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Quick Tip: Updating your BlackBerry to a different carrier’s OS? Make sure you delete BOTH vendor files

As I found out earlier this morning, installing another carrier’s OS on your BlackBerry isn’t as easy as downloading and deleting the vendor.xml file — now you have to delete both vendor files. It seems that in one of the updates to BlackBerry Desktop Manager, the vendor.xml file is Read the Rest of the story [...]

Quick Tip: Show two time zones in the native BlackBerry Clock

Here’s a fun tip that I had never seen before. If you’re a frequent traveler and use the Clock app on your BlackBerry, you can set the app to always show your home time zone (or show two different time zones). This is super handy as you can view the clock and Read the Rest of the story [...]

Quick Tip: How to send your contact information with vCards on OS 6 and OS 7

Have you ever been asked for your business card only to realize you ran out? Are there moments when you want to send your number, email, and pin to a friend but don’t want to type everything out? Well have no fear your BlackBerry device makes it really simple to share Read the Rest of the story [...]

Quick Tip: Some great BlackBerry shortcuts

Who doesn’t love a good shortcut? Doing things the long way is the like paying retail, why do it if there is a better (cheaper) way. A while back I wrote about Auto Text/Word Substitution on the BlackBerry and there were some great comments from the community sharing their personal favorites.

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Quick Tip: Turn off those pesky Facebook notifications

So all of a sudden your BlackBerry is being bombarded with Facebook notifications like “so and so has posted a link” or “so and so updated their status”. You login and make sure all your notifications are turned off yet they still keep coming! I pulled my 9930 Read the Rest of the story [...]

Quick Tip: How to add Music, Videos, and Pictures to your home screen on BlackBerry OS 7

These days I’m all about the home screen and the added functionality BlackBerry OS 7 brings with customizing it. Whether you’reÂ customizing the panelsÂ , moving a bookmark to, or even creating your own visual address book, its all about getting the most done with the least effort. While OS 6 also Read the Rest of the story [...]

BlackBerry Quick Tip: What’s this icon mean?

When you become a BlackBerry owner, it’s like you learn a whole new language. Not only is there new terminology to learn, but your screen will soon be home to all kinds of icons and notifications. Most of them are pretty self-explanatory, but others aren’t so obvious to new users, Read the Rest of the story [...]

Quick Tip: How to Clear the App World 3.0 Cache Data With New Shortcut

RIM annoyingly changed the shortcut to clear the App World cache on your device when they updated the app to v3.0. Previous versions just had to ALT+RST. One of our tipsters let us know that RIM has updated the official â€œHow to clear the BlackBerry App World cacheâ€ knowledge base article with Read the Rest of the story [...]

Quick Tip: How to enable and disable Universal Search on OS6 and OS7

How to disable Universal Search from the home screen on BlackBerry OS 6 and OS 7

Whether you recently updgraded to a new device, or are a first time user you may findÂ Universal SearchÂ to not be for you, and would rather have your application shortcuts back. Universal Search is Read the Rest of the story [...]

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