{"id":115,"date":"2008-08-04T12:29:18","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T17:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2008-08-04T12:32:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T17:32:15","slug":"blackberry-curve-8300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2008\/08\/blackberry-curve-8300\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackberry Curve 8300"},"content":{"rendered":"

My work recently provided me with an all-expenses-paid Blackberry Curve 8300. Yay.<\/p>\n

That’s both a good and a bad thing.
\nGood: I have a free phone that I can always check on my work email, personal email, sports scores, talk with people, take pictures of products, etc.
\nBad: I have a device that keeps me always in contact with people that need my help.<\/p>\n

So I’ve had it for about a month now. I stopped using the silly leather holder they provide in favor for a easier approach: I just lock it and throw it in the pocket.<\/p>\n

Then, just yesterday, I stopped being able to move the ball to the left. Correction, I could move the ball to the left, but the cursor wouldn’t recognize any of my efforts. Up, down, right – they all worked just fine.<\/p>\n

I’m not one to just sit around sulking, so I jammed a skinny flat screwdriver under the plastic (but metal looking) ring that holds the trackball in place. You can do the same – just above the T and Y keys. Just slowly pry it up, then the ring comes out. Then you can flip the whole phone upside down and the trackball assembly falls gently into your hand.<\/p>\n

\"Blackberry<\/a>
Blackberry Curve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is when I noticed a piece of crud (technical term, I know) on one of the wheels that spins. Crud free is the way for me!<\/p>\n

Needless to say it all works now. Pretty sure I put the wheel back in upside down, but it doesn’t matter to the phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My work recently provided me with an all-expenses-paid Blackberry Curve 8300. Yay. That’s both a good and a bad thing. Good: I have a free phone that I can always check on my work email, personal email, sports scores, talk with people, take pictures of products, etc. Bad: I have a device that keeps me … Continue reading Blackberry Curve 8300<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-hardware","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}