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I’m a keyboard user. That’s why I like my blackberry. It fits my hand perfectly and the keyboard rocks. The Bold 9000 had the perfectly sized keyboard but my new torch runs a close second.

Of course, the torch supports a lot more application storage as well as Blackberry 6 OS. I loooove it.

Most of the keyboard short cuts from the bold era still work but there are new ones and, because of the touchscreen capability, some changes. To help me remember, I decided to throw together a cheat sheet.

The Blackberry Torch Keyboard Shortcut cheat sheet is hosted on Scribd. Check it out.

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From the Cloud Computing Blog.

If you haven’t already, you should read page 1 and page 2 first.

MobiPocket

The free MobiPocket ebook reader used to be produced by a German company but they are now an Amazon subsidiary. The Mobi format is what the Kindle uses as the default format for all of those ebooks. That means that for a Kindle, if you want to view PDFs, you need to convert them to Mobi format. Fortunately, Mobi provides that functionality.

I have been using mobi on my blackberry for a long time now. I mainly used it to read free science fiction books the Baen Free Library.

From the Cloud Computing Blog.

If you haven’t already, you should read page 1 first.

BeamReader

BeamReader, formerly BeamBerry, is produced by SLG Mobile. BeamReader was originally created BeamBerry as a hosted service. It would translate the PDF on a server and stream the output to your device. SLG still offers a service like this (for PDFs and many other document types) and even offers a print service. The newer BeamReader provides a native PDF renderer and they claim to be “the first full fidelity native PDF reader for BlackBerry”.

Unfortunately, I had some major problems with BeamReader while trying to do this review.

From the Cloud Computing Blog.

Today’s post is a little bit different than my normal fare. In my quest for mobile productivity, I have been looking for a way to carry my technical library with me where ever I go. While I can upload my PDFs to various Cloud OSes, and I do, I still have a need to access my documentation while disconnected. Plus, I still have to view those documents when I may not have a computer available (although with my EEE PC 1000h, that is rare these days). That leaves me with my phone.

I recently upgraded to a blackberry bold.