Halloween is creeping up on us rather fast and what better time than now to get in the spirit of things and dress up your BlackBerry to have a little fun. If themes are what you are looking for the CrackBerry App Store and forums are full of free and premium themes for all devices. Wanna scary or just festive wallpaper for your device? Be sure to check out the Crackberry wallpaper gallery and pick something you like. And finally, we cannot forget Halloween ringtones to give your BlackBerry a ghoulish ring. Check out all the things for Halloween and happy haunting!

Mac user? If so, we know you're tapping your feet waiting to for RIM to officially release Desktop Manager for Mac (which is supposedly going to happen on October 2nd, 2009). In the meantime, while we're waiting for some BlackBerry Mac love we thought we'd drop a little CrackBerry Mac love. 

Courtesy of CrackBerry reader Mathew Sechler, you can now download the free CrackBerry.com Widget for Mac! I know a lot you hardcore Mac users / CB readers simply keep CrackBerry.com open in a browser tab all day long (and you can still do that!) when you're at work or at home in the evening (and you're on the site from your BlackBerry when it between!), but the CrackBerry widget makes it easy for the rest of you to stay connected from your Dashboard. Within the widget, you can choose between the blogs, forums and store feeds so you'll always know what's new in the world of CrackBerry. You can grab it from the link below. Big thanks to Mathew for this. Enjoy it Mac users!!

• Download the CrackBerry.com Widget for your Mac >>

For a long time now we've had a twitter account for this site, but to date if you have been a follower of twitter.com/crackberry about the only thing that gets tweeted are the article titles/links that are posted here in the blogs. The other week when I logged into the account I saw that in addition to a ton of people re-tweeting those headlines, that many people ask questions to @crackberry which to date have gone largely ignored.... that is until now.

Introducing @crackberry twelpers! Borrowing from Best Buy's idea of a TwelpForce, we've given access to our @crackberry twitter account to some active and knowledgeable (and willing!) members of the CrackBerry community. Their mission? To answer all those BlackBerry-related questions that come to us on twitter. As best as they can, they'll either answer directly (in as few characters as possible) or find the link on CrackBerry that has the answer you're looking for.

We had an overwhelming amount of members offer to be a @crackberrry twelper (thank you!) and plan to grow the team with time, but in the beginning will be starting with the core group below. They'll sign off their @crackberry twelp tweets with a short signature so you know who's helping you, and can also find them on the forums and follow their own accounts on twitter:

@crackberry Twelpers starting lineup...

Once we work out the initial kinks that are bound to happen on this kind of endeavor and gauge the demand, we plan to increase the twelper team in size - so please keep posting on the forums and express your interest to twelp here. And if you have questions, be sure to follow @crackberry on twitter and ask!

• Question for the twelpers? Follow @crackberry on twitter and ask! >>

Happy Sunday! Hopefully you've had a good weekend so far. It was a busy week at CrackBerry with contests and a big app sale, so we just wanted to give a friendly reminder of what's going on so you don't miss out. The BlackBerry MobileHeist ends tomorrow and is offering up 15 new and popular apps for your BlackBerry at 50% off. We also posted a a bunch of contests throughout the week which all end tonight at midnight PST. To enter those, simply follow the links below and leave a comment on each respective post. Good luck!

CrackBerry Contests Ending tonight:

• 250 Free Copies of BerryBuzz >>
• 50 Free Unlock Codes for the Verizon Tour >>
• 100 Free Copies of ZenMinder >>
• 20 Free Copies of MindBerry >>
• 50 Free Unlock Codes for Verizon / Bell / Telus Tour >>

Another week, another contest. The news has been run over with all things Tour this week, but we need to take a quick break to announce the results of our Win A Free Copy Of PaderSyncFM! and ShortcutMe Gets an Update - 50 Free Copies contests. If you didn't win this time, check out our 250 Free Copies of BerryBuzz 2.0 contest and try your luck. Congratulations to all the winners!

I'll keep this short and sweet. The BlackBerry Tour is now available for sale from Verizon and Sprint with other carriers coming online soon, but there's one lucky member of CrackBerry Nation who won't have to buy one. The Grand Prize winner in our Win a BlackBerry Tour courtesy of CrackBerry.com Contest is:

jsanta11

We also had three runner-up prizes of $150 in accessories from ShopCrackBerry.com. The lucky winners here are: 

christiankim83, bradfordjohnson, and Gimik

Congrats to the winners! I'll be emailing you personally later today to arrange your prizes. And to everybody else..don't worry. At CrackBerry.com another contest is always just around the corner. In fact, you can still win a BlackBerry Tour via my Follow @crackberrykevin on Twitter contest. Details Here. 

Twitter. Some of you like it, some of you hate it and some of you are as addicted to it as you are your BlackBerry (gasp!). While we mainly use our @crackberry twitter account for CrackBerry blog post headlines or special event coverage, I tend to use my personal @crackberrykevin account to highlight the BIG stories, share my thoughts here and there on various things, to poll the community for advice and to give away free stuff! So on the topic of giving away free stuff via twitter, I've dreamed up our ongoing twitter contest (I feel bad that there were no Storm 2 in June Contest winners!).

Ongoing Twitter Contest: All you need to do is follow @crackberrykevin on twitter.  Every time I add 1,000 new followers, I'll give away some free BlackBerry apps or themes. And every time I add 5,000 new followers, I'll also give away some BlackBerry accessories (cases, headsets, etc.). AND when I hit 25,000 followers, I'll give away a new BlackBerry smartphone to a lucky follower! And this will be ongoing... keep following, keep re-tweeting and you'll keep having more and more chances to win.  

*Update - Save on SmrtGuard! - If you didn't win a free copy, the good folks at SmrtGuard have set CrackBerry readers up with a 10% off discount to purchase. Just FOLLOW THIS LINK! *

Last week to celebrate both Canada Day and Independence Day we held a contest for one of CrackBerry Nation's favorite apps / utilities / services, SmrtGuard. The results are in, and 100 lucky members can enjoy the week that much more now. Winners will receive a full year subscription to SmrtGuard (an awesome $45 value). Thanks to everyone that entered, and congrats to all the winners! And if you didn't win, don't worry... you know another CrackBerry contest is just around the corner (have you entered in our Win a BlackBerry Tour contest yet??). 

As I made note the other day with our CrackBerry/SPE Developer job posting, lots is going on behind the scenes to really take CrackBerry.com to the next level over the months ahead (we even have a little 'header' clean-up coming in the next week just to fresh'n things up a bit in the meantime).

And as we work towards CrackBerry 2.0, we'll be coming to the you, the readers, members, and customers of CrackBerry.com, to help provide us with further information and insight so we can deliver the quality improvements that you want to see.

Survey Time: That said, today we have two surveys we'd like you to fill out. The first is a BlackBerry Needs survey, while the second is a CrackBerry Importance survey. Whether you visit this site hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or even if this is your first time here, we'd love to hear from you. Thanks in advance for helping make CrackBerry.com even better!

• CrackBerry Survey #1 - Your BlackBerry Needs >>
• CrackBerry Survey #2 - What's Important on CrackBerry to You >>

With the BlackBerry Tour to be available from Verizon and Sprint on July 12th and shortly thereafter from Telus and Bell in Canada (and am sure other CDMA folks - Alltell, etc. will be getting it soon), it's time for us to have a good 'ole fashioned CrackBerry.com contest!!

Prizes:

• Grand Prize - A BlackBerry Tour 9630! From your CDMA carrier of choice: Verizon, Sprint, Telus, Bell, etc.. We'll get it to you as soon as it becomes available for purchase.
• Runner Up Prizes - $150 Coupon Code for Accessories from ShopCrackBerry.com! We have three of these to be won. 

To enter, all you need to do is login to CrackBerry.com and leave a comment to this blog post. Looking for something to comment on? Why not tell us What you love about the BlackBerry Tour! After you enter for your chance to win, do us a favor and take our CrackBerry Surveys so we can help make this site even better! Contest entry closes Midnight PST on Friday, July 10th. We'll contact the winners on the 11th so you know before the Tour goes on sale that you won. Keep in mind you can enter more than once but only your first entry comment will be entered into the contest. Good Luck!

Here they are - 200 winners in total this week. Two great contests, 100 free copies of Berry Weather, and 100 free copies of Wallpaper Changer. Check out the complete list of winners below. If you didn't win this time, you can still purchase both Wallpaper Changer and Berry Weather from ShopCrackBerry.com. And don't forget to check out out Canada Day and Independence Day Contest - and don't fret if you didn't win, more contests are certainly on the way!

To all of the BlackBerry users north of the border  reading this, have a Happy Canada Day!

And while you should be putting the BBs out of site for 24 hours to give family and friends your undivided attention, I'm sure many most all of you will all work at least a few minutes of CrackBerry time in between fireworks, BBQs, beers and the beach (let me guess...you're reading this on Viigo !). Since you're here on your day off, I'd recommend a leisurely stroll through the blogs, forums and ShopCrackBerry.com store. There's a ton of new apps and accessories out there for you to check out!

And a special shout out goes to all of the hardworking folks at Research in Motion, the makers of our beloved BlackBerry smartphones. Though RIM is a global enterprise these days, the company roots are dug deep in Canadian soil. I hope the guys and gals at RIM take the day off to rejuvenate... we're expecting a LOT from them in the months ahead (the gauntlet has been thrown), so we need everyone to be Fresh!

Love smartphones? Got mad php, mysql, css, etc. skillz?? If so, then we have the opportunity for you. Lots is going on behind the scenes to take CrackBerry.com and the Smartphone Experts network of community sites (TheiPhoneblog, PreCentral, etc.) to the next level and we're looking for a talented and motivated developer to work with us to help get the job done. If you're interested and think you have what it takes, you can check out this forum thread for more details.

And in case you were wondering... no, it is not required that you be a BlackBerry user to win the role, but be forewarned that if you're not sling'n a Berry I will convert you - resistance is futile... you will be assimilated! :-)

Drumroll please! We have the winners for our Win a Seidio Innocase 360 contest.  We had some great stories left in the comments.  Some made us tear up, and others we just flat out laughed.  All of the winners are truly deserving of Innocase 360 protection, so enjoy your prizes! Congrats to all the winners, who's CrackBerry usernames are listed below. 

Last week we brought you three great contests.  We started out with our "Go Nuts" Slacker Radio Express contest in which we had nearly 50,000 comments!  We followed that up with one from the new Express Unlock Code service, and rounded out with some free copies of the Chopper and Tipsy themes.  Take a look after the jump to see if you're a winner.  Big thanks to Slacker, Express Unlock Code and cpuking inc.