The Weather Channel has decided to take another initiative in marketing with a BlackBerry giveaway!  Although they display a BlackBerry Storm on their page, it is indeed a BlackBerry Curve 8900.  There are 30 devices to go around in the next 30 days.  This could be you!

All you have to do to win is the following:

1) Enter your email address from your BlackBerry browser.

2) Enter your email address again from your desktop.

The contest is open to residents in the US and District of Columbia and begins June 1st, 2009 at 12:00AM EST. The contest ends June 30th, 2009 at 11:59 EST.

Source: BerryReview

-by Mac Jadalhack

Just in from Elecite, the Mechanism Theme for the BlackBerry Bold, Curve 8900, and Storm 95xx.  Providing the best icons out there, Mechanism appears both fashionable and sleek for your BlackBerry device.  For only $6.99, you can download this theme on your BlackBerry.  Check out the screen shots below to get a little preview of what it’ll look like on your device.  These screen shots are for the Bold 9000.  It’s exactly the same on the Curve 8900, and is customized more to fit better on the Storm 95xx series.  Click the link below to download the theme and to check out the other screen shots.  Enjoy!

Click here to download Mechanism

-by Mac Jadalhack

Finally, from what it looks like to be a successful BlackBerry social networking tactic.  Sure we’ve seen many websites out there for Blackberry PIN exchanging, but they all pretty much were consistently the same and didn’t deliver something better than its previous competitor.  Here’s an actual application for your BlackBerry.  Pinwall allows you to make friends and business contacts through a powerful interface, right on your mobile device.

Key Features:

• Upload your personal/business profile.
• Upload your picture.
• Search, find and contact new people.
• Be found and get contacted by others.
• Add users to your address book.

It’s FREE! Join the Pinwall social network now! Click here to download via BlackBerry or type http://m.getpinwall.com into your BlackBerry browser to download!

Source: BerryReview

-by Mac Jadalhack

After posting the T.I. theme for the BlackBerry Storm, we’ve getting endless requests for a Drake theme.  Who is Drake?  Drake is rapper born in Canada with an African American father in Tennessee, and a white Jewish mother.  He started his career acting and in the last few years he kept enhancing his career in the music industry making amazing tracks with other famous artists such as Lil Wayne.  Here’s a theme based on Drake, which features him posing differently throughout each menu.  In addition all the icons and fonts have been customized to go along with urban scene.  Special thanks to  buddahhh. for providing this theme!

OTA

-by Mac Jadalhack

Contained in this fictional book is a huge collection of fake messages and emails that President Obama sends and receives through his BlackBerry.  It is a book for clear fun, poking more at Obama’s obsession with the device more or so.  The book is available over at Amazon for about $10.

Source: BerryReview

-by Mac Jadalhack

It’s a big day today, as Alarm.com has went ahead and enhanced its web enabled security by making accessible via BlackBerry.  There is also iPhone support, but nothing that would interest us in that.  Alarm.com, the leading provider of wireless and web-enabled security and monitoring technology for homes and businesses, has expanded its security awareness and remote control offering with the launch of two new native apps for iPhone and BlackBerry. Alarm.com’s new iPhone app, which runs on both iPhone and iPod touch, has been approved by Apple and is now available in the iTunes App Store. The Alarm.com BlackBerry app can be downloaded directly to BlackBerry devices by visiting a special URL provided to Alarm.com customers by their Authorized Alarm.com Dealers. The Alarm.com iPhone and BlackBerry apps enable on-the-go consumers to control their home and business security systems from anywhere, whether they’re 2000 miles away on a business trip or sitting on the couch 15 feet from their security keypad. The new mobile apps are fully integrated with Alarm.com’s remote security and monitoring offering, connecting Alarm.com customers to their security systems from anywhere at any time.

Click here to check out the full press release

-by Mac Jadalhack

It has been announced that any new BlackBerry applications submitted to BlackBerry App World between June 1, 2009 and September 25, 2009 may be eligible to compete in this year’s challenge. Complete rules and regulations are available online.

A total of 16 finalists will be selected from eligible applications submitted over the contest period. The finalists will each receive a prize package valued at more than US$5,000 and be invited to compete for a grand prize package valued at over US$100,000; and a runner up prize package worth more than US$25,000. Judges will be looking for the most compelling product or service, clearly defined value proposition, and technical execution.

Do you have what it takes?  Either way, you should be submitting your applicatons to the BlackBerry App Store as you will have nothing to lose.

It’s going to be really exciting over the next few months seeing developers really putting their thoughts and ideas into BlackBerry applications.

To read more information, click here.

-by Mac Jadalhack

How much would you pay to protect your BlackBerry from scratches and buffs?  The Invisible Shield has done wonders for many at a low rate of only $24.95.  How does $660 sound for protection?

U.K. based designer Alexander Amosu has released another exorbitantly expensive BlackBerry accessory: The new BlackBerry Bold case, available in variety of colors–like black, red, gray, brown and Caribbean blue–and leathers, including crocodile and ostrich-skin.

Compared to Amosu’s custom devices, these Bold cases are actually quite affordable. The company’s diamond-encrusted, black Bold goes for roughly $8,900, while the custom Amosu Pearl 81xx’ll set you back more than $17,000.

The new Amosu BlackBerry Bold case looks very much like RIM’s standard, $30 BlackBerry “sleeve,”–your device slides in on top and there’s no strap to fasten or keep your device in place–but they’re made of crocodile, python, ostrich and lizard skins. And they’re perfect for protecting your custom Amosu Bold, your ColorWared device or any other pricey personalized ‘Berry.

Few additional details are available on the cases. For instance, it’s not a definite as to whether or not they feature sleep magnets to put your BlackBerry device in standby mode when in place in its case.  The sleeper magnets are in every single BlackBerry case.  If you are spending this much on a case, don’t you think it should be a given.  I would not be surpirsed the slightest bit if they came out with an “oops” after people went ahead and complained!

Source: CIO

-by Mac Jadalhack

The folks over at BlackBerryCool have discovered a rather funny yet useful free application for your BlackBerry Storms.  For all us BlackBerry users, it is just annoying when others have our devices in their hands.  As Kyle from BlackBerryCool put it, our whole lives are on our BlackBerry devices, just about.  Some of you are laughing, but somewhere on your BlackBerry, you do have vital information you would strongly like to keep for yourself.  So what does this app do?  Any time an intruder gets near your phone, it will bark, and of course you have the special privileges of enabling and disabling your guard dog.  Click “bWatchDoggy” below to download.

-by Mac Jadalhack

Source: BlackBerryRocks

Browsing via BlackBerry? Click here to view video!

It’s been confirmed that Palringo is now available via BlackBerry App World!  It’s a great application that puts all your messengers all in one giving you actual desktop messenger priviledges such as having multiple chat windows, sending/receiving images, and even sending voice notes.  It’s a simple and easy way to get things done on messenger, and from my own personal experience, it doesn’t drain your battery as fast as these other applications are!  Check it out for yourself by heading over to the BlackBerry App World to download Palringo!

Source: BlackBerryCool

-by Mac Jadalhack