Tips 'n Tricks Archive

Washington will slap you with a $101 fine for texting while driving. Not quite jail, but it’s a start. While it’s probably more of a temptation for Pearl users who can one-hand it, any QWERTY-pad thumbers out there actually try to write e-mails while they drive? The motion passed by 90-8, and is being [...]

A UK initiative called WorkWise, is gearing up for Work Wise Week, in an effort to promote healthier home-work balance and lifestyle choices. Specifically, next Friday is their National Work from Home Day.
Living in the national capital of Canada, I’ve heard plenty from grumbling government employees who are forced to keep their [...]

There’s several ways to get YouTube videos on your Blackberry. The basic idea is just to find a program that will download the videos from YouTube in flash format and then convert it into a format that can be viewed on your Blackberry like mpeg-4. It’s a bit of a process so today I’m going [...]

So yesterday we let you know about ICQ and AIM becoming available for the BlackBerry (and Windows Live Messenger has been added into the fray since). We’ve received a bunch of emails from various tipsters, but a couple were more helpful than others. BBCool contributor and Forums moderator Jibi (with the assistance of [...]

Sounds like a bad disease. And really, it could be. Just not for you, but that little pal of yours on your hip. We’ve been covering the issues surrounding the advancement of Daylight Savings Time, and we just want to make sure you folks are covered come late Saturday night (or early [...]

See, I wouldn’t hate on Cingular so much as to completely remove the logo from my device. These folks have, though, and I’m more than happy to send pass along the tips. Forums user akgrown has put together a step-by-step to removing that aesthetically unpleasing Cingular logo using a simple list of tools.
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Come on - it was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Quickly moving on, we’re always trying to find new ways to customize our devices to make us even nerdier cooler than the rest of society. One of our favourite Forums members San Francisco has put together a great tutorial of how to [...]

As unboxing shots start to surface, I start to notice things to check out regarding RIM’s latest roll-out on Cingular. One of the minor details that I’ve yet to really explore was Cingular’s BlackBerry 8800 tutorial.
It goes a lot more in-depth than the BlackBerry.com tutorial that became available last week, and has [...]

Our good pal over at the forums, Stinsonddog, is well known for his BlackBerry-related tips & tricks. A while back we took a gander at some cases from Proporta and thrust our thumbs down so hard they went white(r) from blood loss. Thankfully, Stinsonddog’s got some great tips when it comes to picking [...]