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FAQ: How To Take Screenshots Of Your BlackBerry

I know I keep on receiving questions asking how to take screenshots of what you see on your BlackBerry screen. There are three different utilities/applications that I know of that let you do this. The first two are free and the last is commercial. I wont go into how to use them because they are [...]

Tutorial: Sending Attachments From Your Blackberry Device

This back to the basics article comes from one of our new contributors Mark who developed the very useful ezreregister utility we have mentioned previously. It is not meant for the hardcore BlackBerry user but is intended to answer a question that many of us get asked quite often by new BlackBerry users.
A handy feature [...]

CIO.com Shows Off Some BlackBerry Know-How

Al Sacco wrote a great reference on CIO.com about 5 features on your BlackBerry that not everybody knows about. He even provides you with the order of keypresses that you have to perform to get to each feature. Some of these are features I use every day.
The 5 features covered are:

Switching between applications
How to view [...]

FAQ: List Of BlackBerry .ALX Vendor ID Numbers

If you are new to the BlackBerry platform especially if you don’t know what a Vendor ID is you should probably ignore this article.
I was removing some of the other vendor themes that I do not use from my BlackBerry and decided to help out the people after me. I could not find a good reference [...]

Linux.com Provides How To Sync BlackBerry With Linux Tutorial

Joe Barr just posted a great little tutorial on Linux.com about how to sync your BlackBerry with Linux. The applications have been developing from the ground up for some time but this is the first step by step tutorial I have seen on how to sync your BlackBerry with Evolution.
If you are a Linux user [...]

How To Get Offline GPS Mapping With TrekBuddy

Josep sent me a link to a post by James on Medicalnerds.com about how to setup offline maps on your BlackBerry. I had been looking into this a few months back with no success so I am glad somebody has finally figured it out. You will find that this is not just a simple install. [...]

FAQ: Google Explains How To Setup SPAM Addresses In Gmail

I just ran across a great article on the official Gmail blog about how to create disposable and filterable email addresses in Gmail. I thought this was a great feature and decided to share. I personally have been using this feature for ages to be able to easily filter where my email is coming from. [...]

FAQ: How To Dial Phone Numbers With Letters

I know many people already know this shortcut but after reading a RIM Knowledgebase article about it I thought I would share it again.
Many companies such as Fed-Ex advertise their numbers like 1–800–GO-FEDEX. The problem is that BlackBerrys do not have the traditional 3 letters per key of other cellphones.
This problem is simply solved by [...]

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