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1 Tips for Tuesday: Rid your BlackBerry of useless icons | BBGeeks August 30, 2011 at 7:32 am

[...] used to accomplish this pretty simply. All you have to do is hide the icon in order to remove the icons from sight. But there are some downsides to that. For instance, when [...]

2 Spruce up your home screen with BeBlank | BBGeeks May 17, 2011 at 9:27 am

[...] have run on Day 1. As a pretty heavy BlackBerry geek at the time, I figured everyone knew how to hide icons on their home screen. But when I asked my Verizon rep what the most frequent BlackBerry question she got, she said that [...]

3 Geek Review: BerryBuzz alerts for BlackBerry | BB Geeks March 10, 2009 at 11:00 am

[...] listing in your Options. The icon still appears on your Applications Menu, but you can go ahead and hide the icon. No sense in keeping it around if it doesn’t actually function. If you click on it, it will [...]

4 Christine November 2, 2008 at 1:29 am

Thanks for the helpful tips – I’ve long avoided bringing in my email because I didn’t want the clutter. Problems solved!

5 What to do if you don’t have BlackBerry Internet Browser | BB Geeks October 24, 2008 at 7:52 am

[...] The icon for my BlackBerry Browser had disappeared. I poked around for a bit, checking for hidden icons, but with no luck. I tried to launch NextPimp, and I got an error. This is horribly frustrating for [...]

6 How to separate your email from SMS | BB Geeks October 6, 2008 at 7:19 am

[...] their emails and SMS. While each email address comes with its own icon, it seems more expedient to hide those icons and just use the consolidated version. However, what if you want to keep email and SMS separate? [...]

7 JerryD September 26, 2008 at 3:13 pm

I’ll see your tip and raise you THREE (if you’ve got a full keyboard device anyway)!

First tip – I use Shortcut Keys to get to all the essential applications – Messages, Address book, caLendar… See my post here:
http://blackberryforums.pinstack.com/blog.php?b=680

Second tip – instead of doing all that hiding, just create a folder called Hidden and move everything into that folder. Then the stuff you never use is still easily accessible.

Final tip – I use the L theme (can’t find a Today Plus theme that uses the font I set everywhere the way the Dimension theme does), and I have three folders across the bottom: Documents To Go (which holds other applications too), Games, and Links which holds those myriad of icons every BlackBerryCentric site has. That leaves me five icons for applications that I use all the time but don’t have Shortcut Keys.

Try it!

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