Best Android calendar notifications

Options:

• Google calendar (built in) - notification icon only stays visible for duration of "event", so not suitable for reminding you to do something, if you don't check your phone at the right time, you won't see anything. Notifications are only visible if you pull down the notification drawer.
• isoTimer - notification stays there, but app has a slightly weird UI and is slow.
• Touch Calendar - ?

How to download a gmail attachment on mobile

How to download a gmail attachment on your mobile:

• Go to the gmail website on your mobile, the mobile version will load
• Click the 'Basic HTML' link at the bottom
• A download link will now be visible in your emails

Turn off gmail notification sound in Android

gmail app version 2.3.5.2:

• go to inbox
• press menu | more | settings
• select your account
• scroll down to the bottom
• select 'Labels to notify'
• here you can change the notification sound or disable it, set vibration and other settings

Ways to access Google Reader on Blackberry

• Blackberry browser - Google Reader site doesn't work, site says it's loading too slowly and fails.
• Blackberry browser - add all RSS feeds manually as bookmarks - too tedious.
• Opera Mini - Google Reader works. Opera settings:
• Mobile view: off
• Full screen: on
• View Google Reader in: Mobile view (link at bottom of web page)
• Apps on Blackberry Curve 8900, Platform 5.2.0.67, App Version 5.0.0.681
• BeReader 1.1.49 (BerryReader, free trial) - I logged in and selected 'choose feed', it crashed with "Uncaught exception: Application berryreader(421) is not responding; process terminated".
• Viigo 3.1.507 - Works great for its built-in feeds, but adding my Google Reader results in "no feeds" warning and "authentication error". Also can't change font size or wrap titles, so you only see the first 4-6 words of the title. Loading the article is fast though.

Get all past podcasts in iTunes

• Display the podcasts in list view (details view)
  
• Ctrl-click on the triangle next to the podcasts
• Voila! You will see a list of the past episodes to select
  

Phone twiddles

Any phone:

• *#06# - show IMEI number
  

Blackberry only:

• from home screen: Hold Alt and type E, A, C, E - displays OS version

Make IMAP Gmail work on blackberry

If you enter your Google email address when prompted, there is no way to configure advanced settings to make IMAP accounts work. In fact, I called Orange and was told that their Blackberries do not support IMAP with Gmail, and it does not work.

But they are wrong. It does work - you need to enter an email address that is not one of the major commercial providers, but does host email accounts. I used a fake email alias @ a domain I know has a working mail record: siteaboutnothing.com

Then, as you follow the prompts, choose "Advanced settings" or similar, and you are able to set the server to imap.gmail.com and change the email address back to your gmail account.

I now have it set up so messages marked as read on my phone are sync'ed with my main gmail account and I don't have to manage two accounts at once.