Blackberry Gripe

I holster the Blackberry when it’s at the top of the master inbox, looking at the newest e-mail.  Sometimes when I unholster it, it mysteriously has gone to the bottom of the inbox.  It takes serious time to scroll through 30 days of e-mail, and if I go too fast, when it reaches the top it gets confused and puts me at the bottom again.  Even though scrolling isn’t 360 degrees, which would be an option for handling the problem.

I know how to scroll a page at a time to speed it up, but haven’t yet found the magic keystroke to tell it “yo, go to the top of the inbox,” which really should exist.

Update:

And another thing I don’t really expect it to do but that would be nice is to resolve aliases for e-mail addressees.  For instance, Deb is in the addressbook at least four times, and at least three of them are simply listed as “Deb.” The primary one I use I have aliased as “jedi.” Or nicknamed, as I believe they call it.  So I am used to typing “jed” and having it extrapolate that I mean that alias and in turn that that alias means the “Deb” associated with the address I want to use.  Ironically, this matters more on the Blackberry because it’s harder to see any detail.

Just as I coped with the lack of categories being visible in tasks on the Blackberry by using two letter prefixes on each item, I’ll just have to modify the addressbook names if I want them to be distinct.  I still haven’t pointedly moved everything I might want in the addressbook on the Blackberry to the main addressbook on the computer.  Long ago I divided the addresses into categories, and this is the first reason I’ve had to change it back.

1. Try using 1 to go to the top and 7 to go to the bottom.

   Another useful tip: if you hold ALT while scrolling, you can go character-by-character instead of line-by-line.

   Posted by  on  02/02  at  10:14 AM  from 
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