ImBen has released a free Leopard (Mac OS 10.5) like theme for most of the new BlackBerry OS 4.2.1 devices. The theme comes in two flavors, one has a today screen and the other does not. Personally I love certain parts of the themes but wish others would be better. The theme has a great [...]

ESPN has teamed up with RIM to provide you a free shortcut to ESPN mobile on your BlackBerry homescreen. There are no frills when it comes to the link since it is really only just a shortcut link to the mobile ESPN website shown on the left. You can get the shortcut at this link [...]

One of our former editors choice award winners, PocketDay, has released PocketDay v5.11 which is a free upgrade for all existing users. You can check out some screenshots of the new version on these two posts post 1 and post 2. If you don’t currently use PocketDay check out the review of it at this [...]

I just discovered and tried something new on my BlackBerry and I thought I would share it with you all. If you transfer a JAR (JAVA) file to the media card or memory of your device using either mass storage mode or desktop manager you will be able to install the file from your BlackBerry. [...]

With all the reports of Yahoo mail having an outage on Sprint it seems to actually be a more widespread problem with other carriers experiencing problems. My Yahoo account on Cingular/AT&T was also problematic due to this outage.
RIM has posted a KnowledgeBase article that claims if you remove and reintegrate the Yahoo account to your [...]

Seidio has been hinting at a release of an OEM-sized extended battery for the BlackBerry curve for awhile. The new Battery packs in 1300MAH which means around 15% more battery life. The cool part is that unlike previous extended batteries this battery is the same size as the original battery so you don’t need a [...]

S4BB has just announced an update to their commercial BlackBerry Video Generator. While there are free options out there for video conversion this one always seems to be the simplest and fastest way to get video to your BlackBerry. The main reason I am posting this is for all the current users this update is [...]

Moving Map is another free GPS application that is just starting to show some support for BlackBerry devices. They claim on their website that they now support the BlackBerry 8800 (With limitations). Moving Map is actually targeted towards people in the aviation industry with this the first application they have released. The main feature of [...]

Today I decided to take a chance and try another one of the free GPS programs that now support BlackBerry Devices. As a fair warning most of these free applications are on the bleeding edge and do not even come close to Google Maps or Telenav in terms of ease of use or even getting [...]

TrackMyJourney is a free web based GPS tracking solution. They do have a beta version of the application that runs on your 8800 series BlackBerry and makes use of the internal GPS. To be honest this program and website are quite complex and has features that I don’t quite understand but I know enough to [...]