Chris K Designs

I spend way too much time on my Blackberry Curve. I won’t deny it. But it wasn’t until recently that a found some great tricks to make my time spent on my Crackberry more efficient. I found it rather annoying having to scroll around my menu so often as I bounced around from application to application. Being a huge fan of keyboard shortcuts, I wanted to find shortcuts for my Blackberry. Here are my findings for the home screen.

Home Screen Shortcuts

*Dial from Home Screen must be turned off for these to work.  Phone>Options>Dial From Home Screen>No.

I hope these help you as much as they have helped me! I’m working on a list of all the little tips and shortcuts I can find for the message services next. Stay tuned!

Update: For those of you who ask about my ‘cover’ for my Curve, I am using this one:
BlackBerry Rubberized Skin

It happens to all of us as some point in our lives (well those of us with websites that is) that just as we’re about to advertise our online presence, release a major update, or go to present to your boss the new look of your site, *BAM* your site will not resolve or your awesome scripting does not work correctly.

While I will admit that sometimes the fault does rest on the server that the site is hosted on, there are a few things you should avoid saying (or typing) to your tech support that will save you from looking somewhat ignorant to the world of tech.

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I take a lot of flack at work for being a Mac user and using mostly all Apple products to compute, listen to music, and manage my media. I had tried out Songbird quite a while back in the early beta days and I just never could get used to it. Well, the developers have released version 1.0 and guess what!? Nothing has changed. I still can’t peal myself away from the slickness of iTunes’ media management and overall experience. You want examples? They are after the fold.

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