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Is Your BlackBerry Vunerable to a Denial Of Service Attack?

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The French Security Incident Response Team issued a security advisory late yesterday described as a “low risk vulnerability” that primarily affects BlackBerry Pearl devices running OS 4.2 and earlier.

A vulnerability has been identified in various BlackBerry devices, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is due to an error in the BlackBerry browser that fails to properly handle overly long URLs, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a vulnerable device to become slow or to stop responding by tricking a user into following a specially crafted link.

You can fix this vulnerability simply by upgrading to BlackBerry Device Software version 4.2 Service Pack 1 (4.2.1) which can be found here.

3 Possible Relationship Saving BlackBerry Tips

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I was just reading an interesting article over on the SouthBendTribune.com website entitled “Saving marriage from the BlackBerry” and it offers 3 tips for keeping your BlackBerry addiction from spilling over into your personal life. I must admit that, at least at some level, I practice all three of these tips.

The first tip is no BlackBerry in the bedroom. My motivation for keeping my BlackBerry out of the bedroom is a bit different than the one suggested in the article, however. The constant blinking light and the random vibration from incoming email drives me nuts. Additionally, keeping my BlackBerry in my bedroom would counteract the benefits of tip number two.

More tips after the jump…
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Do You Want To Change The Color Of Your BlackBerry Pearl or 8800 TrackBall?

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BlackBerry Forums member SanFrancisco has posted a detailed walk-through on how to change the color your BlackBerry Pearl or BlackBerry 8800 trackball complete with pretty high quality photos showing you exactly what to do.

This mod isn’t exactly like tricking your BlackBerry 8700 out in 18K gold, however, is pretty cool all the same.

If we get permission we will update this post with a picture of the finished product, however, if you really want to see it, you can check it out here.

UPDATE: We got permission…

BlackBerry 8800 Tips From Stinsonddog

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BlackBerry Tipster Extraordinare and BlackBerry Forums super moderator Stinsonddog is back at it with his world class BlackBerry Tips. His latest tips sheet is for the BlackBerry 8800. Stinsonddog says his pre-launch 8800 tips are 99% accurate and will be confirmed as soon as he gets his hands on a device.

If you are really interested in what the BlackBerry 8800 can do go check out Stinsonddog’s site. He is known to have the best BlackBerry tips out there and I guarantee that you will find something out about the BlackBerry 8800 that you didn’t already know.

Download the BlackBerry 8800 Tips .pdf.

BlackBerry 8800 Tips

Top 12 BlackBerry Tips From Smart Device Central

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Jamie Lendino from Smart Device Central has posted an article titled “Top 12 BlackBerry Tips” aimed at helping BlackBerry 8700 series device users be more productive and save time. As Jamie puts it, these BlackBerry 8700 shortcuts are an attempt to save you from the “futile exercise in thumb wheel fiddling” while trying to navigate your BlackBerry.

These tips were written specifically for the BlackBerry 8700 series, however, some of them translate to other model devices. If want to learn how to navigate your BlackBerry a bit more efficiently, especially if you are a BlackBerry 8700 series device owner, take a look after the jump…
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Sending Contact Info Via BlackBerry

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Remember the back in the day when you got your first PDA before the BlackBerry took over? One of the coolest things that you could do was “beam” contact information from your device via infra-red to someone else’s device. I believe that I read an article once that said business cards would go the way of the dinosaur. Well, that hasn’t exactly happened, but, being able to beam your adders book to everyone you met at networking events was pretty fun.

As we know, you can’t exactly beam your info to someone since there is no infra-red on the BlackBerry. However, there is a little known feature that easily allows you to exchange contact info with other BlackBerry users.
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My wife just got her first BlackBerry

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After a year and a half of writing this here BlackBerry blog I convinced my wife that BlackBerries are cool enough devices for her to get one. She has read RIMarkable from time to time over the last 18 months but now that she has her own BlackBerry 7130e, she has pointed out something that this site lacks that in hindsight, I cannot believe that I have never done here.

My wife tells me that I should add a BlackBerry Tips and Tricks section for new BlackBerry users, such as herself, that want to figure out how to do things other than send and receive email.

With that, the BlackBerry Tips and Tricks section of RIMarkable is born. We will try to put a tip or two up per week that will hopefully help many learn something new about their BlackBerry that the didn’t know before. For those of you that want a ton of tips right now you should check out Stinsonddog’s BlackBerry Tips. I wrote about this site back at the beginning of the year and I still think that it is one of the best BlackBerry Tips and Tricks sites out there.