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Easily Copy Files from One Cloud Service to Another

Moving from Dropbox to Google Drive or SkyDrive. You can use mover to easily copy all your files from one cloud storage service to another, over the cloud. This story, Easily Copy Files from One Cloud Service to Another, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 31/08/2013 under Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, Internet

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Shortcuts to sentences, or why I love Word Substitution

For those that frequent the BlackBerry Support Community Forums, or chat about BlackBerry on Twitter, chances are you’ve most likely seen some stuff from JSanders, aka @Jsanders10, aka Joey! Whether its tips and tricks, or providing support, Joey has been helping people get the most from their BlackBerry devices since his first device, a BlackBerry 7100t. Continuing with this theme, Joey’s put together a great post that will help you get started with Word Substitution, one of my favorite ‘must use’ features! Take it away Joey! As a BlackBerry Elite I’m always on my BlackBerry Z10, texting, emailing or BBM’ing with friends, family and my colleagues and clients. Over the years I’ve learned how to save precious seconds by making use of every feature of my BlackBerry. Word Substitution, which lets me enter short combinations of letters that automatically become preset sentences, is easily my most used time-saver. I simply would not survive without it. (On BlackBerry OS devices, the same feature is called AutoText.) I use it constantly. Before leaving the office in the afternoon I send a BBM to my wife of “hh” which becomes “I’m headed home” or “otw” which becomes “I’m on the way home”. I have 5 or 6 preprogrammed so I can vary it most days. Interested in creating your own Word Substitution shortcuts? If so, here’s how! To customize Word Substitution on a BlackBerry 10 smartphone: Tap Settings followed by Language and Input Tap Prediction and Correction and then Word Substitution Tap Add a Shortcut at the bottom of the screen Enter your shortcut text in the first block, followed by the replacement text in the second field To customize AutoText on a BlackBerry OS 7.1 and earlier device: Select Options followed by Typing and Input Select Word Substitution Press the Menu key and select New Add your shortcut text in the Replace field and in the With field, enter your replacement text Your shortcut text will normally be some odd combination of two or more characters (think “zz,” “qq,” “jj,” “vv”) or a combination of characters that create some mnemonic reminder of your intended phrase. I use shortcuts for many things: “hb” is “Happy Birthday” and then I just type the name of the person (for all those Facebook birthday posts) “ll” inserts the ampersand “&” and “pp” inserts the percentage symbol “%” I have “myadd” which enters my office mailing address, city, state and postal code, and “myph” which enters my office phone number. I have a number of shortcuts entered for Twitter hashtags: “zt” enters #Z10, “qt” enters #Q10, “bbe” is #BBElite, “rt” is #RollTide and I could go on and on. Some of my shortcuts are longer multi-sentence and multi-paragraph Word Substitution insertions (because Word Substitution support line breaks, i.e., paragraph breaks!). I use those for client responses to job quotes and business inquiries which I need to handle at a later date, but I want my valued client to know I am working on the request. And I have a few others which explain detail some detailed technical matters I often get questions about. Lately, with the BB10, my keyboard has actually learned when I type some of those and the correct hashtag will appear as an automatic keyboard suggestion. I would simply not enjoy my BlackBerry without Word Substitution and I certainly would be much less efficient. Do you use Word Substitution? Share your favorite shortcut with the community by leaving a comment below. To learn about a feature on your BlackBerry 10 smartphone or troubleshoot an issue, there are several great options available to help. Visit http://www.blackberry.com/support for access to product manuals, how-to demos, tips and tricks, YouTube videos, support forums, knowledge base articles, Twitter support, and contact information for your region.

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Five Tip Friday – BlackBerry 10 Typing Tips Part 2

Happy Friday #TeamBlackBerry! To kick off the weekend, here are five more typing tips that I think you’ll want to know about. In case you missed it, make sure to check out the first Five Tip Friday BlackBerry 10 Typing Tips post. As always, if you have any questions or comments, make sure you leave a note below and let us know 1. Cursor Control With the release of BlackBerry 10.1, we implemented a new feature that makes moving the cursor to a specific location really easy. All you need to do is tap an area of text you would like to edit and a circular cursor will appear. To move the cursor around, simply tap on the top, bottom, left or right of the circle for precise control. 2. BlackBerry Z10 Keyboard Switching For those that are using a BlackBerry Z10, to switch between the text, number and symbol keypads, all you need to do is swipe down from the top of the keyboard using one finger. 3. Highlighting and selecting text In addition to selecting text manually using the selection indicators, your device can also select text automatically. All you need to do is tap an area you’d like to select and hold your finger. As you continue to hold your finger, you’ll notice that your device first selects a word, followed by the sentence, the paragraph and more. Personally I love this tip whenever I’m using one hand to type. 4. Capitalizing a letter (or adding accented characters!) One of the most used shortcuts on my Blackberry 10 devices is inserting a capital letter, or adding an accented character. Follow the steps below based on which type of BlackBerry 10 device you are using. BlackBerry Z10 – To capitalize a letter, tap and hold the letter until the change occurs. Depending on which key you have held, you may be presented with accented characters as well. To select one of these characters, slide your finger to the right or left across the menu of additional characters and highlight the character you’d like to insert before lifting your finger. In addition to holding a key to insert an uppercase letter, you can also add uppercase letter by tapping the letter, followed by sliding your finger to the shift key. BlackBerry Q10 & BlackBerry Q5 – To capitalize a letter, press and hold a key for a moment until the uppercase version appears. If you have held a key that contains accented characters, the accented characters will appear along the bottom of your screen that you can then tap. 5. Type faster with automated assistance settings You can change typing settings to help you type faster on your BlackBerry keyboard. For example, you can change your settings so that your device automatically capitalizes new sentences, or so that pressing the space key twice inserts a period. To review and customize these options, complete the following steps. On the home screen, swipe down from the top of the screen Tap Settings followed by Language and Input Tap Prediction and Correction Tap the settings that you want to change: Enable Auto-Correction – Fix errors by pressing the space key (the corrected word will appear in blue on the space bar) Enable Auto-Capitalize – Capitalize the first letter after a period Enable Period Shortcut – Pressing space bar twice adds in a period Use Learned Words – Allow your smartphone to predict and correct words based on your usage To learn about a feature on your BlackBerry 10 smartphone or troubleshoot an issue, there are several great options available to help. Visit www.blackberry.com/support for access to product manuals, how-to demos, tips and tricks, YouTube videos, support forums, knowledge base articles, Twitter support, and contact information for your region.

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