Press the Menu key, click on New and enter your task (an errand). Set the alarm 1. From the Home screen, click on Settings. Click on the Alarm icon. Set up the Alarm by selecting On for the Daily Alarm and Selecting the Time, Snooze. You can also synchronize your BlackBerry Curve with local information on your home/work computer such as calendar, contacts, tasks, and media files by using BlackBerry® Desktop software that comes on the enclosed BlackBerry® User Tools CD in the box. Text Messaging Let your thumbs do the talking. With the versatile keyboard, sending and receiving email, SMS, and MMS messages is easy and fast. An SMS can be sent to other mobile phones while an MMS can be sent to both mobile phones and email addresses. compose a text message From the Home screen, click on the Messages icon. Press the Menu key. Click Compose SMS Text. Select a name in the address book or click Use Once and add the recipients phone number(s) or email addresses and separate with a semicolon if necessary. Enter the message text. When you're through typing, click the trackball and Send. respond to a text message Click on the Messages icon on the Home screen. Using the trackball, scroll to and click the Text Message in your messages list. Click the trackball and click Reply. Type your message. Click the trackball, select Send. Typing Tips To enter symbols like. and @, press the SYM key. Personal Email BlackBerry® Internet Service email provides wireless "push" delivery and access up to 10 supported personal and work email accounts including MSNTM, Yahoo!TM, GMailTM, EarthlinkTM and many other popular ISP and personal email providers. How to set up supported email accounts from your BlackBerry Curve. From the Home screen, click the BlackBerry Setup icon. On the BlackBerry Setup screen, click the Personal Email Setup icon. Roll the trackball, scroll down and click Create New Account...