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BlackBerry Storm For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Part II: Getting Organized and Online with Your Storm ... 41
Chapter 3: Whipping Up a Storm of Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Making Your BlackBerry Yours ................................................................... 27
Branding your BlackBerry .................................................................. 28
Choosing a language, any language ................................................... 28
Typing with ease using AutoText ...................................................... 29
Inserting text shortcuts ....................................................................... 31
Customizing your screen's look and feel .......................................... 31
Programming the left and right convenience keys .......................... 33
Choosing themes ................................................................................. 34
Wallpapering ........................................................................................ 34
Ringing freedom ................................................................................... 35
Keeping Your BlackBerry Safe ..................................................................... 38
Chapter 4: Remembering and Locating Your Acquaintances . . . . . . .43
Accessing Contacts ....................................................................................... 44
Working with Contacts ................................................................................. 45
Creating a contact ................................................................................ 45
Adding contacts from other BlackBerry applications .................... 50
Viewing a contact ................................................................................. 51
Editing a contact .................................................................................. 51
Deleting a contact ................................................................................ 52
Copying Contacts from Desktop Applications ........................................... 53
Looking for Someone? ................................................................................... 54
Organizing Your Contacts ............................................................................ 57
Creating a group................................................................................... 57
Using the Filter feature on your contacts ......................................... 59
Setting preferences .............................................................................. 61
Sharing a Contact .......................................................................................... 62
Sending a vCard ................................................................................... 63
Receiving a vCard ................................................................................ 64
Searching for Someone Outside Your Contacts ........................................ 64
Synchronizing Facebook Contacts .............................................................. 65
Adding a Facebook friend info to Contacts ...................................... 66
Automatic syncing between Facebook profiles and Contacts ....... 67
Chapter 5: Keeping Your Appointments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Accessing BlackBerry Calendar ................................................................... 69
Choosing Your Calendar View ..................................................................... 70
Switching Calendar views ................................................................... 71
Moving between time frames ............................................................. 71
Customizing Your Calendar ......................................................................... 73
Managing Multiple Calendars ....................................................................... 75