Book description
You've chosen well—with elegant design, a high-res display, and a speedy processor, the Bold is a top-notch device. Now learn how to take advantage of all the features with this easy-to-read guide from two of the best BlackBerry trainers in the business.
BlackBerry Bold Made Simple teaches you how to get the most out of your BlackBerry Bold. You'll explore all the features and uncover time-saving techniques—from emailing and scheduling to video recording and expanding memory—all through easy-to-read instructions and detailed visuals. Written by two successful BlackBerry trainers and authors, this is simply the most comprehensive and clear guidebook to the BlackBerry Bold available.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
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I. Quick Start Guide
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1. Getting Around Quickly
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Learning Your Way Around
- Keys, Buttons, and Ports
- Inside Your Bold
- Starting and Exiting Icons
- Two Types of Menus (Full and Short)
- Multitasking on Your Bold
- Jump to First Letter Trick for Menus and Drop-Downs
- Save Time with the Space Key
- Setting Dates and Times with the Space Key
- Setting Dates and Times with Number Keys
- Space Key as Page Down
- Quickly Typing Accented or Special Characters
- Working with the Wireless Network
- App Reference Tables
- Add or Remove Apps
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Learning Your Way Around
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1. Getting Around Quickly
- II. Introduction
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III. You and Your BlackBerry Bold
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1. Email Set Up
- 1.1. Learn Your BlackBerry and Getting Around
- 1.2. Setting Up Email for the First Time
- 1.3. Maintaining Your Email Accounts
- 1.4. Sync Google Contacts Using Email Setup
- 1.5. Troubleshooting Your Email Accounts
- 1.6. Set Up or Adjust Email Accounts from Your Computer
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1.7. BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express (Free Software)
- 1.7.1. How to Get the BES Express software?
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1.7.2. Benefits of Being Connected to a BlackBerry Server
- 1.7.2.1. Strong Encryption of Email within Your Organization
- 1.7.2.2. Full Two-Way Wireless Synchronization
- 1.7.2.3. Securely Connect to Your Corporate Data
- 1.7.2.4. Push Applications Wirelessly to All Your BlackBerry Users
- 1.7.2.5. Global Address List Lookup
- 1.7.2.6. Out-of-Office Auto Reply and Email Signature
- 1.7.2.7. Meeting Invitations
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2. Windows PC Setup
- 2.1. Download Desktop Manager for Windows
- 2.2. Install Desktop Manager
- 2.3. Overview of BlackBerry Desktop Manager
- 2.4. Device Switch Wizard
- 2.5. Synchronize Your BlackBerry
- 2.6. Application Loader
- 2.7. Backup and Restore
- 2.8. IP Modem
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3. Windows PC Media and File Transfer
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3.1. Using the Media Manager (in Desktop Manager)
- 3.1.1. Scanning Your Computer for Media Files
- 3.1.2. Watched Folder Settings
- 3.1.3. Enter Password
- 3.1.4. The Main Media Manager Window
- 3.1.5. Locating Media on Your Comptuer
- 3.1.6. Copy Music to Your BlackBerry
- 3.1.7. Copying Pictures
- 3.1.8. Copying (Microsoft Office) Documents
- 3.1.9. Deleting Media from Your Media Card
- 3.1.10. Troubleshooting Media Manager
- 3.2. BlackBerry Media Sync
- 3.3. Media Sync Setup
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3.1. Using the Media Manager (in Desktop Manager)
- 4. Apple Mac Setup
- 5. Apple Mac Media and File Transfer
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6. Typing, Spelling, and Help
- 6.1. The Trackpad
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6.2. Typing Tips for Your Bold
- 6.2.1. Press and Hold for Automatic Capitalization
- 6.2.2. Caps Lock and Num/Alt Lock
- 6.2.3. Automatic Period and Cap at End of Sentence
- 6.2.4. Typing Symbols: Using the Alt and Sym Keys
- 6.2.5. Quickly Typing Accented Letters and Other Symbols
- 6.2.6. Editing Text
- 6.2.7. The Mighty Space key
- 6.2.8. Quickly Navigating Drop-Down Lists
- 6.2.9. Using Letter Keys to Select Items in Lists and Menus
- 6.2.10. Using Number Keys to Type Dates and Times
- 6.3. Using the Spell Checker
- 6.4. Using BlackBerry Text-Based Help
- 7. Speed Your Typing with AutoText
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8. Personalize Your BlackBerry
- 8.1. Moving, Hiding, and Deleting Icons
- 8.2. Using Folders to Organize Your Icons
- 8.3. Setting the Date, Time, and Time Zone
- 8.4. Changing Your Font Size and Type
- 8.5. Changing Your Currency Key
- 8.6. Home Screen Preferences and Options
- 8.7. Selecting New Themes
- 8.8. Changing the Home Screen Background Image or Wallpaper
- 8.9. Keyboard Lock and Standby Mode
- 8.10. Changing Your Convenience Keys
- 8.11. Understanding That Blinking Light
- 9. Sounds: Ring and Vibrate
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10. Phone and Voice Dialing
- 10.1. Basic Phone Features
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10.2. Changing Your Ring Tone
- 10.2.1. Adjusting the Volume on Calls
- 10.2.2. Muting Yourself on the Call
- 10.2.3. What's My Phone Number?
- 10.2.4. Adding Pauses and Waits in Phone Numbers
- 10.2.5. Changing Your Phone Ringtone
- 10.2.6. Making a Call—Just Dialing a Phone Number
- 10.2.7. Answering a Call
- 10.2.8. Calling Voice Mail
- 10.2.9. Why Do I See Names and Numbers in My Call Logs?
- 10.2.10. How Can I See Missed Calls on My Home Screen?
- 10.2.11. Quickly Dial from Contact List
- 10.3. Add New Contact Entry from Phone Call Logs
- 10.4. Ignoring and Muting Phone Calls
- 10.5. Using the Call Log
- 10.6. Speed Dial
- 10.7. Voice Dialing
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11. Advanced Phone
- 11.1. Advanced Phone Topics
- 11.2. Using Your Music as Ringtones (Phone Tune)
- 11.3. More with Voice Command
- 11.4. Call Waiting—Calling a Second Person
- 11.5. Conference Calling
- 11.6. Dialing Letters in Phone Numbers
- 11.7. More Phone Tips and Tricks
- 11.8. TTY or TELETYPE Support
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12. Email Like a Pro
- 12.1. Getting Started with Email
- 12.2. Sending Email from Your Contacts App
- 12.3. Replying to Messages
- 12.4. Attaching a Contact Entry (Address Book Entry) to Email
- 12.5. Viewing Pictures in Email Messages You Receive
- 12.6. Attaching a File to Email
- 12.7. Setting the Importance of the Email
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12.8. Working with Email Attachments
- 12.8.1. Using Documents to Go to View and Edit Email Attachments
- 12.8.2. Email Attachment Viewer Tips and Tricks
- 12.8.3. Editing with Documents to Go
- 12.8.4. Using the Standard Document Viewer
- 12.8.5. Using Sheet to Go or Slideshow to Go
- 12.8.6. Finding Text in an Attachment
- 12.8.7. Opening a Picture
- 12.9. Searching for Messages (Email, SMS, MMS)
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13. Advanced Email Topics
- 13.1. Switching Input Language for Email and More
- 13.2. Inbox Housecleaning
- 13.3. Sending from a Different Email Account
- 13.4. Changing the Way Your Email Looks and Functions
- 13.5. Email Reconciliation
- 13.6. Easily Adding Signatures to Your Emails
- 13.7. Filtering Your Messages for SMS, Calls, and More
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14. Your Contact List
- 14.1. The Heart of Your BlackBerry
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14.2. What Fields Are Searched to Find Contacts
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14.2.1. Add New Addresses Easily
- 14.2.1.1. Choice 1: Add An Address into Contacts
- 14.2.1.2. Need to Add More Than One Email Address for a Person?
- 14.2.1.3. Enter a Phone Number with Letters
- 14.2.1.4. Enter a Phone Number with Pauses or Waits
- 14.2.1.5. Choice 2: Add an Address from an Email Message
- 14.2.1.6. Choice 3: Add an Address from a Phone Call Log
- 14.2.1.7. Choice 4: Add an Address from an Underlined Email Address or Phone Number
- 14.2.1.8. Why Can't You See All of Your Names and Addresses (Filtered)?
- 14.2.2. Locate Names and Addresses Easily
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14.2.1. Add New Addresses Easily
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14.3. Managing Your Contacts
- 14.3.1. Adding More Information to Your Contact Entries (Menu Commands)
- 14.3.2. Adding a Picture to the Contact for Caller ID
- 14.3.3. Changing the Way Contacts Are Sorted
- 14.3.4. Organizing Contacts with Categories
- 14.3.5. Filtering Your Contacts by Category
- 14.3.6. Un-Filtering Your Contacts by Category
- 14.3.7. Using Groups as Mailing Lists
- 14.3.8. Creating and Using a Group Mailing List
- 14.3.9. Sending an Email to the Group
- 14.3.10. Editing or Deleting SIM Card Contacts
- 14.3.11. Storing SMS Messages on the SIM Card
- 14.3.12. SIM Card Security
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15. Managing Your Calendar
- 15.1. Organizing Your Life with Your Calendar
- 15.2. Scheduling Appointments
- 15.3. Customizing Your Calendar with Options
- 15.4. Copy and Paste Information into Your Calendar or Any Icon
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15.5. Alarms and Recurring Appointments
- 15.5.1. To Schedule an Alarm
- 15.5.2. To Change the Default Reminder (Alarm) and Snooze Times
- 15.5.3. To Dial the Phone from a Ringing Calendar Alarm
- 15.5.4. To Adjust Your Calendar (and Task) Alarms in Sound Profiles
- 15.5.5. To Set a Recurring (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly) Appointment
- 15.5.6. To Snooze a Ringing Calendar or Task Alarm
- 15.6. Inviting Attendees and Working with Meeting Invitations
- 15.7. Using Google Sync to Sync Calendar and Contacts
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16. Get Tasks Done
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16.1. The Task Icon
- 16.1.1. Syncing Tasks from Computer to BlackBerry
- 16.1.2. Viewing Tasks on Your BlackBerry (Hotkey: T)
- 16.1.3. Adding a New Task
- 16.1.4. Categorizing Your Tasks
- 16.1.5. Filtering Tasks
- 16.1.6. Finding Tasks
- 16.1.7. Checking Off Completed Tasks
- 16.1.8. Handling a Task Alarm
- 16.1.9. Adjusting the Way Task Alarms Notify You
- 16.1.10. Sorting Your Tasks and Task Options
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16.1. The Task Icon
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17. MemoPad: Sticky Notes
- 17.1. Syncing MemoPad items (Notes) from Computer to BlackBerry
- 17.2. 1,001 Uses for the MemoPad (Notes) Feature
- 17.3. Adding or Editing Memos on the BlackBerry
- 17.4. Quickly Locating Memos
- 17.5. Viewing Your Memos
- 17.6. Organizing Your Memos with Categories
- 17.7. Multitask or Switch Applications
- 17.8. Forwarding Memos via Email, SMS, or BlackBerry Messenger
- 17.9. Other Memo Menu Commands
- 17.10. Memo Tips and Tricks
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18. SMS Text and MMS Messaging
- 18.1. Text and Multimedia Messaging
- 18.2. MMS Messaging on Your BlackBerry
- 18.3. MMS and SMS Text Troubleshooting
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19. Even More Messaging
- 19.1. PIN Messaging
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19.2. BlackBerry Messenger
- 19.2.1. Setting Up BlackBerry Messenger
- 19.2.2. Add Contacts to Your BlackBerry Messenger Group
- 19.2.3. Joining a Fellow User's BlackBerry Messenger Group
- 19.2.4. BlackBerry Messenger Menu Commands
- 19.2.5. Customizing Your BlackBerry Messenger
- 19.2.6. Starting or Continuing Conversations
- 19.2.7. Using the Emoticons (Smiley Faces and More)
- 19.2.8. Sending Files or Voice Notes to a Message Buddy
- 19.2.9. Notification of New Messenger Item or Ping
- 19.2.10. Ping a Contact
- 19.2.11. Using the My Status BlackBerry Messenger Options (Your Availability to Others)
- 19.2.12. Conferencing with BlackBerry Messenger
- 19.2.13. Using Groups in BlackBerry Messenger
- 19.2.14. Using BBM Barcodes
- 19.3. Using AIM, Yahoo, and Google Talk Messaging
- 20. Adding Memory with a Media Card
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21. Your Music Player
- 21.1. Listening to Your Music
- 21.2. Getting Your Music and Playlists onto Your BlackBerry
- 21.3. Downloading and Saving Music or Videos from the Web
- 21.4. Playing Your Music
- 21.5. Controlling Your Song or Video in the BlackBerry Media Player
- 21.6. Finding Music Using a Memory Card
- 21.7. Supported Music Types
- 21.8. Media Player Options
- 21.9. Music Player Tips and Tricks
- 21.10. Streaming Music
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22. Snapping Pictures
- 22.1. Using the Camera
- 22.2. Icons in the Camera Screen
- 22.3. Fine-Tuning Your Camera Settings
- 22.4. Geotagging: Adding GPS Location to New Pictures
- 22.5. Managing Picture Storage
- 22.6. To View a Slide Show
- 22.7. Take a Picture and Set as Caller ID or Home Screen Wallpaper
- 22.8. Transferring Pictures to or from Your BlackBerry
- 23. Fun with Videos
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24. Social Networking
- 24.1. Downloading the Apps
- 24.2. Logging into the Apps
- 24.3. Facebook
- 24.4. MySpace and Flickr
- 24.5. Twitter
- 24.6. LinkedIn
- 24.7. YouTube
- 25. Connecting with Wi-Fi
- 26. BlackBerry App World
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27. Connecting with Bluetooth
- 27.1. History of Bluetooth
- 27.2. Using Bluetooth on Your BlackBerry
- 27.3. Pairing Your BlackBerry with a Bluetooth Device
- 27.4. Answering and Making Calls with the Headset
- 27.5. Bluetooth Setup Menu Commands
- 27.6. Sending and Receiving Files with Bluetooth
- 27.7. Streaming Bluetooth Stereo
- 27.8. Bluetooth Troubleshooting
- 28. Connect as a Tethered Modem
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29. Surfing the Web
- 29.1. Web Browsing on Your BlackBerry
- 29.2. Going to a Web Page
- 29.3. Copying or Sending the Web Page You Are Viewing
- 29.4. Setting and Naming Bookmarks
- 29.5. Setting Your Browser Start Page
- 29.6. Using Your Bookmarks to Browse the Web
- 29.7. Searching with Google
- 29.8. Web Browser Tips and Tricks
- 29.9. Visiting YouTube
- 30. Add or Remove Apps
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31. Traveling: Maps and More
- 31.1. Traveling Internationally
- 31.2. Getting into Airplane Mode
- 31.3. Things to Do While You Are Abroad
- 31.4. BlackBerry Maps, Google Maps, Bluetooth GPS
- 31.5. Using BlackBerry Maps
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31.6. Using Google Maps
- 31.6.1. Downloading and Installing Google Maps
- 31.6.2. Google Map Menu Commands
- 31.6.3. Searching for an Address (Location) or Business
- 31.6.4. Google Map Hotkeys
- 31.6.5. Switching Views in Google Maps
- 31.6.6. Seeing Your Current Location—The Little Blue Dot
- 31.6.7. Finding More Things Nearby with Layers
- 31.6.8. Seeing Current Traffic in Google Maps
- 31.6.9. Getting Directions with Google Maps
- 31.6.10. Enabling GPS Use in Google Maps
- 32. Other Applications
- 33. Searching for Lost Stuff
- 34. Securing Your Data
- 35. Fixing Problems
- 36. More Resources
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1. Email Set Up
- IV. Hotkey Shortcuts
Product information
- Title: BlackBerry Bold Made Simple: For the BlackBerry Bold 9700 and 9650 Series
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2010
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781430231172
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