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So sorry if this has already been posted or is common knowledge, but I just found out about it and I think it's pretty cool!
Mirrored from Create a Custom Home Page for your Playbook Browser! ← OpenSourceBB.com – OSBB
Update: 2pm MST March 30: Spaced the icons out a little more, so they wouldn't overlap when the full address bar is shown.
Last night I discovered something that quite a few people knew about, but I hadn’t heard of and that I think is totally awesome: you can use the Playbook browser to look through the filesystem of your Playbook by entering the URL “File:”
I got bored of that a bit quickly, because you can’t really do much in the filesystem without root access, which we don’t have anymore. But I did realize that you could use this feature to set a custom homescreen for your BlackBerry Playbook!
So this morning I did some quick html coding and made myself a custom homescreen. And, as is my custom, I decided I’d share it with the community
As you can see in the picture above, there are a total of 16 shortcuts, that take you to:
BlackBerry.com
The OpenSourceBB Blog
The CrackBerry Blog
The BerryReview Blog
Google Search
Yahoo Search
Amazon
eBay
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
Youtube
FoxNews or CNN News (depending on the version you choose)
Wikipedia
IMDB
And the Bridge launchpad
Installation instructions:
First, download either the FoxNews or CNN version (this is the only difference between the two) to your desktop.
Then follow these instructions:
1. Extract the “browser” folder from your Browser.zip/
2. Place the “browser” folder into the “misc” folder of your Playbook filesyestem.
3. Open your browser and open settings
4. Under the General tab, change the “For a New Page Show” option to “My Home Page.”
5. For the Home Page option, enter: file:///accounts/1000/shared/misc/browser/index.html
(Make sure you have three /s after file: as shown above).
6. That’s it! You now have a custom home page!
Feel free to modify index.html using any text editor to change the urls and the icons used! A Paypal donation button is included, but can be easily removed by editing the index.html (or I'll remove it for you if you use it and email me
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After talking about this with the OSBB team about this, I was informed that there’s also an app that will do this in BlackBerry App World, which you can check out at Buy Start in Style - Browser Start Bookmarks Page Alternative - Download Start in Style - Browser Start Bookmarks Page Alternative - Buy Apps from BlackBerry App World.Last edited by SCrid2000; 03-31-12 at 11:00 PM.
03-30-12 12:48 PM - Yes you can.
If you launch it with notepad++ you'll notice that each url/img is located within 2 <div> elements. One is to set it to an absolute position, the other is to center it on that absolute position. You can just continue adding icons, the icons are all 22% apart, so the next row, if you wanted to use dropbox, would look like:
<div style="position: absolute; left: 20%; top: 106%;" >
<div style="position: relative; top: -60px; left: -60px; width: 0px; height: 52px;">
<a href="http://www.dropbox.com"><img src="img/dropbox.png" width="120" /></a>
</div></div>
As far as icons, Google is your friend
make sure they're .pngs or you convert them to pngs (or gifs) with photoshop/gimp though or they won't have a transparent background.Last edited by SCrid2000; 03-30-12 at 09:31 PM.
03-30-12 04:22 PM
