Yesterday I decided it was time to clean up house on my BlackBerry. All my applications were running very slow and I had less than 3Mb of free storage. The time had come to finally rectify the problem. Previously I would have just removed some programs I installed and that would be that. This time [...]

After posting Rcbjr’s instructions on how to unlock vendor themes I promised to follow up with screenshots of the available vendor themes. The screenshots below are from an 8310 and show all of the themes available at this time. The themes for the 8800 are similar and the 8100 themes are more or less smaller [...]

I have to start off this post by saying that these instructions probably do not work for the 8130. With that said Rcbjr (AKA Richard ) has kindly allowed us to republish the great instructions he posted on PinStack.com on how to unlock vendor themes. Yes these are the same instructions we referenced before but [...]

As Joe Barr of Linux.com states marrying your BlackBerry with the penguin is a “Some assembly required” operation. So far there is no simple or straight forward package to sync your BlackBerry with Linux. On the other hand things have come quite far in the past few years thanks to the Barry and OpenSync projects.
Since [...]

While playing around listening to some music and watching video on my BlackBerry 8310 I discovered something I had never known before. In my previous Rant! about the video options on the BlackBerry I mentioned my frustration about the fast forward and rewind increments on the BlackBerry media player. The default movement is in extremely [...]

Many readers have asked me about the difference between the 3 web browsers that are available on BlackBerry devices.
There are the:

WAP browser – Usually renamed by your carrier which is meant to browse WAP pages (AT&T calls it MEdia Net)

Internet Browser – Meant for regular web browsing

BlackBerry Browser – This browser is only for users [...]

I am paranoid about security so I found this Knowledgebase article by RIM very useful. In this article RIM describes the exact steps you need to take to put your BlackBerry device in lockdown. It does not include instructions on how to encrypt the memory card and device memory but that is a straight forward [...]

I just read a post on GOS about a great feature that exists in Google Talk that I had never heard of before. It turns out that Google has translation Bot’s for over 18 different languages. All you have to do is add the translation Bot as a friend in Google Talk and send them [...]

One of the new features in the latest iterations of BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service) was the ability to request and respond to delivery and read receipts. This feature came along with BIS version 2.3. It is now also nicely integrated into the BlackBerry OS by putting another check next to an email when it is delivered [...]

RIM has done all of us a small favor by releasing a list of compatible car kits and Bluetooth headsets that are confirmed to work with BlackBerry devices with built in Bluetooth. This is a great resource because until now car kits used to be trial and error with many users running into quite a [...]