Posted on December 18, 2009, at 2:53 pm .
With AutoText, you can actually insert Macros or shortcuts for other functions such as display the current time and date, your PIN number, owner information or even simulate pressing the backspace or delete keys. Here is how:
1. Create a new autotext entry by going to Options > AutoText > Menu > New. Under Replace, use “ts” (“Time Stamp”).
2. Scroll down to With and press the MENU key and select “Insert Macro”. TIP: All macros start with the percent sign (%).
3. Now, just scroll up or down and select the macro you want. In this case, we want a short date (%d) which is the “mm/dd/yy” format.
4. Type a SPACE and “-“ then SPACE, then insert the short time (%t). The field should now read “%d – %t”.
Now whenever you want to put the current date and time, just type your new entry: “ts” and press SPACE. You will now see something like 1/31/2009 – 9:25a whenever you type “ts” then SPACE.
This tip was provided by Gary Mazo from his recently released book with Martin Trautschold entitled BlackBerry Bold 9700 Made Simple.
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Posted on December 1, 2009, at 11:43 am .
Although WES 2010 isn’t until late April, we have a great contest to help 2 lucky people get there for free. The recession has hit a lot of companies’ budgets and conference dollars are hard to come by these days. The good folks at GSX are therefore helping out.
To enter for 1 of 2 free trips to WES 2010, all you need to do is the following:
Between now and Dec 15th, email feedback@gsx.net with Promo2010 to schedule a one hour one-on-one demo on GSX’s BES, Domino, Sametime or Exchange monitoring solutions.
By doing so, you will be automatically entered to win a fully paid trip to WES 2010. That includes air fare within the continental US, Hotel at the show and entrance fee to Lotusphere.
Hope to see you at WES and if you got there through BlackBerry Cool, you owe the us 1 coffee (they’re free).
Posted on November 30, 2009, at 9:53 am .
Posted on November 25, 2009, at 8:56 am .
Bplay is having a Thanksgiving Deal of the Day promotion where they’ll be discounting themes/games and giving some BOGO deals.
The “7 Days of Deals” promotion will run from November 25th through December 1st. A different promotion will be offered each day, with each deal remaining active until 8 AM the next day.
Take a look at today’s deal and be sure to check back because there’s lots of great stuff for cheap:
Day 1: November 25: Buy EA SPORTS Madden NFL 10 and get Space Slideshow for FREE!
Posted on November 24, 2009, at 10:48 am .
Thanks to everyone who commented on the Super BabyGO! giveaway post. We are in the process of getting the winners their free copies of this cool app.
If you didn’t win, stay tuned because we will surely have more from the Zeebu Mobile team coming. If you didn’t get a copy but you want to try it on a free trial, go ahead and grab it from their site.
Super BabyGO! is available for $5.99, or on a free trial from App World.
Click through to see the 25 winners of a copy of Super BabyGO!
Posted on November 23, 2009, at 5:13 pm .
The BlackBerry Curve 8300 was the top selling smartphone in the US again, according to the NPD Group. RIM beat out the iPhone 3GS and 3G which came in second and third. What really drove home sales for RIM was taking the rest of the top 5 with the Tour and Storm.
NPD is saying the BOGO campaigns (Buy One Get One) were largely responsible for the Curve taking the lead, and prices for the devices are lower than ever. Globally, prepaid BlackBerry plans are driving sales, and regions such as Asia and Latin America are going to be big revenue generators for RIM.
Posted on November 23, 2009, at 9:39 am .
Recently the BlackBerry Storm2 was introduced to Italian customers via Wind and Vodafone Italia.
On Wind, the device will cost 499Euros (about $750 USD), and customers will be able to get unlimited email and internet for 12 Euros per month ($18 USD). From Vodafone Italia customers will be able to pick up the device from €0 to €399 depending on the contract length. Ciao!
Posted on November 19, 2009, at 1:46 pm .
