Tips: How to Change Your Icon Email Name

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If you have a lot of emails push to your Blackberry, like mine I have 8 emails set in my Storm for a lot of different purposes, from private mail, mailing list to my business, this tip is gonna help you a lot. Here is how:

1. Go to Email Settings
2. Log In to your BIS Email Settings
3. Choose one of your email
4. Change the Email Account Name to anything you like
5. Hit Save

So with this, you can change from a boring user@gmail.com name to something more meaningful or whatever you like it.

Happy trying

Note: If you wonder why all my emails don't use the default icon, hit here to custom it

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Video Blackberry Platform

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Here is a short video of Blackberry Platform exploiting the benefits of using Blackberry as your smartphones especially if you are business users. Enjoy

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Do Different Grip and Measure Your Signal Meter with Antenna Meter

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As the claim by Steve Jobs regarding different grip of your smartphone can cause different level of attenuation continue buzzing around the web. Xtreme Labs released an application for Blackberry to do different kind of grips and monitor the effect to your signal strength and then share it if you want to. Grab the app here and share it to the comment below :)

Additional  Info:
If you want to know each bar represent what dBm check graph below.

For non-touchscreen Blackberry, you can change your default signal bar to number dBm strength by pressing alt + N M L L

Happy gripping :)

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Tips: How to Make Your Blackberry Text Bigger

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Here is a short tip. If you have hard time to read text on your Blackberry, change your font size by going to Options>Screen/Keyboard. Change Font Size to bigger value, you can check how big the size from the sample text before you hit Save. You can change the typeface as well by change the Font Family to other values. Hit Save when you are done.

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Tips: How to Write SMS Without Autotext

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Often our typing style when writing SMS is different than our usual writing or when writing BBM or chat as 160 chars limitation on SMS and with autotext on writing our "abbreviation" style is a bit difficult as some of it will be interpreted as autotext. Here is short tip how to turn it off

1. Go to Options>SMS Text
2. Change Disable AutoText to Yes
3. Hit Save

Now you can type your way when writing SMS

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Tips: Wipe Clean Your Blackberry Before You Sell It

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Here is a simple thing you want to do before you swap for new Blackberry (more Blackberry with bigger memory and OS 6 is coming this year :D ) or resell it:

1. Go to Options>Security Options>Security Wipe
2. Check all options
   
   
   
   1. Emails, Contacts, etc
   2. User Installed Applications
   3. Media Card - if you sell out your memory card too, make sure you have backup your multimedia and other important documents you put in your card
   
   
3. Type "blackberry" and click Wipe. Wait until the process finish
4. You are ready to sell your Blackberry now 

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Tips: How to Setup Blackberry Email Filters

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Blackberry Email filter is used for a lot of purposes, you can use it to send certain email with level 1 notification, not push certain emails to your Blackberry, push only important emails etc. Hence, it can help you to organize your inbox to your taste.
Here is how to set filter from your Blackberry:

1. Go to your Email Settings (Setup > Email Settings)
2. Login to your Email Settings, if you already have username
3. Choose which email you want to put filter on
4. Press button  to go to filter wizard
5. First screen is list out all filters applied to the email and also what to do when no filters apply. The default is forward messages to the device. Click Add Filter to enter new filter.
   
   
   
6. Enter filter name, for example "email from colleague"
   
   
   
7. Next, choose what field to filter on:
   
   
   1. CC address
   2. From address
   3. High priority email
   4. New email
   5. Subject
   6. To address
8. After you choose what field, then you put what kind of content it has to be filtered. For example: I choose Field Subject that contains "project update"
9. Click Add. You can add more conditions if you want to. For example: I want to be notified with level 1 notification for Subject contains "project update" that comes From address "ferdinand@drifesolution.com"
10. Next you choose the action, whether to forward the messages or not. If you choose to forward then you have 2 options: header only (means you need to Get More to read the content, this is very unlikely used if you have unlimited plan) and level 1 notification (you can set level 1 notification on your profile)
11. Click Save

For this tip, I setup 2 filters on my email:

1. Do not forward me any emails that the subject contains "oot". OOT stands for "Out of Topic"
2. Give me level 1 notification for email with subject contains "project update" and comes from "ferdinand@drifesolution.com"

Note: here is some notes to be considered when designing filter for your Blackberry

1. the contains is case-insensitive and uses wildcard characters (*). So filter email with subject "project update" and "Project Update" will catch email with subject "Project Update", "PROJECT UPDATE", "this month prOject Update", "latest project update of this week" and other combinations
2. if you put more than 1 condition, like in my example; subject "project update" or from "ferdinand@drifesolution.com". It will be read like this: Forward messages to this device with level 1 notification if the subject contains "project update" or "ferdinand@drifesolution.com". Means any condition results true, the filter will be applied
3. Filters on each email is read with precedence from top to bottom and applied immediately. For example if I create my above example filters in this order:
   
   
   1. Forward messages with subject "project update" or from "ferdinand@drifesolution.com"
   2. Do not forward messages with subject "oot"
   Filter no 2 will be failed if I receive email from "ferdinand@drifesolution.com" with subject "oot" because when it reads filter no 1 and results true, it will carry out the action immediately. So put more general filter on top then less general to the bottom.
4. You can set filter from your PC as well by going to http://.blackberry.com

That's all. Happy trying :)

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