FAQ: Lost Access To Your Gmail Or Google Account? Here Is How To Get It Back
Recently a friend of mines Gmail account was compromised due to his weak password. I always yelled at him for having a easy to guess password but he learned the hard way one day when all of his friends asked him why he sent them spam asking them to buy Viagra. The problem was that…
FAQ: Webmail Accounts That Give You Real Time Delivery (Push) With BIS
Every once in awhile I get asked by a friend why their Gmail account gets email faster than another one of their accounts. I always explain that RIM worked with a few large webmail companies to speed up delivery of emails received through them. The problem was that I never really had a complete list…
FAQ: Understanding MicroSD & MicroSDHC Card Speeds – Class 6 & Class 4 Cards? Write & Read Speeds?
Shopping around for a new MicroSD card for your BlackBerry? Totally confused about what the difference is between a Class 4 and a Class 6 device? Wondering what 133x or 66x or 32x means? Turns out that it is quite simple. The class defines the minimum write speed for a completely empty SD card. That…
FAQ: How Do You Clean Your TrackBall?
Since the first trackball BlackBerry it has been a constant struggle to keep the darn thing clean and functioning. It got so bad on my 8310 before I got my Bold that I had to purchase a replacement. I tried everything from rubbing it against a towel to putting soap on a paper towel with…
FAQ: How to Download Themes to your Blackberry
Since Ronen gets several requests from readers on how to download free themes to their Blackberry devices, he thought it might be a good time to put together a ‘tutorial’ of sorts. This is where I come in. So, if you’re a newbie or just plain new to downloading themes, here’s some basic instructions for…
FAQ: Can’t Disable Or Suppress Read Receipts On BES… Why Oh Why RIM?
A colleague asked me and interesting question yesterday. When he received any email on his BlackBerry BES account requesting a read receipt it would automatically send one when he opened the email. For BIS users and BIS accounts you can easily turn this off or get prompted by going to Messages>Options>Email Settings and turning it…
RIM Recommends Opensource Tools For Transcoding Video
I came across this interesting knowledge base article RIM posted a bit back. In it somebody at RIM describes how to transcode video from an unsupported format to a format that will play on your BlackBerry. It is actually a pretty decent guide but one part of it really stuck out. Guess what software RIM…
All about GMail
Seasoned users may find this boring, but the Blackberry is getting new enthusiastic users every day. If you’re one of them and don’t know much about GMail in your Blackberry, here is your chance to know everything about it. This Web site Google Tutor is supposed to teach everything you want or need or might…