BlackBerry App Roundup for April 17th, 2009

Happy Friday all. Spring is truly here north of the border as things are finally starting to warm up here in the heart of the prairies. Grab a cool beverage, put your feet up, and enjoy this weeks' edition of the BlackBerry App Roundup. Covered this week are the following titles:

New This Week: SeaBattle, Dashboard Theme, MemStats, Space Ace, Numb Thumb

Apps on Sale: iBerry Xtreme Today Theme for BlackBerry Storm, iBerry Xtreme Today Theme, MemoryUp Professional, BerryLabyrinth, IM+ All-in-One Messenger, IM+ for Skype, ColorLight, QuickText, RDM+ Remote Desktop for Mobiles, FlipSide MP3 Player, Mobile Sudoku

Cool at BlackBerry App World: The Livestrong.com Calorie Tracker

Freebie of the Week: MacinStorm Theme

Note: Don't forget, you can always search for titles featured in the App Roundup within App World... Some apps mentioned may be available there for your device.

New This Week

SeaBattle

Anyone up for a classic game of Battleship!? That's basically what SeaBattle is! A pretty darn good remake of the classic board game for your BlackBerry. It features sharp graphics and animation to make gameplay quite enjoyable. Find and destroy your enemies ships before they sink all of yours! The same fleet is used here, you have your Carrier, Battleship, Submarine, Frigate and Destroyer (although for some reason the developer calls the Destroyer a 'Mine Sweeper'? At any rate, the game requires OS 4.3 or higher, 600K of main memory, and is NOT compatible for play on the Storm.

Get SeaBattle for $2.95 at ShopCrackBerry.com >

Dashboard Theme

Anyone into racing or fast cars should enjoy this theme. The Dashboard theme brings the dash of your car, right to your BlackBerry. The battery life and signal meters are customized in this one to look like gauges. Pretty cool. If you're a car nut this one could be worth the spend. It is compatible with all current Berry models with the exception of the Storm (see the 'Freebie of the Week' for some Storm love). OS 4.5 is also required.

Pick up the Dashboard Theme for $5.99 at ShopCrackBerry.com >

MemStats

MemStats is a powerful memory stats app available for most BlackBerry devices. With it you can see what memory is currently available, and object counts for code modules, RAM handles, object handles, persistent flash objects and much more. You can also view a list of running apps and switch to one of them right from within the app. Keep in mind though, that memory stats provided with MemStats are for your overall Berry device only. The BlackBerry OS does not allow us to view a specific apps memory usage. This is a tiny (under 10K) yet powerful app. All that is required here is OS 4.2 or newer.

For a limited time (till April 30th) you can pick up MemStats for $0.99 at ShopCrackBerry.com (Regular $2.95).

Space Ace

In this game from MLH Software, take control of your ship and try to stay alive as each level contains enemies that get faster and stronger. Fans of 'Star Trek' will no doubt be pleased that your ship does in fact look like the 'Enterprise' used in so many of the TV shows and movies (Trekkies, please correct me on the full name of the ship, I don't mind!). In a cool feature built-in, whenever you get hit with a shot your device will actually vibrate. There's also a silent mode, and the game has been designed for easy one or two hand play. OS 4.2 or higher is required, and your device must also have a trackball. Sorry, no Storm love here either.

Pick up Space Ace for $2.99 at ShopCrackBerry.com >

Numb Thumb

In Numb Thumb from Royalty Software Solutions, the goal is to type the falling words before they hit the bottom of the screen. It's a great way to improve your QWERTY typing skills while having fun at the same time! You might also get a 'Numb Thumb' in the process, hence the very appropriate name of the game. The game is available for the Bold on 4.6, Curve 8900 on 4.6.1 and the 8700, 8800 and 8300 series on OS 4.2.1 or newer... Oh, and how could I forget... Numb Thumb is available for the BlackBerry Storm as well. Now get busy and workout those thumbs!

Get Numb Thumb for $2.99 at ShopCrackBerry.com >

BlackBerry Apps on Sale

iBerry Xtreme Today Theme for BlackBerry Storm

Custom Deep Icons make this iBerry theme a must-own for the Blackberry owner!
Available now for $6.50 (Regular $7.00)
Offer ends May 8th

iBerry Xtreme Today Theme

For most other current Berry devices, the same iBerr Xtreme goodness for your non-Storm Berry :)
Available now for $5.50 (Regular $6.00)
Offer ends May 10th

MemoryUp Professional

MemoryUp Pro is a powerful BlackBerry RAM boosting tool and Java virtual machine (JVM) management application specially designed for BlackBerry users.
Available now for $14.99 (Regular $16.99)
Offer ends April 30th

BerryLabyrinth

Classic wooden labyrinth game where you control a steel ball to find a way to finish hole.
Available now for $6.99 (Regular $9.99)
Offer ends April 30th

IM+ All-in-One Messenger

Enjoy real time chat within all popular messengers. File and photo transfer, cheap SMS all over the world, only for 5 cents to US, Canada, UK! 
Available now for $19.99 (Regular $49.95) HUGE SAVINGS!
Offer ends May 1st

IM+ for Skype

IM+ for Skype enables text chat with other Skypers and provides cost-effective calling to landlines and mobiles. No extra voice delays even for long-distance calls! 
Available now for $19.99 (Regular $29.95)
Offer ends May 1st

ColorLight

You can customize Pearl trackball or Status LED and Phone Screen light with different colors/effects. It's very useful when you are in the dark!
Available now for $6.99 (Regular $7.99)
Offer ends April 30th

QuickText

Because texting should be quick.
Available now for $4.99 (Regular $7.50)
Offer ends April 30th

RDM+ Remote Desktop for Mobiles

RDM+ allows you to access your computer from your Blackberry. You can send and receive emails, surf web, edit documents, copy, cut, paste files etc.
Available now for $19.99 (Regular $49.95) HUGE SAVINGS!
Offer ends Mar 1st

FlipSide MP3 Player

A visually stunning MP3 player for your BlackBerry smartphone which lets you swoosh through full-screen color album art with your trackball.
Available now for $9.95 (Regular $19.95)
Offer ends May 1st

Mobile Sudoku

Solve Sudoku puzzles on the go with your BlackBerry!
Available now for $2.99 (Regular $9.99) HUGE SAVINGS!
Offer ends April 30th

Cool at BlackBerry App World

The Livestrong.com Calorie Tracker 

With the Livestrong.com Calorie Tracker you can start living a happier and healthier life right away! The app helps you determine an acceptable daily calorie target based on your weight and weight goals. Once your target is set, you can search the database of over 500,000 foods for all of the nutritional info you can handle. Fat, sugar, carbs, cholesterol numbers and more are all detailed for each item. The Livestrong.com Calorie Tracker is an ideal way to track not only caloric intake, but it can also be used to track your workouts, your weight loss progress and more. A very handy and useful app indeed, if used diligently and properly.

The Livestrong.com Calorie Tracker is available in BlackBerry App World right now for $2.99.

Freebie of the Week

For all of the Mac users out there, there's a new BlackBerry Theme floating around that turns your BlackBerry Storm into a Mac... Well, er... at least it makes the UI look a heck of a lot like Mac OS X :) The MacinStorm Theme from PimpMyBerry is available for the Storm series only, and brings a lot of Macintosh goodness to the Storm. There's the typical Mac dock at the bottom of your screen, and applications found on it will even bounce when selected. Also, instead of the default hourglass while the device is processing, the Mac 'beach ball' animation has been integrated to give the theme just one more touch of authenticity. I have to admit I do prefer the default 'Aurora' background that ships within Mac OS X, but the background image used in MacinStorm will still do very nicely...very nicely indeed.

For a download link, screenshots and more, head on over to PimpMyBerry.

Until Next Week..

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