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CB » News & Rumors » Blaq for BlackBerry PlayBook v1.5 - Massive update, full of improvements now available
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Blaq for BlackBerry PlayBook v1.5 - Massive update, full of improvements now available

By Bla1ze on 28 Sep 2011 01:33 am
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Since the v.1.1 update of Blaq for the PlayBook Kisai labs has been rather quiet about further updates or so it would seem. Truth is, Kisai labs has been beta testing release after release for a while now with each version getting significantly better. Now, the time has come for Blaq for PlayBook v1.5 to finally be released to BlackBerry App World and ultimately to the masses.

The update is huge and brings along with it plenty of changes and bug fixes. Seriously -- the change log is so big we have to put it past the break for you because if we don't itl will the whole front page. Jump on past to see the full change log or you can just head over to BlackBerry App World right now and grab the latest Blaq for PlayBook v1.5 update.

So, what’s new?

Application

  • Refreshing new icon - Crisp lines, bold colors. Baselime has done it again.
  • Native notifications – Native notifications provide an easy way of knowing when you need to get back to Blaq. It’s also configurable. More on that later.

Main View

  • Real-time Indicator – To make it easy to understand if your tweets are updating in real time, we’ve added a convenient indicator.
  • Read without interruption – Timelines (Home, Mentions and Direct Messages) now pause once you being scrolling so you have a chance to catch up without new tweets pushing you down.

Tweets

  • Link Bar Code – now you can scan a bar code of a link in a tweet with two taps.
  • Translate – Sometimes you just need to know what was said by another user in another language.
  • Solid states for retweet and favorite – Now you’ll know for sure.

View Tweets, Followers, Listed and Following

  • Now you can tap on tweets, followers or following for any user. Just click a user’s name or search for it and tap on the tweet count, follower count or following count to check it out!

Options

  • Keep screen on – It is now possible to keep the screen on while reading tweets. Don’t forget to charge, though.

Notifications

  • Toggle all – Turn native notifications on or off with one tap or toggle the following:
  • New Tweets
  • New Mentions
  • New Direct Messages
  • New Followers – Yep, notification of new followers – right within Blaq

Accounts

  • Add a new account
  • Set the current account (account switch)
  • Delete account

Appearance

  • Font - Make Blaq yours. Customize your font to change things up a bit.
  • Font Size – Default font too small? Make it bigger? It’s that simple.

Bug Fixes

  • White screen encountered when device time is incorrect (DST workaround)
  • User can only tweet 139 characters instead of 140
  • Increase tweet count in lists (now at 75 tweets)
  • WebView pops up when no link in tweet
  • Convo view height not restored after pull down on tweet card
  • Performance sluggish when scrolling timelines
  • Times on display and in timelines are not updated
  • Search results are cleared and public timeline shows. Previous results are kept and updated.
  • Compose Tweet character count inaccurate
  • Report and Block buttons sometimes not functional
  • Friend picker shows below tweet card when composing a new tweet
  • Direct Message icon showing as new for direct messages sent outside of application
  • Tweet card pulls down for compose when scrolling convo list
  • Keyboard disappears when selecting a friend from friend picker
  • Timelines randomly scroll to the bottom
  • Application does not reorient itself when device is upside down
  • Conversation view takes a long time to load
  • Minor internal issues 

Phew! With all that out of the way, make sure you grab the latest update from BlackBerry App World. If you're not seeing it as of yet, just wait a little bit longer. It's appearing for most folks but a small handful of others are still waiting for it to show up. One other thing to note, is that if you currently have Blaq installed, make sure you delete it. Due to the vendor name changing you will end up with two different icons if the first version is still installed.

Download Blaq for PlayBook today from BlackBerry App World for only $1.99

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dennie82 Sep 28, 2011 at 1:36 am

price?

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UnknownError507 Sep 28, 2011 at 1:39 am

$1.99
and if you was a reading the article you could click on the link and find out faster ;).

Peace! :)

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chefnilla Sep 28, 2011 at 1:47 am

$1.99 is well worth it, too. Blaq is great.

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chefnilla Sep 28, 2011 at 1:38 am

Waiting for it to push through as an update in PlayBook's App World. Love Blaq since day 1!!!

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UnknownError507 Sep 28, 2011 at 1:42 am

Finally they relies to the public, this is huge !! this app i might think will be the best app i ever use for twitter.

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moe1up Sep 28, 2011 at 3:05 am

Looks good so for...the barcode scanner is slick.

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longuser12 Sep 28, 2011 at 6:09 am

I have 2 Blaq icons now, anyone else?

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FrankDLR1972 Sep 28, 2011 at 9:06 am

It says in the article,

"One other thing to note, is that if you currently have Blaq installed, make sure you delete it. Due to the vendor name changing you will end up with two different icons if the first version is still installed."

Hope that helps.

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ekkescorner Sep 28, 2011 at 6:09 am

great ! they fixed and enhanced all I was missing to have a 'real' Twitter App on Playbook and what I reported as wishes. ALways a good feeling if Software Vendors are listening to their users.

looking forward to Blaq for PlayBook 1.5 - still waiting to get the update through AppWorld (from Germany) on PB

after getting 1.5 I'll start soon testing and if all works as expected Blaq will become my main Twitter Client
(at the moment I'm using Nambu on OSX iMac and TweetDeck on iPhone)

this will be a big step forward to use my PB for all important daily tasks and Twitter is one of my important apps - esp native notifications sounds good because I always want to know about new tweets, mentions, DM ...

one year PlayBook and now, from week to week it becomes better with Apps for PB. Blaq 1.5 was the 2nd good news for me last days - I also enjoy Nobex Radio giving me all german Radiostations I missed before on PB :)

only worse thing: I'm just writing a very detailed review about the PlayBook and have to move things from the 'what-I'm-really-missing'-part to the 'enjoy-these-apps' part ;-)

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smertz Sep 28, 2011 at 6:43 am

Best twitter app period. Great job guys.

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carrickfergus Sep 28, 2011 at 6:49 am

Now if only they would update the phone app they issued and left us hanging with a couple of years ago! After we paid for it!

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KPMcClave Sep 28, 2011 at 8:52 am

The handheld app was only relased 13 months ago, I believe. Not a couple of years ago. Point taken, though, and I was actually about to ask if they had any plans to update the phone app. I believe version 1.3 may be the latest, and that came out only shortly after the initial release last year.

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blacklighter11 Sep 28, 2011 at 8:25 am

ive updated to ver 1.5 but i dont see any difference? howndo i change the font?

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wfubball Sep 28, 2011 at 11:44 am

Make sure you are using the right app, with the update the icons got duplicated on the OS, and the icon changed. If you did not delete the original app, you will have two Blaq icons, use the one with the different icon

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shawnOST Sep 28, 2011 at 9:32 am

Fantastic! A great app made even better!

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MrHelyar Sep 28, 2011 at 9:42 am

Love the update but I'm still wanting to be able to see timelines of people I am following. Maybe there is a way, I just don't know.

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jcarty Sep 28, 2011 at 10:52 am

Tap the Tweets count on the user's profile.

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MousePad Sep 28, 2011 at 11:18 am

Much more usable in this version... Switching back from Lemme... Will see.. :)

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vbev84 Sep 28, 2011 at 12:37 pm

I really like this app and the update, however I think they should either scrap the portrait mode idea or fix it immediately, yuck. Anyways nice job guys.

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jcarty Sep 28, 2011 at 3:09 pm

Portrait mode was NOT supposed to be in the App World build and will be fixed in a minor update by the end of the week or early next week.

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