BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) Best Practices: Six Tips
Feb 4, 2010 Tips & Tricks
I came across this little doozy of gem online on the CIO website. Al Sacco covers six good tips about using the BBM on your device that you might not have considered. Perhaps my favorite is the “Do not abuse the broadcast message feature”.
I was surprised to see the part about not broadcasting your PIN on public forums like twitter and FB, as thats a common way to hook up with your friends, but he does have a good point. Its all about keeping the spam down (much like you don’t post your full email address in public either). Anyway, take a look at the Post and let me know if you have anything you’d like to add to the list.
Tags: Add, Blackberry, blackberry messenger, groups, Messenger, pin
How to turn off message that your message was forwarded by besadmin
Feb 1, 2010 Technology, Tips & Tricks
The service account used by BES is known as BESAdmin. BESAdmin required Send As permissions on all of the mailboxes within the organization. Once these permissions are setup; service account can forward emails to the devices as if the email was sent by the original sender. There is a complex algorithm in the form of MDS, Mailbox agents and so on runs in background which takes care of it fine.
Since Exchange Server 2007 started grabbing production environments people started implementing BES along with it too. I have always been observing an issue with most of the people that they complain, when they send a meeting request to someone using their BB handheld they are notified that their message was forwarded by BESAdmin or whatever is the name of their BES Service account. This notification looks like:
Your meeting was forwarded
besadmin has forwarded your meeting request to additional recipients.
MeetingM
Meeting Time
Monday, March 30, 2009 3:00 PM-4:00 PM.
Recipients
‘someone@domain.com’
This is not a non delivery report or an error report either. This is just a notification like other MDNs in Exchange Server 2007.
To resolve this issue. You simply need to disable the forwarded meeting notification on the service account. In my environment I call it, BESAdmin. So here you go with the commandlet.
Get-MailboxCalendarSettings –Identity “BESAdmin” | Select RemoveForwardedMeetingNotifications
Ideally, above command should return the status of the RemoveForwardedMeetingNotifications as $False
Now, you have to set it to true. Run the following cmdlet.
Set-MailboxCalendarSettings –Identity “BESAdmin” -RemoveForwardedMeetingNotifications $True
And that should be it. It should stop all those forwarded meeting notifications.
Tags: BESAdmin, commandlet, exchange, meeting, microsoft, settings
Tips to Increase the Speed of the BlackBerry Browser
Jan 5, 2010 Berry, Hack, Tips & Tricks
There are a few things that you can do to significantly increase the speed of the BlackBerry Browser.
1. Turn Off Show Images: Downloading images takes a lot of bandwidth, and strains your BlackBerry when loading them. From the Browser Options –> Browser Configuration screen, set Show Images = no, and uncheck “Use Background Images”.
Note: You can easily download the images for any page by pressing “M” for more images, or “Q” for all images. These options are also available from the menu.
2. Turn Off JavaScript Support: Some JavaScripts are very large and can’t be processed by your BlackBerry anyways, so turning off JavaScript support will not only save on bandwidth, but on processing time by your BlackBerry.
Tags: Blackberry, Browser, Speed, Tips
How To Extend Your Blackberry’s Battery Life
Dec 18, 2009 Devices, Hack, Tips & Tricks
There are several things you can do to extend the life of your battery between charges.
- Set Email Filters. Yes that’s right, set some email filters to block unnecessary messages received on your handheld. The fewer wireless transmissions your BlackBerry makes, the longer your battery will last.
- Decrease the backlight timeout and/or brightness. This is especially true for the newer 7100, and 7290 handhelds. Go to Options –> Screen/Keyboard to set the backlight options.
- Disable wireless sync on applications that you do not use, e.g. Memopad. Is it really necessary to transmit memopad data over the air? If not, then just disable Wireless Synchronization from the Memopad Options.
- Turn Wireless Off when you are in areas of poor coverage. The BlackBerry will greatly increase it’s output in poor coverage, and this can be very draining on your battery.
- Set the Auto On/Off. Unless you’re on call 24 hours a day, chances are you won’t be using your BlackBerry late at night. So set the Auto On/Off to shut your BlackBerry off.
- Set your profiles to have the BlackBerry vibrate and ring less often. Even just reducing the number of beeps can give you a little extra battery life.
As a last resort, if your BlackBerry battery simply doesn’t last long enough, you can buy an extra battery. If you have any tips or tricks you’d like to share with us, leave a comment or hit us on Twitter
Change/Release your BB Pin in minutes!
Nov 19, 2009 DIY, Tips & Tricks
Read the rest of this entry » There comes a time in every blackberry users life when he (or she) needs to release their pin so it can go live on a farm somewhere nice with other released pins or more accurately, so they can resell their device and let the pin go too. Most of the time, users are forced to deal with their carrier and have to wait for the carrier’s drones to do it for you. Not any more. I’m going to show you how to do it in less then five minutes as long as you have a device with an available pin (or no device at all?).
Tags: Blackberry, carrier, change, pin, Release
Blackberry Exchange: Install Blackberry Desktop Activation Software
Oct 14, 2009 Tips & Tricks
Author: Adrian Gates
Install Blackberry Desktop Activation Software
Activation of the Blackberry can also be performed by cradling the device to the computer and using the Desktop Redirector software provided by the carrier. Read the rest of this entry »
First you need to check the version of your Blackberry Handheld by clicking on Option and then About. If you have version 4.0 or greater, you should use the Enterprise Activation method.
How To Rip Dvd And Convert Video To Blackberry Devices
Oct 14, 2009 Berry, Tips & Tricks
Author: hanstrong
BlackBerry is now a very popular phone for both business people and regular cell phone users. This guide is mainly about how to rip DVD and Convert Video to BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Bold and other BlackBerry serials such as BlackBerry Pearl, Curve etc.
This article includes two parts:
Part1. How to Rip DVD and Convert Video to BlackBerry on Windows?
Part2. How to Rip DVD and Convert Video to BlackBerry on Mac?
Part 1. How to Rip DVD and Convert Video to BlackBerry on Windows?
Tether your Blackberry and Mac! #blackberry #mac
Aug 20, 2009 Tips & Tricks
For those Blackberry Users who use a PC as their standard computer of choice, tethering has been an easy task from almost the word go. Mac users haven’t been so lucky. Until now. RIM has released a new knowledgebase article that explains, in simple to follow steps, how to tether your Blackberry and Mac via bluetooth so you can use the Berry as a modem.
A BlackBerry smartphone with tethered modem over Bluetooth® capabilities can be used as an external modem to connect an Apple Macintosh computer to the Internet.
The Article can be found Here in the Blackberry Technical Center and breaks it down nicely. If anyone cares to give it a go and let us know how it works, please do.
Wyndham Hotel Group Kicks Off Mobile Platform Strategy for 10 Brands
Jun 12, 2009 Tips & Tricks
PARSIPPANY, N.J. (June 12, 2009) – Travelers now have access to an easier and faster way to reach Wyndham Hotel Group hotels through 10 newly created branded mobile Web sites.
Developed to address growing consumer demand for mobile commerce, and to offer a more complete travel resource to customers, Wyndham Hotel Group’s new mobile Web sites provide users with nearly all of the same content and functionality as each brand’s PC Web site and have been optimized for use on more than 5,000 types of devices, including the Apple iPhone® and the Blackberry® CurveTM . Wyndham Hotel Group customers may now easily download maps and turn-by-turn directions, view property photos, and research hotel amenities and brand promotions via a handheld device at their convenience.
“Wyndham Hotel Group recognizes that the consumer desires a multi-dimensional booking experience and it is our goal to meet that need by providing travelers with easy mobile assess to our hotel’s Web sites,” said Scott Lunsford, Wyndham Hotel Group vice president of eProducts and Internet Solutions. “We now offer our customers a mobile interface that is not only full featured and intuitive, but is also accessible on a wide array of devices.”
Searching for the nearest location and making or modifying reservations directly from a cellular phone or handheld computer is now possible through these hotel brand specific mobile sites, representing nearly 7,000 hotels worldwide: Ramada®, Days Inn®, Super 8®, Wingate® by Wyndham, Baymont Inn & Suites®, Microtel Inns & Suites®, Hawthorn Suites®, Howard Johnson®, Travelodge® and Knights Inn®.
Access to the sites is available through established brand Web addresses, such as www.daysinn.com and www.super8.com, which, when entered into a mobile phone’s Internet browser, detect the type of phone being used and adapt to provide the user with the best possible experience.
Wyndham Hotel Group, one of three principal components of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: WYN), encompasses approximately 7,000 hotels and 588,500 rooms in 66 countries under the hotel brands: Wyndham Hotels and Resorts®, Ramada, Days Inn, Super 8, Wingate by Wyndham, Baymont Inn & Suites, Microtel Inn & Suites, Hawthorn Suites, Howard Johnson, Travelodge and Knights Inn.
All hotels are independently owned and operated excluding certain Wyndham and international Ramada hotels which are managed by our affiliate or through a joint venture partner. Wyndham Hotel Group is based in Parsippany, N.J. Additional information is available at www.wyndhamworldwide.com.
Dial a Dash!
Jan 5, 2009 Tips & Tricks
This tip was sent in by mcangeli
One of the nice features of having a full keyboard on your handset is that you no longer have to remember what the numbers behind the words mean when dialing things like goog-411 or 877-4-fish or something like that.
The easy thing to do is simply dial the number. In the case of goog411 you would do: 1 800 as normal and now the tricky part, hold down the alt key while typing the regular word (goog) then dial the 411 like normal. Your screen will show 1800GOOG411 and when you hit send it will dial correctly!
