Hey guys, so I would first like to thank you for this great opportunity to review on these boards.
Now to start my first “column”, I will begin with WHY one should unlock their device, and what it means to “Unlock” your device.
Firstly, many carriers use the term of a “locked phone”, referring to the SIM [...]

I just ran across a great Knowledge Base article on RIM’s website explaining how to calculate the free memory available on your Berry. They explain how the status screen comes up with the calculations. The only problem is that you need desktop manager to do it yourself to break down what is taking all your [...]

Now this is a surprising step from RIM. They has just put up a knowledge base PDF file detailing:
Steps to take before selling, or after buying, a previously owned BlackBerry smartphone. (cropped screenshot of PDF below)

It is nice to see that RIM is making an effort to help users who have bought a used BlackBerry or are [...]

One of our readers, Erica, sent in a question asking why her BlackBerry would take forever to charge at work. BlackBerry devices take forever to change when they are plugged into computers that do not have the Desktop Manager application installed.
It turns out that her work computer would not allow her to install desktop manager. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]