Exporting call logs, text messages and other info from a Blackberry

I need a way to extract the record of calls I've made and received on my Blackberry. It would also be handy to be able to archive old text (SMS) messages and other info. In addition to providing a good record of the time and duration of your calls, it's also nice to have an archive of your text messages going back over time.

After searching for a while, I came across a couple of ways to do this. The first way is an app called SBSH Historia which you can buy on Blackberry App World for a couple of €€/$$. This looks like a neat app, and very professional, but I didn't need to pay for it in the end as I found a way to do it for free using the Desktop Manager software on my Mac and a Java app called ipddump I found on Google Code.

Here are the instructions for how to do it on a Mac. The Windows procedure is broadly similar.