FAQ: Having Trouble With AT&T MEdia Net Ringtones?
A bit back I had a friend of mine ask me about a problem he had when buying a ringtone from AT&T’s MEdia Net store. I told him that his first problem was paying for a ringtone but that is besides the point. While trolling the RIM Knowledgebase today and ran into a work around RIM has…
How To: Guide On How To Clean BlackBerry Trackball
Even has posted a great guide on BlackBerryforums on how to clean your BlackBerry trackball. This may interest many users including me since mine is already black from dirt and grime. The guide requires you to get down and dirty with your device with a screwdriver and a “spudger” (not sure what that is) so…
How To: Edit/Fix ID3 Tags & Add Album Art For Free
We have had quite a few requests from reader (the latest being from Delia) about editing their MP3 tags and album art for their BlackBerry. By editing and fixing your tags you will be able to use the album, artist, and genre filtering built into the BlackBerry Media/MP3 player. It will also let you fix all…
How To: Listen To Podcasts On Your BlackBerry – 4 Options
One of our readers, Pei, asked me how he could listen to Podcasts on his BlackBerry. The honest answer is that so far there is no easy way to subscribe to a podcast on your BlackBerry. There are a few solutions that I will detail out below but none of them are seamless and most…
FAQ: How To Convert Video For Your BlackBerry For Free!
I have been asked countless times about how to encode video to play correctly on a BlackBerry. So I decided to write up a post with a short description of the 2 free pieces of software I use to re-encode video to play on my BlackBerry 8310 Curve. There are other commercial video encoders but personally…
FAQ: How To Install A .COD File OTA (Over The Air)
Have you ever gotten the dreaded error: “No additional applications designed for your device were found” even when you know that the application is designed for your device? I ran into this same exact issue and I have finally come up with a work around. The steps take a little finesse but they get the…
Karen’s Replicator – Incremental Backup For Your Memory Card
I was just reading a great forum post by Stinsonddog (good guy by the way if you are looking for answers to hard questions) about using this application, Karen’s Replicator, to backup your BlackBerrys SD card when you connect it to your PC. There are hundreds of applications that do this but this application seems to…
FAQ: Why Don’t 3rd Party Applications Use Push Technology?
A bit back I had asked Neil Sainsbury, the developer of BBSmart, why no 3rd party application developers made use of the push technology built into the BlackBerry platform. I asked him because I am still dreaming about the day we could get a push RSS feed reader for BlackBerry that would not harm your…