Posted by
kdawson
on from the maze-of-twisty-stupid-tricks dept.
Wolfger writes "Continuing the recent(useful)stupidtheme: I've recently become a BlackBerry user, and I'm in love with the obvious(?) tricks, such as installing MidpSSH to access my home box remotely. But I'd like to know what more experienced Crackberry addicts can share."
Re:What the fuck?
by
nitio
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I foresee a story about some stupid, yet useful, things you can do in your iPhone...
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http://stoploudness.org/
Auto On and Off + Blacklists
by
Tryfen
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Two Top Tips to Improve your Work/Life Balance.
1) Want to make sure you're not disturbed once you've left work?
Options - Auto On/Off. Set the BlackBerry to switch itself off after 1830 and automatically on at 0830 (adjust for your work patterns).
2) Sick of getting Every. Single. Fricking. Email?
Mail - Options - Email Filters. My BlackBerry is set only to receive emails from my immediate boss, his boss, my wife, family, and anything with the subject "Urgent".
Sadly - you can't automatically switch them on/off. But at the weekend, you can go in and switch off the work filters. Hey presto, you'll only get the email you really care about at the weekend.
T
-- If a square is really a rhombus, why aren't all triangles purple?
PIN Messaging
by
SCHecklerX
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I have a blackberry for personal use. For friends who also have them, I use PIN messaging instead of SMS. For more involved conversations, I point them to the blackberry messenger app that does IM type messaging (including audio notes, images, other attachments) rather than make them install something like jivetalk.
PINs are really nice for a few reasons: 1) direct berry to berry messaging 2) you know when the message has been delivered 3) they can have a separate alert from regular SMS messages 4) they don't eat up messages from the expensive monthly SMS bucket. Heck if everyone you need to SMS has a blackberry, you don't need to add sms to your plan at all. This assumes your data plan is unlimited and your SMS plan is ridiculously expensive.
Drawbacks: 1) must have a data capable cell signal, whereas SMS works anywhere a phonecall works. 2) for whatever reason, PINs don't automatically move your highlight to the latest in the BB messages list like SMS messages do. 3) the blackberry messenger alerts are wonky. There is no "first message" vs "everything else" option, so you either have an alert each time or never. Alerting when friends are on or not must be set after every conversation, vs. the 'buddy pounce' feature of jivetalk. Messenger would be a lot more useful if they'd fix those two things.
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I foresee a story about some stupid, yet useful, things you can do in your iPhone...
http://stoploudness.org/
Two Top Tips to Improve your Work/Life Balance.
1) Want to make sure you're not disturbed once you've left work?
Options - Auto On/Off. Set the BlackBerry to switch itself off after 1830 and automatically on at 0830 (adjust for your work patterns).
2) Sick of getting Every. Single. Fricking. Email?
Mail - Options - Email Filters.
My BlackBerry is set only to receive emails from my immediate boss, his boss, my wife, family, and anything with the subject "Urgent".
Sadly - you can't automatically switch them on/off. But at the weekend, you can go in and switch off the work filters. Hey presto, you'll only get the email you really care about at the weekend.
T
If a square is really a rhombus, why aren't all triangles purple?
I have a blackberry for personal use. For friends who also have them, I use PIN messaging instead of SMS. For more involved conversations, I point them to the blackberry messenger app that does IM type messaging (including audio notes, images, other attachments) rather than make them install something like jivetalk.
PINs are really nice for a few reasons:
1) direct berry to berry messaging
2) you know when the message has been delivered
3) they can have a separate alert from regular SMS messages
4) they don't eat up messages from the expensive monthly SMS bucket. Heck if everyone you need to SMS has a blackberry, you don't need to add sms to your plan at all. This assumes your data plan is unlimited and your SMS plan is ridiculously expensive.
Drawbacks:
1) must have a data capable cell signal, whereas SMS works anywhere a phonecall works.
2) for whatever reason, PINs don't automatically move your highlight to the latest in the BB messages list like SMS messages do.
3) the blackberry messenger alerts are wonky. There is no "first message" vs "everything else" option, so you either have an alert each time or never. Alerting when friends are on or not must be set after every conversation, vs. the 'buddy pounce' feature of jivetalk. Messenger would be a lot more useful if they'd fix those two things.