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How many devices do you lug around with you? For some, it might be one too many. Plenty of people carry around two cellphones/PDAs. Then there’s the digital camera and the iPod. Soon enough, we might be adding a device like the Amazon Kindle to the list. Thanks to convergence, though, many features of these devices can be found in one place: Our cellphones.

With a BlackBerry, you’ve got a phone, the Internet, email, PDA functions, and music player built right in. If you have a Pearl or a Curve — or, soon enough, a BlackBerry 9000 — you’ve got a camera. And an e-book reader is just a download away. Today we’re going to talk about using your Blackberry as an MP3 player.

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For most of us, the BlackBerry is a relatively new revelation. While the devices have been around since 1999, they really didn’t start gaining traction until the early 21st century. And even then, BlackBerry’s popularity really started its surge recently. In November of 2004, Research In Motion announced that there were over two million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide. This was up from one million earlier in the year. So yes, that means that it took five years to get the first million, and then 10 months to get the second. The third came just six months after that, in May of 2005. Less than a year later, subscribers totaled 5 million. However, in the past two years, RIM has added another 9 million subscribers, and now boast 14 million subscribers. So in less than three-and-a-half years, 13 million people have gotten their hands on BlackBerrys.

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The BlackBerry device is a wonderful thing. RIM’s magical SmartPhone allows us to keep up speed with all of our business correspondence while on the move, as well as keep in touch with all our important contacts. We load our BlackBerries with various softwares and applications to increase our productivity and customize them with interesting themes and ringtones. We watch movies and play games and track day to day activities. All of these things require passwords and usually involve storing data on our devices that is sensitive in nature.

So what if you want to wipe your BlackBerry clean?

No I am not talking about cleaning your screen folks, I am talking about erasing all of the data that is stored and bringing the BlackBerry back to it’s factory default state.
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So I am running a BlackBerry 8700 with an OS of 4.1.xxx and I am in need of an upgrade. I am comfortable with my 8700 so it is not a hardware upgrade which is required, but rather an update of my OS to the most recent available version.

I have never attempted to modify anything on my BlackBerry up to this point, with the exception of adding and removing various applications. I am nervous about losing all of my data and settings when I get into the guts of this device and start switching things around. Will I lose it all? Will I brick my BlackBerry and have to take it in to be serviced?
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If you are unaware of what exactly Del.icio.us is, allow us to shed some light on the subject. Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website which allows users to store an unlimited amount of bookmarks on an online server. This server is accessible from any browser at any time. Additionally you have the ability to label each bookmark with a descriptive tag. These tags are searchable by you or anyone else in the Del.icio.us community, making it easy to find vast resources of information on almost any topic with minimal effort.

There are a number of reasons you may want to use Del.icio.us in combination with your BlackBerry. In this article I will discuss two of them. With a little thought however, I am sure you will be able to come up with many more.
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The first step you need to take in order to convert your DVD collection into files viewable on your BlackBerry is to find a decent software package to help you handle all that tricky video compression that is required.

There are many software packages out there that will help you complete the DVD conversion; some are free, and others carry a cost. For the purpose of this write up, we have decided to focus on one particular product, named Media Studio for BlackBerry 1.3, produced by Makayama and available for a free trial download.
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Have you ever been on a business trip and found yourself without a wifi connection for your laptop? Yes, free wifi can be found in almost all hotel/motel rooms these days, but service outages and other factors can still come into play, leaving you with no connectivity and no way to get the days work from your laptop into the hands of your team back home. Luckily for you BlackBerry owners, there is another great option available. Of course I am referring to the fact that you can use your BlackBerry as a modem during times of limited or non existent wifi access.
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We’ve all read the trouble-shooting guides, and most of the time, that’s all you need to answer your BlackBerry questions and solve those nagging problems. But sometimes, issues pop up on your handheld that seem to have no answer. This can lead to frustration and lost time while you try to figure them out. Well, worry no more – BBGeeks.com has compiled a couple of BlackBerry mysteries and solved them for you.
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After posting our guide to creating custom ringtones for your BlackBerry, we were contacted by a representative of DJTone Inc. to inform us of all the great value added options available to licensed owners of DJToneXpress. The kindly provided BBGeeks with full access to the plugins offered, so I have decided to review them here for you in an effort to provide a complete picture of what you will receive in return for your hard earned cash.

There are 5 value added plugins in total. Since the plugin descriptions are quite lengthly, I will save you the hassle of scrolling down this entire page. Simply click one of the following links to jump right to the plugin description you are interested in.
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BBScreenShooter

A small tool to capture the current screen of a 71xx, 72xx, 8xxx BlackBerry.
Download here the BBScreenShooter software here.

Note: Before you are able to use BBScreenShooter to capture images from your BlackBerry display, you will need to install the BlackBerry Desktop Software.

BBScreenStream

A small tool to constantly capture the current screen of a 71xx, 72xx, 8xxx BlackBerry and display or record it on the PC.
Download the BBScreenStream software here.

Note: Before you are able to use BBScreenStream to capture video from your BlackBerry display, you will need to install the BlackBerry Desktop Software.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of taking screenshots of your BlackBerry display. Whether you are interested in creating a demo of an existing application to show to friends/clients, or you simply need to take a quick screen grab of an error to forward to tech support, BBGeeks.com is here to help.

This primer is broken down into separate sections, each focusing on a different step in the screenshot creation process. Please click the appropriate links for the information you need to get started.
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Welcome to the BlackBerry Desktop Software primer, a companion article to our Taking Screenshots of your BlackBerry series. Here you will find instructions to help you install all the system files required to connect your BlackBerry to the various screen capture applications presented by BBGeeks.
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