App Review: Aerize Email Alerts

When one of your contacts calls, you can be alerted to their identity through a custom ringtone, and/or with name and photo flashed on the screen of your BlackBerry. But what if your contact sends your BlackBerry an email or text message? Your phone can alert you that a message has arrived, but can't help you identify who the sender is ...

Hot Sites for BlackBerry Themes: Pearl, Curve, Bold

Time to give your BlackBerry a snazzy new look, with a free, premium, or custom theme? This article provides links to some of the hottest sites for BlackBerry themes for the Pearl, Curve, and Bold.   (Pictured to the right is a custom theme by Cherri Chiodo of All Things Berry: Aluminum Zen.)  

BlackBerry Bold User Guides

As most of us wait, and wait, and wait for the BlackBerry Bold to be released in our part of the world, at least we can start browsing through the now-available user guides. Released to Europeans is an animated user guide (in English). Available now on newBBie.com are...

BlackBerry on MySpace

BlackBerry now has a presence on MySpace, and will soon have a custom MySpace application for your BlackBerry. What's so special about BlackBerry on MySpace?

My BlackBerry Can’t Send or Receive Email

Few problems are more aggravating than a sudden loss of email capability with your BlackBerry, but this does happen. In this article we cover a solution that works for many cases of email failure. It involves a feature of your phone that most BlackBerry users are unfamiliar with: Service Books.

Color Your BlackBerry With ColorWare

This is the ultimate in personalization of your BlackBerry Pearl, Curve, or Bold (and others): custom colors for front, sides, and back--from a dazzling array of solid and metallic colors. If you want a phone like nobody else, then read on!

BlackBerry on Google Knol

This is just a quick note that information on the BlackBerry is starting to show up on the new Google knowledgebase, Knol. If you haven't heard of, or visited, Knol yet, it has been described as a Google alternative to Wikipedia. Instead of having only one article on a particular subject, authors compete to write for the same or similar ...