Gears Settings - Blackberry dummies 2 Manual

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Part II: Getting Organized and Online with Your Storm
Some Web sites push (send information) Web pages to BlackBerry devices. An
icon will appear on the Home screen, allowing you to quickly view the page.
After the Web page is delivered to your BlackBerry, the page becomes avail-
able even if you go out of the coverage area. If you subscribe to this service,
your device will store Web pages in the cache. Also, the addresses of the
pages that you visited (or your latest 20 in your history list) make up a cache.
The Cache Operations screen, shown in Figure 10-15, allows you to manually
clear your cache. To view the Cache Operations screen, follow these steps:
1. From the Browser screen, press the menu key.
2. Touch-press Options.
3. Touch-press Cache Operations.
The size of each type of cache is displayed on the Cache Operations screen.
If the cache has content, you also see the Clear button, which you can use to
clear the specified cache type. This is true for all types of caches except his-
tory, which has its own Clear History button. You find four types of caches:
✓ History: The list of sites you've visited by using the Go To function. You
may want to clear this for the sake of security if you don't want other
people knowing which Web sites you're visiting on your BlackBerry.
✓ Content Cache: Any offline content. You may want to clear this when-
ever you're running out of space on your BlackBerry and need to free
some memory. Or maybe you're tired of viewing old content or tired of
touch-pressing the Refresh option.
✓ Pushed Content: Any content that was pushed to your BlackBerry from
Push Services subscriptions. You may want to clear this to free memory
on your BlackBerry.
✓ Cookie Cache: Any cookies stored on your BlackBerry. You may want
to clear this for security's sake. Sometimes you don't want a Web site to
remember you.

Gears settings

Gears is a mechanism by which Browser sends your geographic location
so that sites can provide location-based features catered to where you are.
Gears is a relatively new technology initially developed by Google.
Some familiar Web applications such as Gmail, YouTube, and Picasa use
Gears, but as of this writing, few Web sites take advantage of it. You will know
whether a Web site uses Gears because Browser will prompt you for autho-
rization. After you authorize a Web site, it will be listed on the Gears Settings
screen. To get to that screen, from the Browser screen, press the menu key,
touch-press Options, and then touch-press Gear Settings.