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Es sei denn Sie mit dem gegenwärtigen toolbar vollständig glücklich sind, würde ich mich jede, Ikone zu löschen empfehlen und vom Kratzer abzufahren. You can do this by pressing the menu key and going down to delete, or use the handy keyboard shortcuts. Select the icon you wish to delete and simply press the “D” key on your keyboard.
Now it’s time to add your favorite applications to the toolbar. The order in which you add them doesn’t really matter as you can move them around freely after they are in place. You can have a lot of shortcuts on your toolbar, however the most that will fit on the screen without scrolling over is 8, so I stick with 8. 
Press the menu key, click on “New Shortcut” and then on “Toolbar”. Or avoid all this button pushing by pressing the “T” key on your keyboard. You will notice all the keyboard shortcuts are displayed next to the corresponding option in the menu. Now you will see a list of all the possible applications you can add to your toolbar.I believe most of the pre-installed RIM applications are included: Address Book, Browser, Calculator, Calendar, MemoPad, Messages, Phone, Alarm, Blackberry Messenger, BrickBreaker, Manage Connections, Options, Password Keeper, Profiles, Search, Setup Wizard, Voice Dialing, and even Wireless Upgrade. Now with the new version, even many of my favorite 3rd party applications are available to the toolbar: GoogleTalk, Opera, BBSmart Alarm Pro, my RSS reader and practically everything I need.
Once you have customized your toolbar, it’s time to move on with the rest of the application.
Email Shortcuts
This part of the application gives you quick and easy access to the people that you email most. Adding your contacts’ email addresses is pretty simple since BBSmart has integrated shortcuts with your address book. Hit the “E” key to add a new email shortcut, start typing the contact’s name and the program immediately starts searching your address book for names that match. Select their name, and then if you already have an email address stored in your contacts, select the appropriate address (my fiancée has 3 email addresses, but I only email 1 regularly). No email address entered in your contact list? No problem type in any address you wish. Hit “OK” and your contact appears under the email list. To compose an email to a person on your quick list, scroll down to their name and click your trackwheel or trackbutton and the email program opens with that address already entered.
Messaging Shortcuts
Basically, this is the same as the email shortcuts. However, instead of email, this option composes a text message.
Phone
Add contacts here to quickly place a call to your most frequently used numbers. This has been the one that I have used the most, and I wish I could reorganize the order of the categories to make this one on top.
Web
Here you can enter your favorite Web sites. This ends up being even faster than using the bookmarks in your browser. Anything that makes my life easier is great in my book! While this doesn’t integrate with your bookmarks for easy entry, you can paste an address from your clipboard!
Pros
- Makes my life simpler
- Great easy to use interface
- Integrates with all of my most used applications
- Affordable price
Cons
- Does not integrate with browser favorites
- Can’t reorganize categories
Conclusion
This program is amazing, it has taken much of the monotony out of my life and simplified many of my day-to-day tasks. Good for BBSmart for seeing a way to make people’s life easier and acting on it! I would recommend this program to anyone whether for work or for play.Here is a sample of my screen. I have eliminated a lot of my shortcuts so you can see an overview of all the shortcut categories, when in reality I have at least 5-10 entries in each category!
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“Does not integrate with browser favorites”
Unless I’m mistaken (if so, please prove me wrong!
) this isn’t programmatically possible.
Come on — 9 stars? For an app that really doesn’t do much beyond what the built-in apps do? I’m all for convenience myself, but I fail to see how clicking the app to open it and scrolling down to my wife’s name is really any more convenient than typing her first name in the address book and clicking Compose Email, or better yet assigning her a speed dial key to call her with even fewer clicks or scrolls. Also, you already can sort your apps in your preferred order on the BB screen — why would you want an app that does that too, but with smaller icons and even less convenience? For me, it was a big waste of valuable memory to have this installed. It is well-designed, but frankly quite redundant given how good the native interface is. I tried it for a couple of days, did a lot of customizing myself, and promptly deleted it. I find the web shortcut apps produced by North Cubed Limited to be much more useful (and free). I do think it’s a nicely-done app, but I sure wouldn’t give it 9 stars. Not when other apps (”Add to Calendar” to name one) are so much more deserving.
Hi Eric,
Did you setup the application to run when the convenience key on your BB is pressed? If you didn’t, it sounds like you are missing out on the major benefit of an application like this.
For me, the best thing about this app is that no matter what I’m doing, if I’m in another application, etc. I can just hit the convenience key, click on a name and *boom* I’m making a phone call, emailing someone, launching a website, or sending an SMS.
Another application using the convenience key, so if you use this you can’t use vlingo, or voice dialing or your camera or any other app you have set up to use that button. I agree with Eric, it isn’t “that” convenient.