So here's a guide with screens:
This guide shows how to install Web Shortcuts on a Blackberry Curve 8310 using Desktop Manager 4.2 on Windows Vista Ultimate. It also assumes you have file extensions turned on:
Under folder options, clear the checkbox for "Hide extensions", or just be aware that your file extension is already .png, and name it accordingly:
Make sure that you can read your media card when you plug into the PC. On your BB, go to Options... Media Card... and make sure that Mass Storage Mode Support is on:
Open Desktop Manager and plug in:
Open the application loader and click next:
At this screen, click Add...
Browse until you find the files you extracted for the Web Shortcuts and open the first shortcut:
I recently loaded the newest version on my Curve (4.2.184), and don't have everything set up to show you screens of the remaining steps, but just click Open... then Next and finish up. This will install the shortcuts to your BB. JC also mentioned a better way to do this, which I haven't tried yet, but is probably worth investigating:
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Originally Posted by John Clark
Hint: I created a subfolder in the shortcut folder for the installation files. Then I just use the Explore feature in Media to browse to the .jad file for the shortcut I want to install. Click on the .jad file and it will install the shortcut to the device just like an OTA install. This way I can add/remove shortcut apps without having to go back to the pc and use desktop manager.
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Now that you've got the shortcuts installed, let's create the folder structure. With your Blackberry plugged in, open the drive letter that gets assigned to it and create a folder named "shortcut":
Copy over config.xml from the download to the shortcut folder. Right click and Edit...:
Type the full URL including the http:// in between the shortcut fields, then give it a friendly name under the title fields:
Close and save config.xml when you are done. Now all you have to do is associate your PNG images to each shortcut. Simply copy the PNG files you are working with (shortcut1.png, shortcut2.png, etc), to your shortcut folder. Here is the relation:
UNPLUG FROM THE PC. Your memory card won't be read by your BB until you do with it in mass storage mode. The icons will be standard command looking icons, and the friendly names will still show "shortcut 1", etc, until you open each one. Click one, then come back to the home screen, and everything should populate. When you're done it should look like:
Jon, I know you were working up documentation, and I hope I didn't overstep my bounds. Some of this may still be incomplete, and may become obsolete very soon, I would imagine. Again, JC's suggestion for installing shortcuts through the device itself, emulating an OTA install, is probably also better, but there's something anyway.