[cgill27]

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/blackberryhks/

BlackBerry Hacks
Tips & Tools for Your Mobile Office
By Dave Mabe
First Edition October 2005 (est.)
Series: Hacks
ISBN: 0-596-10115-5
336 pages, $24.95 US, $34.95 CA

[ajg]

Very cool! The O'Reilly books are usually great with lots of awesome tips and tricks. Will have to pick it up.

[NickRac]

looks nice, I'll be picking up a copy before I head off to school.

w00t first post!

[thriller]

I will check it out at the bookstore and see if there any good things in there or just the same info can be found here

[BigJay.Inc]

Originally Posted by thriller

I will check it out at the bookstore and see if there any good things in there or just the same info can be found here

for some reason i believe that u'll find more here......this is constantly updated, fresh problems, people constantly troubleshooting, etc....

but for good bathroom material i might look into it...lol

[jetspeedz]

Originally Posted by BigJay.Inc

for some reason i believe that u'll find more here......this is constantly updated, fresh problems, people constantly troubleshooting, etc....

but for good bathroom material i might look into it...lol

i have to agree that the forums are the best place... besides who ever reads the book is going to post something we dont know in these forums anyway

[udontknowjack]

They called me and asked if I would give them some hacks. He gave me a list of what he had and most were pretty well known if you use this board or have been using your BB for very long. I didn't submit anything because I couldn't think of anything he already said they had. I'm sure their will be some things new in there but it will be best for those BB users who don't know we exist.

[sempai]

Disclosure:

I worked on BlackBerry Hacks.

Having said that, it is a fantastic resource for BES Admins and Power-Users and covers a great amount of ground in terms of providing new services to BlackBerry devices.

It is also a great book to get someone new to BlackBerry devices that doesn't know all of the things they can actually do with the BlackBerry.

And a lot of things may well be here too, but not everyone has the patience to wade through all the things they're not interested in. Sometimes its nice to have a Table of Contents, you know?

I've worked on several books dealing with mobile tech, and this one was my favorite. It is really quite excellent.

[sempai]

Originally Posted by udontknowjack

They called me and asked if I would give them some hacks. He gave me a list of what he had and most were pretty well known if you use this board or have been using your BB for very long. I didn't submit anything because I couldn't think of anything he already said they had. I'm sure their will be some things new in there but it will be best for those BB users who don't know we exist.

I just want to make sure people consider that not everyone has enough free time to scour resources looking for things like some of the hacks that may or may not have made it in.

Usually the people using a BlackBerry *simply have no time* to go hunting for things like that; in those circumstances having a reference like BlackBerry Hacks will certainly be welcome.

Thinking of most Sr. Management in the company I work for carrying either a GoodLink'ed Treo 650 or BlackBerry/BES, not a chance they know they can have a Today screen, instant Weather reports, a good IM client.

They know these things are POSSIBLE but they don't feel that they want to go do all the homework and testing required to figure it out. They're busy. That is why they have a BlackBerry!