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Screen Capture on Blackberry

March 13, 2010 Blackberry

Screen capture utilities are required when you want to flaunt your Blackberry Home screen or when you want to accompany them along with a support query.
On support forums, query with an attached screenshot helps in quicker resolution of the issue.
Blackberry does not bundle any native application for screen capture and users have to rely on [...]

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Blackberry Contact Sync

March 8, 2010 Blackberry

Few years back, copying all contacts to the SIM was the only way of importing contacts onto a new phone. Most of the Smartphone operating systems today have better native support for address book management and synchronization.
On my old HTC Touch(running Windows Mobile), I could easily sync Outlook contacts with the device using ActiveSync. However [...]

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Blackberry Keyboard Shortcuts

February 24, 2010 Blackberry

As with any other frequently used desktop application, the first thing that I did when I got the Blackberry was to familiarize myself with the keyboard shortcuts.
Keyboard shortcuts are typically an alternate means for invoking one or more commands that would otherwise be accessible only through a menu, a pointing device, different levels of a [...]

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Unlocking Blackberry Bold 9700

February 21, 2010 Blackberry

Most of the Blackberry devices sold by RIM are locked onto a specific carrier, which means that the phone wouldn’t work with any other carriers SIM
I bought a Bold 9700 which was locked into AT&T network. There are lots of people out there selling the unlock code starting from 10$ all the way to 35$
These [...]

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Blackberry Bold 9700 released in India

January 29, 2010 Blackberry

Blackberry Bold 9700 which was released in US around mid November is now finally available in India.
There was no launch party for the Bold release like the one that happened for Singapore launch !
The BlackBerry Bold 9700 will be available nationally from multi brand outlets serviced by Redington India as well as from operators [...]

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BlackBerry Bold 9700

January 1, 2010 Blackberry

In my earlier review of HTC Touch, I had hoped that the phone would last for couple of years; it did last for more than couple of years – 2.5 years to be exact and got replaced by a much superior, nicer, faster Blackberry Bold 9700
HTC Touch was a nice phone but not a [...]

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Time Zone problem on Windows Mobile

December 28, 2008 Mobile

The HTC Touch phone that I have been using from 18 months had turned into a nightmare from the past 2 months.
I do use the phone extensively to synch my Outlook contacts and calendar appointments. However from the past few weeks, I was seeing that the Time Zone on the phone used to default back [...]

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HTC Touch Diamond

May 24, 2008 Mobile

HTC Touch Diamond was unveiled in London 2 weeks back and even India is part of the global launch of the handset.
As with the case of HTC Touch, HTC Diamond will also be available via Bharti Airtel, which means that the device will be locked onto Airtel Network.
I am confident that the intelligent folks [...]

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Airtel website hacked ?

May 1, 2008 Mobile

My 8Mbps broadband plan is sucking out money from the past 2 months; somehow I am managing to exceed the 4GB download limit.
With the intent of checking on some new plans, I tried to access the Airtel website http://www.airtel.in
I ended up with this:

The URL was being re-directed to http://www.airtel.in/srilanka/srilanka….. Looks like the site was hacked [...]

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HTC Customer Service in India

April 29, 2008 Mobile

Many of the visitors who land on my HTC related posts have contacted me to know more details on HTC Customer Service. I was initially surprised as to why these users couldn’t get this data via Google.
I did a search for HTC India on Google only to find crappy pages listed on the first page [...]

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