I've been cut/pasting this around the Google Mobile Help forums for a while now; I guess it's time for a nice post.

Love seeing those nice sports calendars in your Google Calendar, but hate that you can't sync them over to BlackBerry or Android?  Yahoo Sports calendars is the solution.

1. Get yourself over to Yahoo! Sports.
   
   
2. Find the sport you're looking for in the gray bar towards the top (next to "Home") and click on it.
   
   
   
3. Hover over the Teams dropdown and select your favorite team (Yankees, of course).
   
   
   
4. Click Scores & Schedule from the gray bar under the team name.
   
   
   
   
5. Click Add to Calendar, then Google Calendar.
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. You’ll be redirected to Google Calendar and presented with the last step.

The newly added calendar should now be available to sync in the BlackBerry Google Sync app, and in the Android Calendar app.



Update: This method is not working for me as of 5/30. My attempt to contact @googlecalendar will likely go unanswered.

Someone (great app, pay the $5 for the ad-less version) asked me if there were any tricks to upgrading a Verizon BlackBerry Storm (9530) to the latest leaked OS, and this is what I came up with:

No tricks, but some stuff to keep in mind:

• Google's GMail app will not work, but the GMail-BB plugin works.
• some 3rd party themes will not work
• do a 3rd party app backup before you upgrade (use BBSAK for this, it's the easiest way)
• there are still a few glitches that need to be ironed out, but nothing that affects functionality
• if you use BerryBuzz, you'll no longer have repeating audio notifications even if you use their new beta version.

I first did an upgrade (when the OS first leaked, you had to install 191 onto your desktop and then unzip the 230 files over it).  The upgrade went well.

The second time around I did a wipe / full install (again, BBSAK is great for this) because the full 230 installer leak dropped.  If you use Google Sync or Google Maps, you'll have to load the .cod files from your 3rd party app backup because the m.google.com site won't let you install Sync, and it'll give you the wrong version of Maps.

Now that the IM clients, Facebook, AppWorld, and now BBM have been updated to OS 5, you should be good to go.

I also had a problem with AppWorld, where it seemed to think I was in Europe (not just showing me prices in Euros, but giving me Europe-specific app listings).  Weird fix: I had to remove the installed AppWorld, remove my SIM card, and re-download AppWorld.  I haven't checked out what happens if I put the SIM back in (I think I was getting redirected to a different download because the SIM was present, but not really sure).

Good luck!

So, this guy makes a great File Manager app for BlackBerry called FileScout.

One of the newer (and most useful in my opinion) features is the ability to select multiple files and attach them to an email right from the app.  The only way to do this natively in the BlackBerry OS is to create an email and then attach each file one-by-one until you're finished.

Here's the tip:

In order to use that new cool multiple file-select goodness on your Storm, you'll need to bring up the keyboard via the BB menu, and hit space on each file you want to select.  When you're finished, you can use the menu commands to zip, copy, or email the files you've selected.

If you try it and like it, donate to Matthias, like I did.

Some love for the Storm users. OS 5.0.0.230

How to install 5.0.0.230 on your Storm

In short, install 5.0.0.191 and unzip .230 over it, then run apploader.

Yep, when the price is slashed to 25% of the original it's a blowout... an inventory blowout, ifyaknowwhatimean...

via Verizon cuts BlackBerry Storm pricing to $50.

Since BlackBerry AppWorld seems to be having some issues downloading/installing the new OpenTable mobile app for BB, here's some instructions:

1. go here: http://www.getjar.com/products/28420/OpenTable
2. download the .alx and the .cod files to your PC (I don't think the device matters)
3. connect BB to PC, start up DM ( :-p )
4. goto Application Loader
5. goto Add/Remove Applications
6. click Browse, find the downloaded .alx file
7. click Next

...and that should be it;  now go make a reservation!