• Settings menu

    With Settings, you can globally change many aspects of how FreeRange operates and appears.

    Within the Settings menu, you have the following options:


  • Account

    Here you enter your FreeRange username and password that you recieved when you signed up for an account. If you created an account from the phone, this will already be filled in for you.

    You can also set your connection type. The four options are:

    - Automatic. This finds the best connection option for you automatically.

    - BES with MDS. This option is a placeholder if your company uses a BES and can only be used if you install the Corporate version.

    - BIS-B. This is if your carrier option supports the Blackberry Internet Service (which most do).

    - WAP. Use this if your carrier uses a WAP gateway. If you select this, you will also need to use the "Wap Settings" menu to configure it.

    - Direct TCP/IP. Use this if your phone is properly configured for direct TPC/IP connections. Search on the Internet for the correct way to do this.


  • Display

    Here you set options to change the way the interface behaves.

    - Home view. "Folders" is the default and shows feeds and folders together. "Feeds" will remove all folders and show a sorted list of all your feeds. "Articles" shows all articles for all feeds in the top-level screen.

    - Theme. This will change the colors and appearance of the interface using several pre-defined themes.

    - Show new articles with. This changes how unread articles will appear in the interface.

    - Show new articles with. This changes how unread articles will appear in the interface.

    - Trackball click displays menu. If your Blackberry has a trackball, you can turn this on to bring up the menu instead of the default which is to select.

    - Full Screen. If on, you will not see the top and bottom status bars.

    - Full Screen. "Normal" is the default. "Normal, no status" removes the top and bottom status bars. "Fullscreen" removes device upper status and the menu bar. "Fullscreen, no status" is both "Normal, no status" and "Fullscreen".

    - Collapse folders at startup. Turn this on if you would like all of your feed folders to be collapsed when you start the FreeRange.

    - Display articles grouped by date. Turn this off if you do not like to see articles seperated by date in the Articles screen.

    - Display split view. If you turn this on, when you visit the Articles screen, the Abstract screen will share the bottom half of the screen. In this mode, all operations work exactly the same way for navigation.

    - Wrap article text. If you turn this off, in the Articles screen, article titles will not occupy more than one line.

    - Automatically mark articles as read. If you turn this off, when you got to an article's Abstract, the article will not be marked as read.

    - Show confirmation message (all). If you turn these off, you will not see a message dialog when performing these actions.

    - Close sends application to background. If on, the application will stay in the background when you leave it. If off, the application will exit when you leave it (if closed, it will not perform automatic updates).

    - Scroll text by page. If you turn this off, you will scroll text by line instead of by page.

    - Show oldest articles first. If you turn this on, the date order of articles in the Articles screen will be reversed (newest at the bottom).

    - Remember the last article selected for each feed. If you turn this off, when you visit each Article screen, the first article will always be selected. If turned on, the selection will be remembered for each feed.


  • Screen font

    This allows you to choose a specific font (with size and smoothing) for the application.


  • Images

    This allows you to turn off automatic loading of thumbnail images and also to determine what the default thumbnail size should be.


  • Download

    Here you set options to change aspects of downloading articles.

    - Time in minutes between automatic Update. This is set to 0 by default. If you set this value, FreeRange will automatically Update on that interval. You cannot set this value to less that 40 minutes because the server does not update articles any more frequently than this.

    - Maximum number of articles to download per feed. Anytime you do an Update for all of your feeds, the server will only return a maxmimum of these many articles for each feed. This is done to speed up the process of updating. You can change this value to download more or less articles. Even if you set it to zero, you will still only get a maximum of 100 articles because that is how many our server stores per feed.

    - Maximum size of article abstract text downloaded. This will allow you to set a maximum size for every article abstract. You might want to change this if you increased the number of articles downloaded but still wanted to limit the total size of the update.

    - Maximum size of full story text downloaded. This will allow you to set the maximum size of the full story text downloaded. You might want to change this if you have full stories that have a lot of comments and you are not getting them all.

    - Automatically download pending "Flight mode history" items during during Update. If turned off, this will not send "Flight mode history" items during the Update. You have to send them manually via "Update" -> "All Flight mode history items".

    - Store full story. If turned off, full stories will not be stored after they are downloaded. You might turn this off if you wanted to conserve space on your device.

    - Download feed icons. If turned on (default), this will download the FavIcon for each feed, if that feed has one.

    - Update when application first runs. This will perform an Update when the FreeRange first starts.

    - Use port 8080. You might set this if you are having connectivity problems to see if it might help.


  • Cache

    Here you set options to manage the amount of data stored on your phone.

    - Total maximum number of articles stored. This sets a limit on how many articles will be stored on the phone. If the number of articles exceeds this, then the older articles will be automatically deleted from the phone.

    - Total maximum number of "Flight mode history" items stored. This sets a limit on how many history items will be stored on the phone. If the number of articles exceeds this, then the older history items will be automatically deleted from the phone.

    - Maximum full story data stored. This is the maximum amount of storage allocated for storing all full stories. If you see older full stories getting deleted automatically, then you should increase this value.

    - Maximum image data stored. This is the maximum amount of memory allocated for storing all images (thumbnails and zoomed).


  • del.icio.us

    Here you enter account information for del.icio.us.


  • Turn Flight mode on

    This allows you to manually turn on and off Flight Mode


  • Restore defaults

    You can do this to delete all data so that you can download your feeds fresh again. It does not reset your account information or your delicious account information.