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Events for this week include:

Wednesday, August 18
Green Drinks Toronto, 6:00p to 9:00p
Join NGOs, academia, students, government and business to discuss all things green.

Thursday, August 19
BlackBerry Developers Group Meeting, 6:00p to 8:00p
Discussing Blackberry 6.0 and planning for September’s BlackberryCamp.

Friday, August 20
Likemind Toronto, 7:30a to 9:00a
Because drinking good coffee with likeminded people is fun.

For a casual Saturday…
Saturday, August 21
Wines of Germany, beginning at 11:30a, LCBO wine tasting at various locations throughout the day.
Girl Fight, beginning at 7:30p, 5 girls fights at Twist Gallery with music by Betti Forde.
Goodbye Tight Knit, beginning at 10:00p, farewell dance party at Augusta house with Duotone and more.

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After struggling mightily with a Blackberry 8900 over the weekend (seriously, almost every aspect of the OS on that thing is broken – from email to Wifi to Web browsing. What a nightmare!), it’s nice to see that Blackberry is actually attempting to improve their user experience with Blackberry 6.

While I haven’t used one yet, the videos and articles I’ve seen highlight some key improvements to how the touch interface is handled, while the larger touch screen makes viewing and interacting with the device a lot easier.

They’ve also built their browser on WebKit, the same engine that drives Apple and Android browsers and simply an indescribably better engine than whatever beastly thing they had been using previously. Granted, their new Blackberry Torch has a low resolution screen, but with Wi-Fi media synching, that’s a fair tradeoff. This is the one area where Apple needs to make some vast improvements, and I’m expecting just that with the next release of iOS.

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Here’s the Blackberry email configuration screen:

There’s clearly no ability whatsoever to specify your server settings or even confirm what Blackberry thinks your server settings are.

Here’s the javascript error you get if Blackberry presumably can’t reconcile your email address and password with whatever server settings they’re hiding from you:

Yes, of course I’ll contact our service provider because they’ll surely be able to change the server settings Blackberry doesn’t allow you to change. Idiots.

Finally, here’s an excerpt from the help popup that loads when you click the question mark beside either the email address or password field on the Set Up Email screen:

“Type the address of your messaging server.” You think?! How ignorant.

But wait, this isn’t entirely true: a call to Rogers technical support informs us that “you should be seeing a red error message that says ‘provide additional settings.’”.

Nope. Not seeing that. All I see is a javascript popup with no option other than to click OK. And I’ve tried to set this email up in Firefox and Safari.

“Oh, you’re not using Internet Explorer?”

Oh, of course! How stupid of me.

Alas, still no luck with Internet Explorer 7, but I bet, just bet it would work fine in Internet Explorer 6. Too bad for me, I have no access to that 10 year old browser, but thankfully my Rogers rep can load that right up on his screen. My hero!

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