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Five Tip Friday – BlackBerry Ty’s Favorite PlayBook Tips

Ty Williams — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:06:40 +0000

Whether you are a new BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet owner (maybe you got one for the holidays?) or have had one for a while, here are five of my favorite tips for quicker and more efficient use of the tablet. I hope you can use these to maximize your awesome BlackBerry PlayBook tablet experience!

1. Show and Hide the Keyboard

Whenever you need to quickly access the keyboard, just swipe in from the bottom left of the bezel. To hide the keyboard when you are finished, tap on the hide keyboard button that appears in the bottom left corner.

Guide to customizing your BlackBerry 6 home screen

Ty Williams — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:57:54 +0000

When BlackBerry® 6 was released, some pretty cool customization features were added to the home screen. Today I’ll be going over some of these new features, so grab your BlackBerry 6-enabled device and try out some of these tips right now. All that’s required is a BlackBerry smartphone using BlackBerry 6 OS software!

(To find out if BlackBerry 6 is available for your particular BlackBerry smartphone model, check out the following post which provides information on how to perform a web-based BlackBerry software update. Provided your wireless provider supports it, you may be able to upgrade to BlackBerry 6.)

Let’s get started!

What does this icon on my BlackBerry home screen mean?

Ty Williams — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:00:00 +0000

(Curious about all the how-to/help content on Inside BlackBerry recently? All will be revealed soon — but as a hint, there’s something coming to our happy blog family a little later in September. Stay tuned, and for now enjoy another informative post from Ty! – ed.)

Have you ever encountered an icon along the top banner of your BlackBerry® smartphone home screen notifying you that something has arrived, but you don’t exactly know what the icon is for? If so, let me show you how to identify what the icon means!

The first thing we need to do is find a useful resource that outlines the purpose of each notification icon. This can be achieved by visiting the BlackBerry Product Documentation website and reviewing the documentation available for your specific BlackBerry smartphone. Listed below is an example of the icon definitions for Message List items that I obtained after reviewing the BlackBerry® Storm2™ smartphone ‘Start Here’ guide:

The icons above are just a few of the notification icons you may receive on your BlackBerry smartphone. In the event that you encounter one you are not familiar with, review your BlackBerry smartphone user guide at
http://docs.blackberry.com
– this will help you determine the icon’s meaning. It is possible for add-on applications to produce notifications icons, such as Twitter® for BlackBerry smartphones and Facebook® for BlackBerry smartphones. If an icon is displayed that you cannot identify even after reviewing the user guide, please reference the BlackBerry Device Software thread at BlackBerry Support Forums.

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