I just stumbled on a nice collection of Tips and Tricks for your BlackBerry smartphone compiled by Research in Motion and published on the official BlackBerry site. The BlackBerry hardcore user will know most of them but I guess there is also something new for you.

We bring our mobile phones everywhere and sometimes when you are somewhere in the dark and wish you would have a flashlight you can also use you BlackBerry to see in the dark. No, not just by using the display – you can use the internal flash which is much better (and you don’t need to buy any of the Flashlight Applications.

 
I am a huge fan of Opera Mini which features a much better browsing experience on your BlackBerry smartphone than the native BlackBerry browser does. If you haven’t installed Opera Mini on your BlackBerry smartphone yet, open the address http://mini.opera.com/ in your BlackBerry browser and download it.

If you have several different email address that you use on your BlackBerry you might have realized that the BlackBerry email application is using pre-defined standard email address. While it is possible to change the sender email address for each email you send, this is inconvenient and time-consuming.

The BlackBerry allows to include automatic signatures on every email that is sent from your mobile device. This is convenient so people know that you are writing your email from a mobile device. Unfortunately there is no built-in functionality to do this also with SMS text messages but this workaround can help you.

 
One very practical feature of email is the ability to receive confirmations when your email has been successfully been delivered and also when it has been read by another person. This way you can ensure that people don’t have an excuse to say that they didn’t get your email even if you are 100% sure that you have sent it to them.

Every BlackBerry’s also includes an Event Log which displays your system’s recently run events and processes. Whenever you are experiencing a problem with your BlackBerry the information that is stored in the Event Log can be quite helpful for troubleshooting.

When you get a lot of emails on your BlackBerry you might sometimes lose overview which emails are still relevant and which are not. And sometimes you just want to delete old emails that you don’t need anymore to have more free memory on your BlackBerry.