How to Open the Bridge on Your BlackBerry PlayBook
After you have installed BlackBerry Bridge on your smartphone, you can open a link between the phone and your BlackBerry PlayBook. The simplest way to begin is this way: [more…]
Advanced BlackBerry PlayBook Options for Bridge Users
Anyone who has used a BlackBerry smartphone will be quickly at ease when working on a BlackBerry PlayBook linked by the Bridge. All of the basic functions — the calendar, contact book, e-mail, MemoPad, [more…]
How to Attach the Proper File Types on the BlackBerry PlayBook
Security! The designers of the BlackBerry PlayBook must have that stenciled on the front of their computer screens, which is actually a pretty good watchword in these sometimes threatening times. Many [more…]
How to Connect Your BlackBerry PlayBook to WiFi
Using WiFi on your BlackBerry PlayBook begins with setting up the tablet. With the PlayBook configured to work with WiFi, turn on the PlayBook’s WiFi transceiver. You have two ways to do that. [more…]
Advanced BlackBerry PlayBook Options for Secure Networks
The BlackBerry PlayBook may look like an ordinary consumer grade tablet, but it has a wide range of professional-grade security features. The idea is that you can have the convenience of your BlackBerry [more…]
How to Get Your Information onto Your PlayBook
The BlackBerry PlayBook can communicate the following ways: the basic model includes a WiFi transmitter and receiver that can connect to the web through a public or private router. That basic model also [more…]
BlackBerry Messenger for Your PlayBook
BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is Research in Motion’s very own version of an instant messaging service. BBM allows any two BlackBerry users who have a data plan on their phone to communicate with each other [more…]
How to Find the PIN for Your BlackBerry PlayBook
Every BlackBerry device, smartphone and PlayBook alike, has its very own electronic identification issued by the mothership back at Research in Motion [more…]
How to Start a BlackBerry Messenger Session
With the BlackBerry PlayBook, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is available as a component of the BlackBerry Bridge; when you wirelessly connect your tablet to a BlackBerry smartphone, you can send and receive [more…]
Your Contacts Database on Your BlackBerry PlayBook
The Contacts on your BlackBerry PlayBook (and smartphone) database helps tie together all of the elements of the personal information apps. To help organize your contacts, you can assign them to one or [more…]
How to Use the Calendar with Your BlackBerry Playbook
Like nearly all of the various standard apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook, the calendar is simple and to the point. At its most basic level, you navigate to a date, click a time slot, and then add the details [more…]
Components of Documents To Go for the BlackBerry PlayBook
Documents To Go is one of the truly amazing features of recent-model BlackBerry smartphones. The ability to download and use this app brought the essential functionality of Microsoft Word and Microsoft [more…]
Create Documents with Word To Go on Your BlackBerry PlayBook
Once you get underway with using Word To Go in your BlackBerry PlayBook, you will find it remarkably familiar to its big brother, Microsoft Word. The bottom half of the screen shows the keyboard. The upper [more…]
Edit a Word Document in Word To Go
To change or add to an existing Word document, open the doc in Word To Go on your BlackBerry PlayBook. You can choose a recent document or tap Browse to search your BlackBerry PlayBook [more…]
How to Use Sheet To Go on the BlackBerry PlayBook
The BlackBerry PlayBook’s spreadsheet app (with an unfortunate name that sounds like the description of a wanderer in search of a bed) works with XLS or XLSX files, and has most full spreadsheet functionality [more…]
Slideshow To Go on Your BlackBerry PlayBook
Slideshow To Go for your BlackBerry PlayBook manages to do two things at the same time: it both impresses and disappoints. These features are exciting: [more…]
Clock and Timer Suite Apps for Your BlackBerry Playbook
The multi-faced clock and timer suite is one of the apps on your BlackBerry PlayBook dedicated to helping someone with limited time make the most of limited money. [more…]
The Calculator App on the BlackBerry PlayBook
A simple but very elegant BlackBerry PlayBook tool is the built-in calculator, which can help you balance your checkbook, figure the tip for dinner, perform complex scientific math, or convert from just [more…]
Unit Converter Calculator App on the BlackBerry PlayBook
You can perform simple conversions with the Unit Converter calculator on the BlackBerry PlayBook, like figuring out that 100 km/hr is not quite as fast as it sounds, equaling only 62.137 mph or a mere [more…]
Tip Calculator App on the BlackBerry PlayBook
Although you could do the same math using the standard calculator, the tip app for your BlackBerry PlayBook adds a few extra wrinkles. To figure a tip, do the following: [more…]
File Share on Your BlackBerry PlayBook Using WiFi
You can share files back and forth between your BlackBerry PlayBook and a WiFi equipped personal or laptop computer. Although it can be made to work, it is a rather complex process. [more…]
Manage a Bluetooth Session on Your BlackBerry PlayBook
Once you give permission for a particular pairing between devices, your BlackBerry PlayBook tracks that agreement and, usually, automatically connect to that device anytime it is within range. [more…]
Bluetooth Profiles Supported by the BlackBerry PlayBook
The BlackBerry PlayBook works with most of the common profiles employed by Bluetooth devices. To find out if your tablet supports a specific Bluetooth enabled device, find out what profiles it uses. The [more…]
Make Calls from Your BlackBerry PlayBook with Comwave’s ePhone App
One of the first significant communications tools offered by a third-party company for the BlackBerry PlayBook extends the intriguing world of Voice Over Internet [more…]
Explore the BlackBerry PlayBook Browser
When a web page is viewed in landscape mode on the Blackberry PlayBook, only about 15 percent of the screen displays the address bar and a simple set of browsing tools, and if you don’t want to give even [more…]
