Posts Tagged blackberry
How to setup Blackberry Protect Application
Posted by Mitch in blackberry on March 31, 2011
Protect your Blackberry against theft and accidental loss by installing this new FREE Application: Blackberry Protect With Blackberry Protect, you can: Automatically, wirelessly back up your contacts, calendars, tasks, memos, bookmarks, & text messages. Track the location of your BlackBerry smartphone. Activate a loud ring tone so you can find your smartphone. Remotely lock your [...]
Dial letters with Blackberry
Posted by Mitch in blackberry on January 15, 2011
Let’s suppose you want to call 1-800-4MYTAXI. Some people don’t know that you can dial letters with your blackberry and don’t need to know the number equivalent. Simply hit ALT+letter and when you dial the phone will automatically recognize what the number should be and dial that for you.
Blackberry Playbook preview
Posted by Mitch in blackberry, Devices on December 19, 2010
First I have to admit that lately my eyes have been wandering…over to my friend’s iPhone, then to his iPad. Don’t get me wrong, I love my Blackberry, but Apple has been killing it with some slick-looking devices for several years now and a man can only resist so long. But I think the new [...]
Blackberry Silencer – Mute the Shutter sound on the camera
Posted by Mitch in blackberry on August 9, 2010
Here’s a FREE app that takes pictures silently. Blackberrys, like most phones these days, have an audible shutter “click” sound when you use the camera to take a picture. Normally this isn’t a big deal because the parties being photographed have reason to expect that their picture is being taken. But what if you wish [...]
Congestion message placing phone call on AT&T Blackberry Bold phone
Posted by Mitch in blackberry on March 26, 2010
My coworker has a Blackberry Bold phone on the AT&T network and one day it started saying “Congestion” when he tried to place a phone call. The reason for this is probably due to too many 3G devices on AT&T’s network nowadays. I imagine that the network chooses blocks of devices to deny service to [...]
Blackberry device receiving old messages as if they were new
Posted by Mitch in blackberry, Devices on December 30, 2009
I keep receiving old messages that I deleted on my Blackberry Tour as NEW messages. This has happened twice since December 22, 2009. I think it’s related to the network outages that BB had in North America on the 22nd because I’ve never had this problem before then and the emails that are being re-delivered [...]
Blue Ant z9i pairing instructions
I had to pair a Blue Ant z9i to my Blackberry Tour and after turning on Bluetooth and clicking on Search on the BB it still wasn’t finding the Blue Ant despite it being in the proper mode (or so I thought) as laid out in this quick start manual here. When you turn the [...]
Blackberry Wireless Sync how-to
Posted by Mitch in blackberry, Devices on March 6, 2009
These steps are for when the device is available to connect with a cable. It’s more reliable than a strictly wireless setup. Steps: 1. Connect the device to the server with the USB cable. 2. After detection and installation, open the BB Manager. 3. In the Manager, add the user’s account to the software. 4. [...]
Blackberry Wireless Sync
Posted by Mitch in blackberry on March 6, 2009
Steps: 1. Connect the device to the server with the USB cable. 2. After detection and installation, open the BB Manager. 3. In the Manager, add the user’s account to the software. 4. Prompts with message: “Click Device Management within a users account to assign to a device, associate the device with the user’s messaging [...]