Blackberry Tips

Kevin over at Crackberry.com brings up a great use for all of our blackberry’s.   I’ve had to do it plenty of times for trips to the can.

My 8830 gives off a glow that’s good enough not to stub my toe in the dark.

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Each BlackBerry has a unique PIN. This is not your 4-digit PIN for your SIM card, but an 8 character long value that is used to identify your device against the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. So this PIN is not used in the common understanding of “PIN” for logging in, like your using phone SIM card, ATM card, Online banking.

BlackBerry PIN Howto

To figure out what your BlackBerry PIN is you can try two ways:

1. Starting on your BlackBerry Desktop you go to Options->Scroll Down->Status->Scroll down 5 rows now you should see your BlackBerry PIN.
2. Create a new memo or go into any other app where you can type text and type ‘mypin ‘, including the space. You will see your PIN appear.

ESPN has just launched their own Sports Application for Blackberry Devices.   The Application is free and can be downloaded over the air.  Just visit http://espn.mobi/bblauncher from your blackberry’s browser for a free download.

ESPN Sports on the go.

Do you have a gmail account? Do you own a blackberry? If you answered yes to both of these questions then you probably have had the annoying instance of having your sent items pop into your blackberry inbox. It can get pretty frustrating if you send out tons of emails. You can prevent this by happening by setting up a Stop Send Box Gmail Filter in your weblient.  Here’s an example.

Works like a piece of cake.

Make your 8830, 8100 or Blackberry Curve look like an Iphone