml file completely from your computer and recycle bin.

Step 5

Once its deleted, plug in your phone into the computer again. Once plugged in, you will be notified of an OS update. Click Update now for the update process to begin.

Please DO NOT DISCONNECT your DEVICE when doing this as it could brick your device if you do.

Step 6

When done, your device will reboot and it would be updated.

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Sony Xperia SP Xperia T Xperia TX and Xperia V to get Android 4 3 update in January

The owners of Sony Xperia SP, Xperia T, Xperia TX and Xperia V will soon receive the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean OS update, according to Sonys official announcement.

The information came from Sony Mobile News Twitter account, which confirms the update to reach the mentioned handsets by the end of January or in early February. "We hear you re: JB 4.3 for Xperia T, TX, V, SP - were making final preps & will start rolling from end Jan / early Feb," states the Tweet.

These four mid-range smartphones by Sony will be jumping directly from Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS to 4.3, missing out the 4.2 OS version.

The Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update will hit different countries, regions and carriers by different times. It will bring some new features and tweaks to the handsets, including the Bluetooth Smart Ready, Dial-Pad Autocomplete, restricted profiles and few more features, the details of which can be seen here.

Last month Sony also rolled out the 4.3 Jelly Bean OS to its premium handset models - Sony Xperia Z1 and Xperia Z Ultra.

Some of the changes included in 4.3 Jelly Bean for the above two phones were UI optimisation for Project Butter performance; redesigned native apps (messaging, MyXperia, Smart Connect, Small apps, TrackID, Sony Select among others) and Sonys media apps (Walkman, Album and Movies) are now integrated with a more intuitive UI, offering access to both local and cloud content.

Sony Xperia News has further tweeted that the firm is currently rolling out Android 4.2 Jelly Bean SO version to its Xperia L handsets. The updates would bring certain performance, camera improvements and some home screen UI changes. Details can be seen here.

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iOS 7 1 update to fix random home screen crash issue

Some users of iOS 7 have been reporting a bug where the home screen randomly crashes, and for them, Apple said that a new version of the OS (presumably iOS 7.1 which in beta is being seeded to developers), will feature a fix for the issue. "We have a fix in an upcoming software update for a bug that can occasionally cause a home screen crash."

An Apple spokesperson made the statement to Mashable. The problem has been reported by users across the rank and file of the Apple diaspora. The bug causes random reboots of the screen, and depending on the colour of the iPhone, the home screen crashes and goes either white or goes completely black. iPhones running the iOS version 7 are susceptible to the crashes. Some phones have been reported to be affected if the battery percentage falls below 30.

Currently, Apple is testing the iOS 7.1 beta 4 version. It is rumoured to be released in March. The new version might include, according to speculations, a bolder text frame, darker background theme for the keyboard and help fix issues related to the memory and also the random reboots.

A recent survey even found that 79 percent of iPhone users visiting the iTunes store were using iOS 7. While exact data on the number of users experiencing these kind of death screens is not obtained yet, it could expose a very big chunk of the users vulnerable to the problem. Apple has kept that factor in mind, perhaps at top priority, given their brief release about the new iOS version

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iPhone 3 1 Update

Last Wednesday’s iPod/iTunes lovefest marked the introduction of the iPhone 3.1 update. I installed it on my iPhone 3GS without a problem though the process was very time-consuming. Figure on at least an hour to get this done. Of course it’s completely automatic: connect your iPhone to your Mac, and when iTunes launches click on the iPhone icon at the left, then Check for Updates. Then go do something else, because you don’t want to mess with the computer while the update is being done.

Keeping in mind that this is a free update*, you get a lot for your money. Apple has a list of the improvements but here’s the Executive Summary:

• Genius recommendations for Apps
• Genius Mixes
• Download ringtones
• Organize Apps via iTunes
• More flexible synching of music etc.
• Remotely lock the iPhone in case you lose it
• Voice Control now works with Bluetooth headsets

I’d get a copy of iTunes 9 before you do this (in fact, I think you have to). That’s free too. Here’s the link.

* “Free” means “free if you have an iPhone, $4.95 if you have an iPod Touch.”

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