Every night, after a long day at work, I would go to my 10th floor room hoping to get room services and a good night sleep.  Too bad my key didn’t open the door.  So every night, I would go back to the front desk and get my keys reprogrammed.  I thought to myself, what a terrible system, the hotel must do something about this.  I put up with this for 5 night. 

A few weeks later the same thing happened to me again at a different hotel.  I thought I was cursed. I started questioning why do we need credit card keys?  What happened to the good old days?  I just wanted an old fashioned metal key.  This happened over and over at different hotels over a 3 month period.

I finally figured out what was happening.  The Blackberry did it!  I keep my Blackberry in the leather holster that came with the device.  Most of the time, I keep my Blackberry in my shirt pocket but if I’m doing an install I have no other choice to put it in my pants pocket.  The minute I put my Blackberry in the same pocket as my room key, blamo, the key was wiped out.  I only knew this because I had asked for a second room key that I kept in my rental car.  That key worked just fine.

Inside the leather holster is a magnet that is used to turn the screen off and on when you put it in or take it out.  This magnet was killing everything that had a magnetic strip.  Room keys, Gift cards, D&B Power cards, you name it.  So, my tip to you, keep your Blackberry away from your room keys and you will be much happier traveler.

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Little did you know that your web browser on your BB determines how you surf the internet. The “Internet Browser” is the default browser out of the box. The “Internet Browser” uses your same Websense server through the Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) that is most likely implemented in your office. To get around this you must change your default browser to the “Blackberry Browser”. To do this follow the below instructions.

Scroll to Options > Advanced Options > Browser

Your “Default browser configuration:” is set to “Internet Browser”

Scroll and highlight “Internet Browser” and PUSH your wheel or pearl

Change it to “Blackberry Browser” and PUSH your wheel or pearl again

PUSH your “Menu” button and select “Save“

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It looks like RIM is trying to get some customers that are leaning back and forth between the iPhone and their products.   I am very interested in this.

It can get pretty frustrating if you send out tons of emails. You can prevent this by happening by setting up a Stop Send Box Gmail Filter in your weblient.

Here’s an example.

Works like a piece of charm.

ESPN Sports on the go.