How-To: Block Messages From Your BlackBerry Smartphone

A couple of my “crackberry” colleagues wanted to know if it was possible for them to block certain messages from getting to their inbox. Well fortunately RIM has a really nifty feature built into BlackBerry smartphones OS, the ability to block specific types of incoming messages using the firewall. This feature will allow you block text messages and PIN messages – as well as personal or enterprise email messages – from arriving on your BlackBerry smartphone.

You’re Killing Me With The Reply All

Hey there, really quick post to get this pet peeve out of my system. It would appear to me that people are not sure how to use the Reply All button on their e-mail client. Could it be because its a little bigger it gets in the way and gets clicked by accident? Could it be that the individual believes that his/her thoughts are important and earth-shattering enough that everyone needs to be aware of them?

Managing Your Cloud Computing Life

Cloud computing, is slowly but surely gaining traction. For personal use, most people have a GoogleDocs, LiveDrive, SkyDrive, Windows Azure, Rackspace Cloud, Amazon S3, FTP server, or whatever branded or un-branded cloud storage service that’s out there. This is a good start to your cloud computing life. A few people have asked about uploading and managing files on multiple cloud storage services.

Extend Your Windows Taskbar Across Multiple Monitors

Windows 7 is great with the setting up of multiple monitors and does this with the greatest of ease, almost effortlessly for most. The support is so simple that its a shame not to do it. That said, my only issue with the Windows 7 multiple monitors support setup is the lack of the Taskbar on each monitor.

User Account Control, Friend Or Nuisance?

In a bid to reduce the damaging effects of malware, spyware and viruses, Microsoft instituted the User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista and Windows 7, to help prevent unauthorized changes to your system without your expressed permission.

Google Gmail Outage Has Everyone Scared!

If you use Gmail, then you were among the over 17 million users who were worried if your account was among the 150,000+ accounts that were temporarily wiped out by a bug in Google’s software yesterday. I wasn’t in that unfortunate scare.

Blocking Wireless Networks For Security Reasons

Wireless networks, they are everywhere and we love them. Wireless router manufacturers are making the setting up of wireless network as easy as plug-and-connect so there is nothing difficult these days in getting your very own home/office wireless network up and running.

Adding An E-mail Account To Your BlackBerry

Hello All, I’m now trying to get back into the writing groove, so here’s my first article since the “slump”. Now a lot of my friends and colleagues are now BlackBerry users and I get asked some questions over and over again. One such question is “How do I get my ISP e-mail account on my BlackBerry?” I know that there are tonnes of articles and step-by-step guides out there that speaks to this very question, but my friends and colleagues seem to prefer when the instructions are coming directly from me.

Readers Corner: Using Desktop Manager To Fix Or Upgrade Your BlackBerry

Welcome to my Readers Corner. This is where I publish little articles that are generated by you my faithful few readers. If you have something you would like to write about, then please do and send it in to me and I will put it up. Of course it would have to be in keeping with my website theme, and I have the right to edit it in whatever way I deem relevant. Every contributor will be credited, either by full name or pseudo name.

Step-By-Step Guide For Upgrading Your BlackBerry Smartphone OS

First off the line, let me say that what I’m about to impart is not the only way to upgrade your BlackBerry OS, nor do I consider it the best way of doing it. All I’m doing is providing you with the steps and tools that I have used to perform over 30 different OS upgrades on at least 6 different BlackBerry models.