meta-via Alex C. Snoeren If you're using the Apple-supplied driver (which comes with the 10.3.5 update) for Verizon's 1xEV-DO card, option-click on the menu item to get two new options: Turn Logging On and Activate Card. Even if you've already activated your card, activating again will update your Preferred Roaming List (PRL), and make your card aware of new, possibly 1xEV-DO-enabled, towers.

This means an end to using my Windows PC to update the PRL every few days! However, I'll still need to fire up the Windows PC next time that Audiovox issues a firmware update.

RIM Road is running an excerpt from RIM Road is running an excerpt from Curt Simmons's book, How to Do Everything with Your BlackBerry, Chapter 7: " Managing E-Mail".

A perverse (in only the technological sense, mind) use I discovered yesterday for my Blackberry was as an email notifier while you're working away at your laptop. I was sitting at a cafe hacking on something or other but waiting for an important piece of email. Voila!, when it arrived, my Blackberry buzzed in its holster, letting me know I had mail.

Now of course this sets up a rather Pavlovian response: Blackberry buzzes, I check email. It's even worse than it seems because often I respond to said email, others respond to me, and -- Bob's yer uncle -- I get buzzed again. Still, it's a heck of a lot less annoying to those sitting around you than the usual "beep!" on every piece of incoming email.

So my Pocket PC makes the nth device I own that can ostensibly play Real streams yet supports only RTSP rather than the RAM format in which you find just about every bit of streaming media out there.

Anyone stumbled across a public RTSP proxy, RAM-to-RTSP converter of another flavour, standalone (i.e. not married to some whopping great server) RTSP proxy software implementation that actually works (the RTSP Proxy Kit 2.0 seemed to think it was working), or other hack to get at Real media?

P.s. Windows Media streams on the Pocket PC works like a charm.

I found out through undelivered email and a less than illuminating message on my Blackberry that I'd run over my 10 megabyte quota on T-Mobile's Blackberry Web Client service. This despite dutifully deleting messages from my Blackberry's Inbox--aside from those I chose to file.

It turns out that the Web Client is set by default to delete messages only on the Blackberry itself, not the server.

To have anything you delete on your Blackberry automagically disappear from your Blackberry Web Client mailbox, visit Messages > Options > Web Client..., set "Delete On:" to "Mailbox & Handheld," and make sure "Wireless Reconcile:" is "On."

Blackberry 411 provides 411 yellow and white pages number lookup, movie times, and Google search on your Blackberry. It's donateware and installs either OTA (over the air) or using the standard application loader software on your PC.

We know this has already been out for a week, but I forgot to write it up when it happened.

Mac users have always been out in the cold for using Blackberry devices. They could only use 'em for email since there wasn't a way to actually manage and transfer appointments and contacts from a Mac to said gadget.

Most of the time people use BlackBerry devices in combination with a BES and their corporate Notes or Exchange server, but there are some people out there (Until recently almost certainly a Windows user) that used a BlackBerry with the web client and a POP or IMAP account.

So yes, now with PocketMac BlackBerry you can mate a BlackBerry to iSync on a Mac keeping appointments and contacts in sync with the handheld.

Too bad they can't fix the fact that you look like a clown holding the giant thing to your head to make a call, nor use Bluetooth. Can't have everything, I guess. There would be no reason to upgrade, right?

If you were wondering what's new in BlackBerry land, the newest device from RIM right now is the 77xx line and if you want a worldphone BlackBerry stick to the 7730. AT&T; Wireless and Cingular users need to take it on the chin and lose 900 in exchange for 850.