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BlackBerry Tips
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Chris Cogburn, Information Technology Manager for Colemont Insurance Brokers, presented tips and tricks for BlackBerry use during the Mid-Year Saturday sessions. Mr. Cogburn discussed various shortcuts and helpful knowledge for even the savvy BlackBerry user during his presentation Technology - Insights and Tips for Productivity.

 

Some of the important tips he outlined were:

 

  • To vertically scroll between icons on the home screen, hold down the Alt key while rolling the trackwheel (for non-trackball devices only).
  • To switch to another application, hold the Alt key and press the Escape button (located on the right-side of the device or to the right of the trackball).
  • To select the application, continue holding the Alt key and roll the trackwheel/trackball. To switch to that application, release the Alt key.

    To use shortcut keys M(Mail), A(Address Book), L(Calendar), and T(Tasks) to open an application from the Home screen (this does not apply to the Pearl).

  • Open the Phone screen, open the Phone options.
  • Click General options.
  • Change the Dial From Home screen field to No.
  • The shortcut keys are underlined on the Home screen when scrolling over the icon.

 

For the entire presentation of tips and tricks, please click here.


Some other helpful links are below:

 

Games, Ring tones, Wallpapers, etc.  - http://mobile.blackberry.com/

Google Search, Gmail, Maps, News - http://mobile.google.com/

BlackBerry Internet Service (e-mail forwarding) - http://www.blackberry.com/support/client/

Tips for other BlackBerry devices - http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/blackberry101/tips/