1. To move the cursor in a different direction, hold the Alt key and roll the trackwheel.
   
2. To type an accented or special character, hold the letter key and roll the trackwheel. When the desired character appears, release the letter key.
   
3. To switch to another application, hold the Alt key and press the Escape button. Continue to hold the Alt key and select an application. Release the Alt key to switch to that application.
   
4. To exit a screen or dialog box, press the Escape button.
   
5. To change an option field, hold the Alt key. Click a value.
   
6. To move directly to an item in an options list or menu, press the first letter of the item.
   
7. To select a check box, press the Space key. To clear the check box, press the Space key again.
   
8. To select a line of text, press the Shift key and roll the trackwheel.
   
9. To cut ...

If ÜberTwitter is the Twitter client you fancy you'll wanna be sure to grab the latest release from their download page. Version 0.933 contains many bug fixes and improvements over the previous beta release that is sure to please many users out there. Some of the changes are:

• Map Provider - Allow users to select either MapQuest (default) or BlackBerry maps to display users locations. User action to retrieve a map You now have to click the ‘Retrieve Map’ button after opening a tweet in order for the map to be retrieved. This will result in substantially lower bandwidth requirements and improved battery life.
• UberChannel date display bug fix - Fixed a bug where tweets in UberChannel streams had the date incorrectly displayed.
• Resetting tweets to retrieve bug - Fixed bug where on an upgrade the number of tweets to retrieve would reset to 60.
• Highlight color in Midnight Theme bubble ...

Mike Lazaridis just announced the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet:

Here are some features:

• Dual cameras
• 1080p HD video with HDMI output
• Can have dual screens showing something else on the HDMI output as the screen
• Compatible with BlackBerry Enterprise
• Full html browser with Flash 10.1 and hardware acceleration
• 1GHz processor in dual core setup symmetrical and distributed processing.
• Ultra Thin 9.7mm size

Running the new BlackBerry Tablet OS

Check out the Blackberry Playbook Preview Video

BlackBerry App World 2.0 has been officially released and is now ready for download.  Developers can now offer paid applications for $0.99 and $1.99, making App World 2.0 much more competitive with application stores on other platforms.  BlackBerry App World 2.0 also introduces BlackBerry ID which allows users to log in using their email address to access the new features of App World 2.0.

BlackBerry App World 2.0 Features:

• Credit card and wireless billing options
• Barcode scanning capabilities
• Apps starting at 99 cents
• Streamlined My World view
• New ‘Top 25′ lists

You can download BlackBerry App World 2.0 via the older version of App World, or, OTA by heading to http://www.blackberry.com/appworld via BlackBerry Browser.

[via Rimarkable]

This update was supposed to come out back in May but it is finally here! You can download it now in App World though it is not showing up for everybody including myself. I am not sure what is new in this version but back in March it was rumored to bring:

• Faster load times
• Video uploading
• Replacing BIS-E notifications with BlackBerry Push APIs

Let us know what you find in the new version. Download it at this link.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

[via Berry Review]

Over the weekend my Tour had a minor disagreement with an app I installed. I tried to reboot after I added the application, and my device wouldn't boot past the VZW splash screen. I had no access to a PC, so I was stuck with a dead device for two days. In my research and hopes of getting up and running, I came across the RIM article on how to boot in safe mode. We touched on this a while back, but never really got into any detail. Now, I also found out this doesn't work on the current Tour OS (for me anyway), but supposedly it works with most devices running OS 4.6 and higher. The basic idea behind it is that much like Safe Mode on a PC, booting your device this way allows you to uninstall any "bad" applications by loading the bare essentials ...

The BlackBerry calendar application not only allows you to set new events, but also will allow you to add alarms easily. For those of you who use alarms throughout the day as reminders, you can now set alarms to wake you up, walk your dog, take medicines or whatever other reminders you may need throughout the day. What's great about this is that you are easily able to set multiple alarms for the same day, and they don't have to be the same time as yesterday or tomorrow's alarms. Now, how do you add these you may ask, well lets take a look at this very simple procedure.

All you will need to do in order to set up your various alarms for that day would be to enter your calendar application, press menu and then scroll to new alarm. Here you can set a subject for ...

I've always tried to keep my email organized, leaving messages unread if I know they need a reply. This at times can be a pain since having to scroll through insane amounts of messages on my BlackBerry isn't always the quickest option. Chatting with Ronen a few days back, he let me know about a quick tip that was actually posted on BerryReview way back in March. I had no idea you could save a search and assign a shortcut to it. I tweaked up a quick search of unread messages, assigned ALT+U as the shortcut and that was that. Now when I'm in my messages, I simply need to use ALT+U to see all my unread messages. I'm sure many of you knew this feature existed, but I figured passing it along to those who didn't couldn't hurt :-)

Create saved search ...