I'm the happiest man alive

Generally speaking, I'm a pretty satisfied BlackBerry user. My sole frustration was the limited options for customization. If you own a 8220, you know that you can change ringtones, the main screen's wallpaper, and the order of your icons in te home page. For anything beyond that, you'll need to download a theme. Now, a problem common to all BB users is that that free themes are usually crappy, and the cool ones cost up to $US 10, which btw you can't try before buying.

This is when my parent's education kicks in. A basic rule in my house is: if you are not getting what you want, it's simply because you are not trying hard enough. So, I started trying harder, and that usually means do-it-yourself.

I'll speare you the details and make this long story short, I found the software used to create themes! Before I had a boring black screen in the outside display... now I have a beautiful picture of the National Scottish Monument in Carlton Hill from my last try to Edinburgh. Before I had only four icons arranged horizontally in the home screen... now I have two columns of four vertically arranged icons. I changed the font of all text inside the phone, the image on the back on the menu and when I'm receiving a call, and some of the battery and signal status icons. Now the phone does feel like its mine :)

A little disclaimer about the image: instead of the black boxes wallpaper, I have a picture of the Marx brothers (I'm not talking about Groucho, Gummo, Zeppo, Chico and Harpo, instead it's a picture of The CiFs, with L.C. and M.A.), but for the sake of annonimity it has been replaced. The replacement image wasn't choosen randomly, the black boxes appear when I receive a call or an email. Also, I have the Facebook, BB Messenger and MSN Messenger icons on the left column! Maybe if the "historic trio" gathers again in NYC, I can put a pic of that in the outside display (the last time the trio gathered, all members felt too fat for pictures).

It's the small things (and the ones I do by myself) that make me happy!