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For work or pleasure I use group emails a lot. Group emails are very simple to set up and saves time. If you take pictures with your BlackBerry and want to send the picture to more than one person, then groups is the way to go.  Even for work projects, which email lists tend to change quite a bit, editing, renaming, adding or removing contacts and or the group itself is simple.

STEP 1  Open your contacts then hit the menu button and select New Group.

STEP 2 Select New Group then Name your group.

STEP 3 Hit your Menu key and select Add Member

STEP 4 Add your Contacts/Members for your new group.

STEP 5 When done adding contacts/members hit menu and select Save Group.

The Group you created will be in your contacts, so if you want to add or remove contacts or edit the name of the group just open your contacts go to the group, hit the menu key and select view group.

This will more than likely not be new information for most BlackBerry users, but I did receive on question today about this so here is the info for those that find it useful.

First thing to do is select options.
Then under options select Screen/Keyboard.
From this location you can select:

• Font Family
• Font Size
• Font Style

Simply move your scroll over the item you want to change and select it. This will open a drop down menu with options for you to choose from.
While making Changes please notice the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.“  This sentence will show you the results as you go through the options. When complete use the back key and select save. Done!!

To set or change where photos are stored by default, follow these steps:
1. From the home screen, press the Menu key.
2. Select the Camera application.
3. Once the camera application has loaded, press the Menu key
4. Select Options.
5. At the bottom of the options menu, you can change whether pictures are stored on the media card or in device memory. You can also change which folder pictures are saved in.

To set or change the default location for stored videos, follow these steps:
1. From the home screen, press the Menu key.
2. Select Media.
3. Select Videos.
4. From the Videos menu, select the Video Camera application, located at the top of the list application, located at the top of the list.
5. Press the Menu key.
6. Select Options.
7. Press the Menu key.
8. Select Options.
9. At the bottom of the options menu, you can change which folder videos are stored in by default.

Extra Notes:
1 You can also access the video camera while in Camera mode. While in Camera Mode simply click the menu key and select Video Camera.
2  Remember videos cannot be stored on the device memory only on a Media Card.

One thing that I use a lot everyday is my Calendar. Setting up appointments religiously is what helps me be on time and remembering something I am supposed to do all day everyday. Even on a Saturday morning when I  scheduled  it a week in advance.

If you are one that uses a paper calendar at home and/or work and are great at keeping things written down as I used to do, will find out that your BlackBerry is the one thing that is always with you. Numerous times my Daughter ends up having a last minute school activity on Saturday, then out to eat after-wards, maybe we decide to go grocery shopping before heading home. Meanwhile  my paper calendar at home has no way of letting me know I have a 3 o’clock appointment written down. My BlackBerry that is always with me would have let me know just that.

The biggest tip I can offer is; “Use Your BlackBerry Calendar”.

One thing I would suggest is to enable quick entry by going to Calendar, Menu Key, Options, General Options then under Actions set enable quick entry to Yes. (Device Default is set to No)

When Quick Entry is enabled, you can add appointments by following these steps:
1. In Day View, type the name you wish to give the appointment.
2. In parentheses, type the location of the appointment.
3. Roll the trackball to select the end time for the appointment and then click the trackball to save.
4. Yes that simple!

**Note** When enabling Quick Entry the hot-key shortcuts for Calendar will be disabled. (Small sacrifice for the ability to enter appointments on the fly.) The Hot-Keys simply let you switch Views of Day, Week, Month ect.. ect.. and you can still do this from your menu key.

If you have other helpful things to offer please leave a comment and share with everyone.

I posted about these little but handy shortcuts back in July and thought I would re-post the article for those that may find it helpful. Alot of  BlackBerry Users probaly use these shortcuts on a regular basis, but for those who didn’t know about these; Enjoy!

When entering your Phone Number into an Email, Calendar Event Notes, Memo Pad, Tasks or pretty much anything you enter information into on your BlackBerry,  you can always use these shortcuts. All you have to do is type in mynumber then hit the space key and your phone number will now be displayed.

When you need to know your PIN number or need to send it to someone its pretty much the same process. Type in mypin then hit the space key and your PIN number will now be displayed.

When you need to know your Model number and OS version or need to send it to someone, type in myver then hit the space key and your info will be displayed.

If you want to see what shorcuts are available when browsing on your BlackBerry you can see a previous article HERE!

I use a lot of these shortcuts on a daily basis and figured this may be some new information for some BlackBerry® users.

While in your Browser viewing a web site using the following keys will give you the following results for most current models.

P (Will show you the page address you are on and give you the option to copy or send the address.)

I (Zoom In on the page)
O (Zoom out on the page)
U (Full Screen view)
Y (Shows your History)
R (Refreshes the Screen)
A (Add the current  site to your bookmarks)
S (Browser Option/Settings)
D (Close/Exit out of Browser)
F and V (Search)
G (Opens Browser as Go To shortcut)
H (Takes you to your set Home Page)
K (opens your Bookmarks)
Del<- (Back Page)
Z  (Maximize & Minimize if available)
C (Connection Information)
T (Top of Page)
B (Bottom of Page)

If you know of any other shortcuts feel free to leave a comment and shar them.

We do get questions time to time asking how to get videos from the web onto a BlackBerry Device so here is a short little video on how simple it is to do.  Since the Release of RealPlayer SP Beta I have been putting a lot of videos onto my BlackBerry®. As you will see in the video RealPlayer SP Beta takes care of the download and covertion making this program in my opinion the easiest way to get videos from the web onto your BlackBerry® without sacrificing video or audio quality.

Screen Shot of Video on my BlackBerry Screen.

You can get RealPlayer SP Beta by going HERE!

You can link to the Demo Video on YouTube by going HERE!