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Here's how to turn a full-length DVD movie into a Pearl movie file



On his anxiousdog blog, blogger anxiousdog (didn't I just say that) tells us how to rip a DVD to an .avi file, and then convert it into a video playable on a BlackBerry Pearl. He's actually done it with a movie called Forget Paris.

In this post, I will tell you what anxious dog did, as well as include a detailed description of the DVD to .avi process necessary as a prelude to BlackBerry media conversion.

First, h anxiousdog used a program called SimpleDivX to rip a DVD and convert it into an avi. He links to the instructions but doesn't actually spell them out. That doesn't mean we won't. In fact, we will.

Come along, for directions written by Jinks, screencaps taken by him too and then P-shopped by yours truly.

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Let's watch!: man busts up his BlackBerry with bricks and machinery


You Tuber cyberweasel set out one day to break his BlackBerry 7230.

He didn't just place it on the ground and run over with it with his car. No, cyberweasel enlisted the help of bricks and reasonably heavy machinery.

The he put it up on YouTube.

Then I put it up here, with a total of ten screen grabs I think you will want to see. That's the first one at the top of this post

Leaves nine to go.

Come along...

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Mac OS X tethered modem solution for BlackBerry



On his blog, Alex King writes that Daniel Pasco has figured out how to use the BlackBerry 870* series as a Bluetooth modem in Mac OS X.

"I've just tested a development build that allowed me to browse the web and download mail," Alex exclaims. "Awesome! Daniel claims the bounty.

The bounty, incidetally, is $675.

Alex adds that Daniel is hard at work polishing it up and quashing the little quirks that exist in the early dev stages of any product, but it already has been tested and works with the 8700g (T-Mobile) and the 8703e (Sprint and Verizon).

Funny, I always thought Pasco was just a city in Washington State.

How to disassemble a BlackBerry Pearl-lots of pix, too!


Tom Glogowski from the BlackBerry FAQ and BlackBerryForums.com has alerted me to a newly posted article he's written and illustrated entitled 8100 Disassembly. Link below.

There's instructions, and plenty of pix.

"Please be sure you have the proper tools for this disassembly, as well as a dust free environment you can create," Tom writes. "I recommend that latex gloves be used to prevent fingerprints from showing on the lcd and other visible areas.

Then Tom issues this important warning: be sure to remember the dissasembly steps, as you will need to put it back together once you are done.

OK, now let's get started, shall we?

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