Headless VoiceCorder for BlackBerry BB10

Instant audio recording at your fingertips, always ready to use with just a button press at any time, and with no need to start any app. Even when your phone is locked or holstered.

Works for recording phone calls, too - just double-press the configured button while on a call to instantly start recording it.

And if you wish so, by disabling selected or all notifications (sound/vibra feedback on recording start/end, LED blinking, Hub notification) you can also make it completely invisible and unnoticeable by anyone (it is done entirely in the background with no visible elements of any kind), and it can even auto-stop after the configured time. You can start recording and literally give the phone to someone - he can play with your phone and won't notice being recorded (it may be illegal in some countries, it's up to you to respect the law).

Launch the UI / Settings part just once, configure all desired options, close it, and the headless service will keep working invisibly in the background so that you can start recording audio at any time, just by quickly double-pressing the chosen button. You can then stop recording by double-pressing the same button again, or it can stop automatically after the chosen period of time. 

The headless service consumes almost no memory and virtually no CPU time or battery life so it can be kept running all the time waiting for you to use it, with absolutely no impact on your phone's performance. 

Headless VoiceCorder provides a rich choice of user-configurable options: which button to use (Volume Up, Volume Down or Mute), when the button is active (Always, Only When Locked, Only When Not Locked), whether to allow or block voice recording when the device is holstered (in a holster with magnetic sensor), time to automatically stop recording, memory to use (device or memory card), sound and/or vibration feedback when recording starts and ends, LED flashing while recording, Hub notification when the recording has been successfully saved, as well as audio file parameters: format (WAV, AMR or M4A), sampling rate (8 kHz - 48 kHz) and the number of channels (mono or stereo).

Features:

• Native, headless
• Small and power-efficient - virtually no CPU or battery life consumption
• Lets you record audio or take voice notes at any time with just a press of a button, even when the phone is locked or holstered
• Highly configurable
• You can disable its audio/vibration feedback and notifications for a completely unnoticeable audio recording
• Configurable auto-stop timer.

Headless VoiceCorder is now available from the BlackBerry World store

Talking Clock for BlackBerry BB10

Talking Clock is a tiny native headless app which works invisibly in the background and (using speech synthesis) speaks the current time in your selected language - hourly, half-hourly or quarterly. It uses virtually no resources or battery life and provides very rich configuration options.

• The time can be spoken in one of 58 languages (virtually all major languages are supported)
• 8 voice variants (3 male voices, 3 female voices, child, robot)
• Configurable speech rate, pitch, word gap, intonation
• 24 or 12 hour clock
• Customizable message format: add words in your language before the hour, after the hour and after minutes. By default the app just says the time (e.g. 11:45) but you can easily change it to say "It's 11 hours and 45 minutes AM", or "Es ist 11 Uhr 45 Minuten", or "Jest godzina 11:45", or whatever else you feel like
• Customizable A.M. / P.M. texts for your language
• Customizable hour names. If your language uses a different case than nominative, you can enter texts for each hour in the correct form. E.g. "eleventh" instead of "eleven", or "jedenasta" instead of "jedenaście" in Polish, and so on.
• Choose interval: hourly, half-hourly or quarterly
• Exclude hours: the time will not be announced between the selected hours
• Exclude days: the time will not be announced on the selected days of week
• Choose active profiles: the time will be spoken only in the profiles you select
• Mute in Bedside Mode: the time will not be spoken when the device is in the Bedside Mode.

Features:

• Native, headless. Run once, configure all options, close and let it always work for you invisibly in the background.
• Tiny and lightweight - virtually zero memory, CPU or battery consumption.
• Works fully OFFLINE, the app does NOT require Internet connection and never connects to the Internet.

Talking Clock is now available from the BlackBerry World store

Back2Normal for BlackBerry BB10

Do you happen to switch the phone to some silent profile and then forget to switch it back to Normal? Then Back2Normal is for you. 

It is an ultra-lightweight headless application which works invisibly in the background and fully integrates with the OS. Whenever you change profiles from Normal to any of the enabled ones, it will display a dialog letting you quickly choose WITH ONE TAP the time after which the phone will be automatically switched back to the Normal profile. Now, even if you forget to switch it back, your phone will do it for you after the time you've chosen. A silent Hub notification confirms that automatic switching to the Normal profile has been scheduled and informs about the time at which the Normal profile will be reverted. Of course, you can still do it manually at any time, and you don't have to do anything else as it will automatically cancel the scheduled automatic switch. 

If you want to change profiles without enabling the automatic function, just dismiss the dialog by tapping 'Cancel' or simply ignore it (it will close automatically after the time configured in Settings, e.g. 5 seconds). You can also enable or disable a sound notification when the Normal profile is automatically reverted to. That's it! Just select the profiles you want this app to recognize and enjoy its seamless operation. 

FEATURES: 

* Ultra-lightweight, ZERO impact on battery life or performance 

* Native, headless, fully integrated with the OS 

* Configure once and enjoy.

Back2Normal is now available in the BlackBerry World store

Sound Scheme for BB10 - add customizable sound notifications to almost all OS events

Sound Scheme - just like sound schemes in a desktop OS like Windows - lets you add customized sound notifications to almost 40 system events. Each event can be freely enabled or disabled and you can select your own sounds for each of them.

From now on, you don't have to look at your phone to know when e.g. the battery finishes charging, when data services get enabled, when your device auto-locks or unlocks in your pocket, when you go out of your mobile network's coverage and the phone loses signal, when you enter or exit roaming, when the battery is low or empty, when there's too little free space in internal memory, and much more. You will simply hear your configured sound notification for every enabled event.  It is a tiny headless service working invisibly in the background so once you configure it you can just forget about it and enjoy the notifications as if they were fully integrated with the OS.

Events supported in this version include:

- Operating System Loaded / App started

- Mobile Radio Enabled

- Mobile Radio Disabled

- Mobile Network Connected

- Mobile Network Disconnected

- Mobile Data Enabled

- Mobile Data Disabled

- Roaming Entered

- Roaming Exited

- WiFi Radio Enabled

- WiFi Radio Disabled

- WiFi Network Connected

- WiFi Network Disconnected

- Bluetooth Radio Enabled

- Bluetooth Radio Disabled

- Bluetooth Connected
- Bluetooth Disconnected

- NFC Radio Enabled

- NFC Radio Disabled

- Device Holstered (requires holsters with magnetic sensor)

- Device Unholstered

- Device Placed Face Down (requires "Flip To Save Power" interaction to be enabled in phone's Settings)

- Device Picked Up from Face Down

- Battery Charging Started

- Battery Charging Stopped

- Battery Full

- Battery Low (with configurable level)

- Battery Empty

- Battery Saving Mode Enabled

- Battery Saving Mode Disabled

- Internal Storage Memory Low Space (with configurable threshold and warning interval)

- Memory Card Low Space (with configurable threshold)

- Device Password-Locked

- Device Password-Unlocked

- Device Screen-Locked

- Device Screen-Unlocked

- Device PIN-Blocked

- Device PIN-Unblocked
- Profile changed.

You can allow or deny sounds in Bedside Mode and select which profiles the app will be active in.

Future updates will add volume control and even more events.

Please see the "About" screen in the app for detailed information.

Features:

- Tiny autostarting headless service working invisibly in the background, fully integrated with the OS

- Configure once and forget about it

- Virtually no battery or CPU usage

- Almost 40 events supported in this version

- Enable or disable sounds in Bedside Mode
- Select profiles which the app will be active in

- Permissions used: Work In Background (required for the headless service to work), Access Shared (needed to allow selecting custom sounds).

Notes:

* The app comes with some basic sounds preconfigured. You can freely change them to any other audio files.

* If you use your own sounds, we recommend choosing short and subtle ones. Too long or too aggressive sounds can quickly become annoying.

* We recommend only choosing the events you really need to be notified about. Enabling sounds for too many events can make your phone notify you about unimportant things way too often, which you'll quickly find distrupting.

* Sometimes multiple events may take place simultaneously, e.g. when you disable the WiFi radio an active WiFi connection gets terminated at the same time (both of which can have their own sounds), or when battery charging stops at full charge. In such case usually only one of the two notifications will be heard.

Sound Scheme is now available in BlackBerry World

Live LockScreen: THE SUN. Live Sun data on BB10 Lock Screen

The Lock Screen of your BlackBerry 10 phone doesn't have to be static and boring anymore. The "Live LockScreen" series of apps brings live content to your LockScreen.

'Live LockScreen: THE SUN' displays live Sun Rise, Set, Dawn and Dusk times, for both today and tomorrow, right on your Lock Screen where you can always see it at a glance without having to open any app or doing anything else. The widget is automatically updated daily at midnight so the information you see is always up to date.

Just enter your location (or get it from the GPS) and choose the wallpaper image, and then you can forget about this app and let it always show current Sun times on your Lock Screen forever.

This app shows not only the usual Rise and Set times, but also Dawn and Dusk times, i.e. when it actually gets dark in the evening or when the first rays of light start lighting up the sky in the morning. This is very useful for people who need to plan their daily activities based on daylight availability, for travelers to safely get back home from their trips before it gets dark, and so on. No need to launch any app anymore - from now on a look at your Lock Screen is all it takes.

It is a headless app working invisibly in the background, without ANY impact on your phone's battery life or performance as it is active only for a few seconds a day.

FEATURES:

• Always up to date Sun Rise, Set, Dusk and Dawn times for both the present and the next day, right on your Lock Screen
• Automatically updated daily
• Choose any wallpaper image you want
• Optionally enable black background behind the widget
• Absolutely no impact on battery life or performance
• Tiny headless service working invisibly in the background
• No Internet connection, all calculations are done locally by the app itself
• Permissions used (and required for the app to work): Work In Background (headless service), Access To Shared Files (wallpaper images), Location (if you want to be able to get your location from the GPS).

Live LockScreen: THE SUN is available from the BlackBerry World

Live LockScreen: THE MOON. Live Moon data on the Lock Screen

The Lock Screen of your BlackBerry 10 phone doesn't have to be static and boring anymore.

'Live LockScreen: THE MOON' displays live Moon data right on your Lock Screen where you can always see it at a glance without having to open any app or doing anything else. Content is automatically updated daily, so the information you see is always up to date.

Moon data shown on the Lock Screen includes:

* Current Moon Phase (shown as Moon face image and phase name)
* Today's exact Moon Rise and Set times for your location
* Current Percentage of Moon face's illumination
* Name and image of the constellation the Moon is currently crossing.
* Upcoming updates will add information about Super Moons and eclipses.

Features:

* Always up-to-date Moon data right on your Lock Screen
* Automatically updated daily
* Choose any wallpaper image you want
* Optionally enable black background behind the widget
* Absolutely no impact on battery life or performance
* Tiny headless service working invisibly in the background

* Permissions used (and required for the app to work): Work in Background (headless service), Access to Shared Files (wallpaper images), Location (if you want to get your location from GPS).

Live LockScreen: THE MOON is now available from the BlackBerry World

Live LockScreen: BIORHYTHM. Live Biorhythm graphs on the Lock Screen of your BB10 device

The Lock Screen of your BB10 phone doesn't have to be static and boring anymore! The 'Live LockScreen' series adds LIVE content to your Lock Screen, providing you with regularly and automatically updated data whenever you look at the Lock Screen of your device.

Live LockScreen: Biorhythm displays your current biorhythm cycles (updated daily at midnight) in form of a graph located at the bottom of the Lock Screen. Now you can always see your up-to-date biorhythm readings at a glance, without having to open any app or doing anything else!

Use this app (instead of your phone's Settings) to choose any wallpaper image you want like you do normally. For best results and good readability select an image that does not obscure the graph, or - alternatively - you can enable black background behind the graph to make it legible. You can also decide whether to show graph labels (reminding you which colors represent the physical, emotional and intellectual cycles) and your current age in days. The graph shows you the current day in its center (marked with red triangle, or a yellow warning sign on critical days when one of the cycles crosses its zero point) as well as past 30 days on the left and the next 30 days on the right side. 

Once configured, you can just forget about this app and let it update the graph for you daily, forever. As the content gets updated only once per day at midnight, this application has absolutely no impact on your phone's performance or battery life.

Features:

• Always up-to-date biorhythm reading at a glance
• Warning symbol shown on critical days
• Your current age in days (optional)
• Automatically updated daily at midnight
• Choose any wallpaper image you want
• Optionally enable black background behind the graph
• Absolutely no impact on battery life or performance
• Tiny headless service working invisibly in the background
• Permissions used (and required for the app to work): Work in Background, Access to Shared Files
• No matter if you believe in the biorhythm theory or not, it's just fun to have it and bring some LIFE to your Lock Screen!

LIVE LockScreen: Biorhythm is now available from the BlackBerry World