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One of the features I always wanted in Viigo was the ability to have keyboard shortcuts for common functions. While Viigo has yet to get around the bug of using the spacebar to page down in articles CKim just let me know they have added two new shortcuts.
You can now forward an article by [...]
Have you ever found yourself in a position of having downloaded a corrupt application and killed your BlackBerry. Battery pull resets just throw it in the endless loop of boot cycle… and to top it all off you can’t get to a PC to reload or update your firmware ?
Try booting your BlackBerry in safe [...]
To get the best viewing experience on your BlackBerry, make sure you have CSS and Tables enabled on your device.
To check:
1. Press the BlackBerry button (seven black dots)
2. Select “Options” from the menu.
3. Select “Browser Configuration”
4. Highlight the check boxes next to
• Support HTML tables
• Support Javascript
• Use Background and Foreground colors
• Use Background [...]
Otis sent me an email about a few tricks he uses to enhance his typing experience on his BlackBerry. At first I was wondering why he bothered but after I setup a few of them I understood why he is in love with %b! In case you didn’t know the %b code essentially translates [...]
I know this is a very basic tip but I cannot count how many times I have seen people stand glued to the window (or even hanging out of it) while they make a call… I think this situation is one of the main selling points for Bluetooth. That is if you cannot justify [...]
I am sure many people already know about this little tip but I thought it would be worth covering it on BerryReview in detail. Documents To Go now comes standard on OS 4.5+ but has some limitations that you need to pay $69 for the Premium version to get. Over time I have found [...]
Editors note: I did not even know about this little hack. Michael Jones was kind enough to offer instructions on how to perform this little trick.
This is really for all those AT&T Bold users out there – who likes the Yahoo! email icon on their BlackBerry? Show of hands? Anyone? [crickets chirping] That’s what I [...]
One of the things that always annoyed me about the BlackBerry pictures app is that there is no way to crop images you take. Hopefully a solution for resizing images will be coming in OS 5.0 but until then Michael Jones came up with a ghetto workaround for cropping small images on your BlackBerry. I [...]
This is a basic tip that I forgot about until CoryR reminded me about it. That little LED/Flash on the back of your newer BlackBerry can easily be used as a flashlight if you just know how to pull it off. You need OS 4.3+ as far as I remember since it requires the [...]
Earlier this week we ran a popular article about AutoTexts and how people use them to auto-complete words and save time. JerryD enlightened me to the fact that there are actually macros that you can use in your AutoText setup to make entering certain information even simpler and easier to keep up to date. These [...]
NOTE: You can really screw up your device by messing around with options available in this screen. This is meant for those who know what they are doing and are willing to take some risks.
Since OS 4.0 or so there has been a hidden Engineering Screen in the BlackBerry OS. It contains a ton of [...]
One of the things that I love about my BlackBerry is the ability to spell check as I type (Using an 8900), but what really makes the BlackBerry smartphone stand above in my opinion is the multitasking capabilities.
Being bilingual, I often tend to type in both Spanish and English, and so far the BlackBerry has [...]
This is a little trick that Joe sent in that many of you may not be familiar with. It is a great little tip that saves me time every day finding emails like unread emails and such. Many of you may be familiar with clicking built in shortcuts like alt-o for outgoing or alt-p for [...]
Since the first person discovered that they could view their BlackBerry device log people have been trying to delete it to free some precious memory. You can view your device log by going to the home screen and clicking ALT+LGLG you can then clear your log manually and free a few precious kilobytes. Some people [...]
Brenda let me know about a creative solution she uses to remember to do some of life’s more complicated tasks. She essentially uses the powerful BBSmart Alarms Pro application to set audible reminders for herself that include her saying what she needs to do. For example you could leave yourself an audible reminder to [...]
A few weeks ago I unplugged my SD card while files were transferring and didn’t think twice about it. That is until I plugged it back in and I got the dreaded Windows Prompt that goes something along the lines of “* Drive is corrupt or unformatted. Do you want to format this drive?” [...]
Here Is a neat application that I ran across that some people might find useful, it’s called QWERTY Converter and you guessed it the name says it all. The application simply does what you expect. It converts alphanumerical numbers into numbers. As most smart phones these days come with QWERTY keyboards and is hard to [...]
Most of you BB addicts out there probably swap or upgrade your blackberry constantly as new models come out or any other phone in particular and what you usually end up doing is either selling it or handing it down to some one. Well what if you were someone very important per-say running a presidential [...]
One of the annoying steps you need to take to switch a BlackBerry device is to remove the SIM card. Since the 8700 series the SIM card has gotten harder to remove and requires some finesse or fancy finger work to get out. The 8800 gets my award for being the hardest to remove.
I either [...]
I can’t imagine this shortcut with be as used as other more common shortcuts like R for reply but it can be useful. I though I would mention it since Fred asked me about it last week while I was out on vacation.
All you have to do is hold down ALT and type RBVS while [...]
