Developer Spotlight: From A Themer’s Perspective Part 2
Posted on: October 26th, 2012 by Gage Castillo No Comments

Before I get into our developer spotlight of the day, I wanted to address some issues and talk that has been surrounding this series since our first entry posted last week. There has been claims that this series is a “drag for attention”, and that it is in the BlackBerry’s fan base best interest to just move on from these types of articles. Another claim was that we are aiming to hurt RIM’s reputation with the posts of these articles. So let’s make this clear, SliceoftheNet does not post any content that the writer is not passionate about, we do not aim to profit off readership period. As the owner of SliceoftheNet, I am an avid BlackBerry fan, who is excited for what the future holds for BlackBerry and I am in this for the long haul, despite what decisions RIM makes for the platform. It simply comes down to this, if you don’t like what we are posting, please feel free to remove us from your bookmarks and social feeds. Finally, I want to thank our own Scott Burns for making this series happen! Without him, I wouldn’t be doing this. Thank you Scott!

Todays Developer spotlight falls on a Theme dev best known by the name of Mobster Mobile Designs, who surprisingly to my own experience has been a very pleasant and fun person to converse with. I recently was acquainted with Jennifer over certain tweets with mutual friends, I couldn’t help being drawn to the positive energy she gives off when she tweets, It was a no brainer to follow her! It wasn’t until recently, I made the connection with the work she has done on the Theme dev side, having personally recommended themes she has created in the past to my friends. Her work speaks for itself, being clean, clever and overall inspiring productivity. For a full look at her work you can check her out on BlackBerry App World or her personal website: http://www.mobstermobiledesign.com. We asked her the same questions as our last interviewee, let’s see how she answers: Read the full interview!


Developer Spotlight: From A Themer’s Perspective
Posted on: October 19th, 2012 by Scott Burns 1 Comment

On October 12, 2012 RIM announced that there would not be a Theme Builder 7. There has been quite a buzz about it on my twitter timeline. In the days following the announcement, things got a little heated. Now that they have cooled off I wanted to take this opportunity to talk with a few of the people most directly affected by this news.

If you are an owner of a BlackBerry 7 device and you currently have, or have had, a non stock theme on it. You have the very outspoken Lucky45 (@_Lucky45) in part to think for that. He worked with various members of the BlackBerry community to hack Theme Builder 6. In a team effort with drkapprenticeDESIGNS, the end result was the first iteration of the MINI_Banner theme series. The theme has since then evolved into various forms. From the humble beginning with a smaller than stock banner, and the PlayBook icon set to moving ‘live’ banners, a unique notification glow and special tribute editions to various BlackBerry blogs. With numerous popular themes under his belt Lucky45 really out did himself with the MINI_Banner series.
Read the full interview here!


SliceoftheNet Podcast 14 (Video)
Posted on: October 17th, 2012 by Gage Castillo No Comments

A bit different from what we usually do, we used Google+ Hangouts this time around with some interesting results! We found that Google+ had inferior audio quality and picture, so we will be using Skype next episode. This episode we attempted to step out of our norm, but with very little success, I am guessing politics aren’t something of our strong suit (thank goodness!). We have a bit of Techular Bacon talk like usual along with some good ol’ video game rants and information. This episode runs about 90 minutes which we are still trying to squeeze down on time each episode we do!


Playstation All Stars Battle Royale Beta impressions
Posted on: October 17th, 2012 by Gage Castillo No Comments

Last night, I was able to put in a good amount of time with PlayStation’s attempt at a brawl fest type game called All Stars Battle Royale. I was reminded yesterday by our own @SSJASON that since I was the only #TeamSlice member with Playstation Plus, I was obligated to give the game an impressions post. PS All Stars for short, is a brawler type of game similar to Nintendo’s Super Smash Bro’s which has defined and dominated this genre for years, however the two have differences that are significant enough not to group this game as a Smash Bro’s copy. Just so you guys have a good idea on how I feel before I get into the article, I’m generally impressed and excited for this game, and what I have seen on the Beta has definitely left a good impression. Full article after the break!


Podcast 13 now available on iTunes!
Posted on: October 11th, 2012 by Gage Castillo 2 Comments

Hey everyone, iTunes finally updated our podcast feed so we now have episode 13 available for your enjoyment! Of course, there are a few hiccups with the audio quality, being live and having very little editing done you might notice my voice quality not coming through on certain parts of the episode. I am actively working on editing out sound interference from the other end of the call, so please expect an updated version of this episode as soon as I finish editing! Also, if you have missed this episode, and happen to be at the computer, you might want to watch the video version of the podcast on youtube!

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