Real World Computing

I'd like to say that I've reached the end of our changes, fixes and upgrades for the year but it's simply not true. Work is increasing drastically as we try to make use of the "quiet business period" to install new systems and have outages. Look out for a bunch of posts early in the new year to describe some of the best and worst of our installations. In the meantime, it's Christmas eve. Instead of doing a completely off-topic post about a holiday which might not appeal to all my readers, I thought I might wrap up the year with my "layman's" (generally ignoring the finances) perception of how the computing giants have performed this year. In the meantime, if you're accepting well-wishes for the season, you have mine. Quick Disclaimer: Everything here is my own personal thoughts - so don't place too much reliance on it - and don't try to sue me. We're all entitled to our thoughts, so get over it. 2009 has been an amazing year in ...

I was asked to help someone with this today and I spent ages searching for the option (because it's not in the obvious place). I didn't get a lot of help online either, so I thought I'd put a post out there to fill in the gap. It's not on the spanner icon (settings) where you'd expect it to be. Procedure From the front screen of your Blackberry Push the green phone button Push the blackberry button Scroll through the menu to find "Options" Choose "General Options" Scroll down to "Show my Number" If it says, Yes, then your caller id displays when you ring people. If no, then it doesn't. Change it to whatever you want by pushing the pearl Push the Blackberry button and choose Save. It should take effect immediately. Bear in mind though that lots of people won't accept calls from unlisted numbers - though if you're having trouble getting people to accept calls from YOU on a listed number, maybe going unlisted is a better opti...