BerryWeather is perhaps the best weather application for BlackBerry. It has an insane amount of features, and its totally customizable. It features a homescreen icon with temperature and conditions, weather alerts, multiple locations, forecasts, radar and more. The $9.95 tag may be a bit high for some users, but you can grab it today as the Deal of the Day for only $4.97. This is a excellent price for an app like this, so if you haven't picked it up yet now it your chance. Head over to the CrackBerry App Store to download.

• Download BerryWeather for only $4.97>>

BerrySki is an application for all you BlackBerry owners who love to ski or snowboard. It is a fully functional GPS app supporting maps from the United States and Canada (Europe coming soon). BerrySki if packed full of features including the following:

• Offline Usage: Downloading maps directly to your BlackBerry means you do not need an active internet connection to view maps or your location on them.
  
• Location: View your location on the resort, pan/zoom around to decide where you might like to go next.
  
• Recording of GPS Tracks: Your GPS capable BlackBerry can record the tracks/routes you have taken for viewing and analyzing later.
  
• Track Overlay: You can view your recorded routes overlaid on the resort map, showing you how much of the resort you have covered.
  
• Track Animation: You can play your tracks in the form of a red dot moving about the map. The red dot moves on your tracks in proportion to your speed as well.
  
• Statistics: You can view all tracks recorded in a detailed manner. Provides you with such analysis as the name and order of each lift and run taken, distance travelled, average speed, and maximum speed. Detailed information is also given on each difficulty level trail.
  
• Export Track: Recorded tracks can be exported into .gpx format supported by all mapping software.
  

BerrySki is a great way to make use of that BlackBerry just sitting in your pocket while your on the slopes. It has multiple pricing starting at $4.99 per season and runs on OS 4.2.

• More information and download of BerrySki>>

Are you a big fan of the Palm WebOS look and feel, but not quite ready to put down your BlackBerry to convert just yet? Over at BerryWorx they have made it possible for you to have the best of both worlds on your device. [Pre]defined offers users a crisp set of Palm Pre icons, along with a very nice overall rounded feel to the theme, much like the Palm Pre device offers. The navigation of the theme is rather basic, with a simple bottom dock with 5 user defined icons, which replicates the actual device rather nicely. The menus are very easy to read with a great color combination to add a very unique look to this theme. This theme is available for your 83xx and 88xx BlackBerry devices running OS 4.5 only, so sadly only those that are still holding on to older device can get in on this one. If you enjoy to theme your BlackBerry as another device, this theme is something you will want to check out.

Contest: We have 50 copies of [Pre]defined to give away. Just leave a comment on this post to enter. Contest ends this Sunday at Midnight PST.

• More information and download of [Pre]defined>>

Howdy folks. Hope you're having a great November, and for my American friends I sincerely hope you're having a relaxing Thanksgiving weekend with those most important to you. The end of the month is drawing near, and still we have no snow up here in good 'ol Winterpeg (Winnipeg). If we make it until December I'm going to break out the golf clubs for something so rare in these parts it only happens once every 30 years: December Golf :)

Covered this week in the roundup are the following titles:

In Case You Missed It: SmartSig, Hockey Scores for BlackBerry, Pandora for BlackBerry Updated, Beta eBay App Now Available, Twixtreme Now Available in App World

New This Week: Mini SMS, AppLock, Guitar Chords, First Responders Reference, Stop Turning!

Cool at BlackBerry App World: Cash Cab

Freebie of the Week: CBS Sports Pro Football

Just in case you were not wanting to install the previously leaked version, here is the officially released OS 5.0.0.351 for the BlackBerry Bold 9700. I can say it's a solid OS, as I have been running it for a while now. Download, install and enjoy folks!

• Download The Official OS 5.0.0.351 From The Rogers BlackBerry site >>
• Read Up On The Fixes And Finding Thread In The Forums>>
  
• Instructions: How to Upgrade your BlackBerry's Operating System >>
• Instructions: How to Downgrade your BlackBerry's Operating System >>
• Instructions: Mess things up? Fix a Bricked BlackBerry Here >>

A new BlackBerry desktop manager is now available for download from either the BlackBerry website or through the built in desktop manager updater. Once updated, you'll be sitting at version 5.0.1.28 and from Ronens review of it, it looks like RIM has added some stuff that was previously removed.

Back into play this time is the desktop redirector while support has been added for Windows 7 and new BlackBerry devices such as the BlackBerry Bold 9700 and BlackBerry Storm 2 and new synchronization options allowing you to add new fields to your address book as well improvements to the back up and restore options. If you're running an older version, you'll wanna grab the download and check out what's new.

• More Release Information Is Available Via The RIM Knowledge Base>> 
• Download BlackBerry Desktop Manager Version 5.0.1.28 From The BlackBerry Website>>
  

You know that saying When in Rome?  Well, I'm actually in Rome and going on right now at 7pm local time is the BlackBerry Innovation Awards 2009! The Innovation Awards are held as part of the annual BlackBerry EMEA Alliace Summit, a conference held each year that brings together BlackBerry Alliance partners in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region for a few days of information, networking and fun. The Innovation Awards recognize outstanding applications and innovations from various partners in various enterprise and consumer categories. Watch all the fun live above! I'll be tweeting with photos, so follow the twitter links within the live blog above to see the pics. Once it's all said and done, we'll update this post with some photos below.

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Happy Thanksgiving to the CrackBerry Nation. I'll be off eating my way through the day with my family, and hope you all will be doing the same. Its not often that I have an excuse to eat more than one dinner and double dessert, so I take full advantage of the holiday. If you can handle it, try to put the Berry (or Berry's) away for a bit and spend some time with family and friends. Don't worry - we'll still be here tomorrow when you get back, so a day away from us won't kill you :-)

Bplay is running a great promo on themes and games now through December 1st. Their 7 Days of Deals will feature a different item each day. Each deal will run through the day, and end at 8am when the next deal starts. There are some great items in store, so be sure to check back each day for all the details. To start it off, if you buy Madden NFL 10 today you get the Space Slideshow theme absolutely free! Head over to Bplay now (and for the next 6 days) to check out the goods.

• 7 Days of Deals at Bplay>>

Ronen over at BerryReview spotted the new NY Times BlackBerry application is now available for download for free from their site. Previously the NY Times had only offered a home screen launcher which led to their web site. The new application allows for offline reading, but sadly it's only supported on the BlackBerry Tour, Storm 1, Bold, and Curve 8900 - every other device just gets redirected to NY Times mobile site.

• For More Information And Downloads Head On Over To The NY Times Site>>

When Google first announced their Apps Connector their main focus was to be placed on those companies that were running a BlackBerry Enterprise Server with a couple hundred BlackBerry smartphones attached to it. Google quickly realized that users of all sizes were taking on Apps Connector and found they needed to grow their support sizes to what is now 500 users per BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which is double the previously supported number. Have a look at the features and see if it's a fit for your business.

Overview of features:

• Messages sent to your Gmail inbox are pushed to your BlackBerry within 60 seconds.
• Emails read/deleted on your BlackBerry are marked as read/deleted in Gmail, and vice-versa.
• Synchronize BlackBerry folders with labels in Gmail.
• Search for email addresses and phone numbers of other users on your company domain.
• View your Google Calendar schedule on your native BlackBerry application, with one-way synchronization from Google Calendar to your BlackBerry device.
• Contacts in Gmail are automatically synchronized with your BlackBerry address book
• BlackBerry Professional Software is now supported

Google Apps Connector is great for businesses who are looking to save
some money on their networking cost but it does still fall short in
some areas of PIM function especially when it comes to two-way sync of
calendars. Here's to hoping that Google will see the need and get to
work on that.

• Click Here To Learn More About Google Apps Connector For BlackBerry>>

The sales just keep rolling in, this one comes to us courtesy of R&R Theme Designs. From now up until November 27th, all themes by R&R Theme Designs are on sale for 50% off. No coupon code needed for this one folks, just pick your theme and check out and you're done. Big thanks to Rooster for the sale and giving back to the community!

• Have A Look At The Full Selection From R&R Theme Designs Today>>

Cocky Culture is having a 50% off sale from now up until November 27th. If you been holding off on dressing up your BlackBerry in some new colors now is a great time to do so. Process is simple, just visit the CrackBerry App Store from your mobile device, pick out your theme and when asked for a coupon code be sure to enter - 3d50off- check out and you're done.

• Check Out All Cocky Culture Themes Available Today>>

Elevated Automotive is testing out their new loan & lease calculator app. The application hopes to make buying or leasing a car as easy as can be, and soon to be a complete car buying tool. They have just updated to version 1.5.1, and have 5000 free copies to give away.

The calculator's simple, clean interface allows users to quickly compute their exact car payments using the same information that dealers use to calculate payments in their computer systems. Whether you need to see the difference in your payment based on the length of the loan, you need to see exactly how much that extra down payment will affect the loan, or you just want to see the difference between a loan and a lease, you no longer have to wait for your salesman to go back and forth to his boss to make a decision. 

To check it out, just head over to Elevated Automotive to download the free app.