A cool tip I’ve overlooked until recently. While you’re in GCal, press the q key to summon a single field to enter an event. Best of all, GCal understands natural language like “tomorrow at 2PM.” Not using Google Calendar? Get it at Google Calendar

Inconsolata is a monospace font, designed for code listings and the like, in print. There are a great many “programmer fonts,” designed primarily for use on the screen, but in most cases do not have the attention to detail for high resolution rendering.

Download Inconsolata

You can set up a free account, call and leave a voice mail note, and it will transcribe it and send you an email with your message. Great for hands-free note taking on the road!

• Inbox – All incoming items (downloaded files, temp documents that you’ll throw away immediately, files for email attachments, etc.). Items you save to the ‘Inbox’ must be things that don’t need to be saved to the long term archive. The ‘Inbox’ is for things you don’t have a chance to intercept and save into your archive or which will be deleted after use. You’ll want to configure you Office software and Web Browser to automatically download files here, instead of the root of ‘My Documents’ or some other folder.
• Archive – Directory in your ‘Home’ directory or ‘My Documents’ folder with all your long term reference materials. It’s your permanent file cabinet.
• Projects — Files you access regularly during short term project work, organized into project folders. Mini-projects that take only hours or even minutes such as ‘Quarterly Presentation’ or ‘Performance Review’ also merit a project folder if they involve organizing multiple files.
• To File — This is a special folder in your ‘Archive’ where you can quickly drag files that are ready for Archiving but you haven’t had a chance to organize yet. If you have Google Search or other indexing software for your hard drive, you can dispense with organizing files, and simply search for them when needed. If you go this search route, make sure you give your files meaningful names!

And don’t forget the Trash Can / Recycle Bin! Use it as a ‘To Toss?’ folder — if you think you don’t need it, trash it, and when you empty the trash, empty only files > 30 days old.

App Switching
Alt+Esc works like Atl+Tab on Windows. Hold the Alt key and press the Escape button. Continue to hold the Alt key and select a program. Release the Alt key to switch to that program.

Capitalize a letter
Hold the letter key until the capitalized letter appears.

Move the cursor in a different direction
The Alt key and roll the trackwheel.

Select a check box
Press the Space key. To clear the check box, press the Space key again.

Move down a screen
Press the Space key

Move up a screen
Press the Shift key + the Space key.

Turn on the backlighting
Press Power button

Turn off the display (saves power)
Press Power button twice

Insert the at sign (@) and periods in an Email field
Press the Space key.

Google Search
Visit google.com on your mobile web browser, or go straight to http://www.google.com/m

Google Talk (Chat with co-workers)
http://www.blackberry.com/GoogleTalk

Gmail (Check your personal email)
http://m.google.com/a

Google Maps (Get directions on the fly)
http://www.google.com/gmm

BlackBerry Push Weather
http://mobile.blackberry.com/mss/category_push

Berry 411
Wireless Link: www.thebogles.com/berry411.jad
Desktop Link: www.thebogles.com/Berry411.htm
The best White Pages and Yellow Pages search software for the BlackBerry, this also has a built-in bonus of movie showtimes lookup and weather lookup!
And here are some others you may find interesting: 

Spider Solitaire
Free Solitaire game that can be found on the free game download area of the mobile.blackberry.com

The Bible - American Standard Version for BlackBerry
http://www.handango.com/blackberry/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1181&osId=950&jid=812D7CF7X7F219ECA4981359737B72FC&platformId=5&productType=2&productId=161699&sectionId=6530&catalog=40&topSectionId=-1

Great List of Apps
http://home.comcast.net/~tamsterra/OP/MustHave.htm
http://www.howardforums.com/archive/topic/839591-1.html

[ ] Email Susan

[ ] File this

[ ] Call John re: this

I created these in Excel for maximum flexibility. The Letter (8.5×11″ version) layout is a single Cornell page; the Classic (5.5×8.5″ version) is in 2-Up format, meaning you print on letter, and use a paper cutter to trim to size. For the Classic version, the page on the left is Cornell format, and the page on the right is a Blank page format.

Download the Excel templates:

• Cornell Letter Template
• Cornell Classic Template

Here is another great resource on this topic from LifeHacker.

Search operators in Gmail work much the same as they do with Google. Type the operator followed by a colon, and then your search term (e.g., to:tips@lifehacker.com). Likewise, you can exclude terms from your search with the hyphen (-).

The search operators allow you to limit the scope of your search to the to (to:), from (from:), and subject (subject:) fields. Easy enough, right? You can also search based on labels (label:), emails with attachments (has:attachment), and even dates (after:/before:yyyy/mm/dd).

More at Hack Attack: Become a Gmail master

Text
?A move to beginning of paragraph
?B move one character back
?D delete character to right
?E move to end of paragraph
?F move one character forward
?K delete text to end of paragraph
?N move to next line
?O insert newline
?P move to previous line
?T transpose characters
?? delete word to left
?? delete word to right

Text Field
?? move one word left
?? move one word right
?? move to beginning of line
?? move to end of line

Text View
?? move up one page
?? move down one page
?? move to beginning of line
?? move to end of line
?? move to beginning of view
?? move to end of view

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