Squeezing maximum juice out of BlackBerry

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Research in Motion, the developers of BlackBerry mobile phones, recently announced that the total number of BlackBerry subscribers now exceed 14 million. The phones are so addictive that they are often referred as ‘crackberries’ where crack is actually short for crack cocaine, a highly addictive form of cocaine drug.

While there’s no denying that a BlackBerry can turn you into a more efficient worker, it certainly helps if you can spend some time exploring all the time-saving keyboard shortcuts and features of a BlackBerry for getting things done quickly and more efficiently. Here are some ideas:

Save web pages: When you come across an interesting web page but have no time reading it, you would normally send a link of that page as an email to yourself. To save time, simply open the menu of your BlackBerry internet browser and select

‘Save Page’. The page will be added to your message list just like other emails.

Delete your emails: If you are looking to clean your BlackBerry Inbox, press the CAPS key and scroll UP or DOWN using the wheel to select the email messages that you want to delete. If you want to completely clear the Inbox, press t in the Message view to move to the top and select ‘Delete Prior’. This will delete all your BlackBerry emails.

See what’s running: To see a list of all open applications, press the ALT key, followed by Escape. It’s pretty much like doing an Alt+Tab in Windows to help you navigate through open applications or switch from one application to another.

Multiple email signatures: By default, BlackBerry will append a text signature to all your outgoing email messages that you have set through the BlackBerry internet services portal. If you like more personalised signatures, compose a new email message in your BlackBerry, go to ‘Edit Auto-Text’ and set up multiple entries corresponding to your different signatures.

Type URLs and email addresses quickly: When typing a web address (URL) in the Blackberry browser, type a space and it is written as a dot. To insert a slash(/), use Shift+ Space. When typing email addresses, your first space is recognised as @ while subsequent spaces are recognised as dots. So labnol google co uk will be written as labnol@google.co.uk.