This Sunday for the second year in a row I'll be hosting Easter brunch. I'm pretty pumped to have my entire family over to spend the day, but I'm sure at times I'll want to wring some necks. I always try my best to leave my electronics alone (or off) on holidays, but sometimes it's not that easy. We have such a crazy attachment to our devices that trying to be without them for just a day is an impossible task for some. So what we want to know is if you survive without your devices on holidays or it's business as usual. Let us know in the poll above, then hit up the comments!

MMMOOO is back with the cutest animated Christmas theme for your BlackBerry. Aptly named Christmas Lights, this theme features animated lights on your home screen, adorable custom icons, and tons of details that will delight you as only the holiday season can. Available for most BlackBerry smartphones running up to OS6, you can grab Christmas Lights for just $.99 in the CrackBerry store.

We have 25 free copies of Christmas Lights to give away today, courtesy of MMMOOO. Leave a comment below to enter, and we'll choose winners at midnight PST. One entry per person please, and good luck!

More information/screenshots and purchase Christmas Lights

Research In Motion is holding a huge contest starting Monday to make the holiday season Berry merry for a ton of lucky winners. To enter, you must be a US or Canadian citizen, follow @BlackBerry on Twitter, and successfully answer BlackBerry related questions via tweets with the hashtag #BerryHoliday. Every 10th correct answer that follows the rules of entry will win a prize! And the prizes are pretty awesome including BlackBerry PlayBooks, BlackBerry Torch 9850/60s and Bold 9900/30s, PlayBook and BlackBerry cases, t-shirts, bags, beanies and gloves! 

The contest starts December 12th and ends December 22nd, so make sure you head over to the link below and check out the full details and rules, and keep an eye on Twitter for the questions to answer from @BlackBerry! And while you're busy following @BlackBerry, be sure to go ahead and follow @crackberry on twitter too!

Research In Motion's BerryHoliday Contest rules

XIMAD has released a festive update to 3 of their super popular games: Pandas vs Ninjas, Brain Cube, and Bubble Birds. New levels, fun graphics, and great games, what more could you want for the holiday season?

• Pandas vs Ninjas has 50 new levels to play, and you can now choose Christmas or Chinese themes to play. Help the pandas defend their homeland by fighting off the ninja invaders and destroying their camps, all while enjoying the look and feel of the holiday.
• Bubble Birds is easy and fun to play. Simply get as many points as you can by shooting away sets of three and more bubble birds of the same color, all with a winter theme.
• In Brain Cube you roll the cube thru combination of very interesting puzzles and find a way from one level to another. Each level is unique and filled with different obstacles and mazes. This game is also integrated with social media, so you can share your progress with your friends.

As always, the graphics and sounds are fun and gameplay is smooth. Bubble Birds and Brain Cube are compatible with most BlackBerry smartphones up to OS6, and Pandas vs Ninjas includes BlackBerry 7 devices. You can pick these awesome games up FREE in BlackBerry App World at the links below.

More information/download Pandas vs Ninjas
More information/download Bubble Birds
More information/download Brain Cube

It's officially December and the holiday season is upon us. It's time (for most) to start their Christmas shopping and prepping for all that holiday goodness. While decorating your house is great, you don't want to forget about your BlackBerry. Personally, I love having holiday themed wallpapers on my device to get me in the Christmas spirit. For that, RIM has created some special Christmas wallpapers to get you started. There are four great ones to choose from (at mobile.blackberry.com), but if you want a bit more, be sure to check out all of the great holiday wallpapers in our Free Wallpaper Gallery. You can also submit your own if you have some special ones you want to share with the CrackBerry nation!

Check out holiday wallpapers in our free wallpaper gallery

Halloween is right around the corner and we've been showing you some fun things you can do to get your BlackBerry in the spirit. From a photo app to transform your pictures into cool Halloween scenes, to incredible Halloween themes and a fun and spooky soundboard type app for the BlackBerry PlayBook. One of the easiest and probably most popular ways to personalize your BlackBerry is with a ringtone, and CrackBerry has tons of free ones you can choose from, for holidays or any day. Head over to the Ringtone Gallery or the Ringtone Forums at the links below, and head past the break to see a sample of what you can find. Thanks to everyone that contributes to the gallery and the forums!

Find free ringtones in the Ringtone Gallery
Find free ringtones in the CrackBerry forums

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From all of us here at CrackBerry we'd like to wish everyone a happy Independence Day. Take the day off if you can - relax and have some drinks and food with family and friends. Whatever your plans are make sure your BlackBerry is ready to go to the party as well. If you need some apps to help you out today we have you covered - not to worry! Hitting up the golf course for the day? Check out some great golf apps to go along for the ride. From range finders to scoring we've got the goods. Not feeling the heat of the course today? Maybe you'll want to be the best bartender you can and impress your friends. There are loads of great bartending apps for your BlackBerry that will make you an instant mixologist. Perhaps you just want to show off your 4th of July spirit? Trick out your Berry with some great ringtones, patriotic wallpapers or a 4th of July theme and show your colors.

What will you and your BlackBerry be doing today? Will you be grilling up a storm? Hanging out with the family? Checking out some fireworks (what a great way to try out some HD video recording on the PlayBook!) Leave a comment and let us know what your holiday plans are. Happy 4th!

Howdy and welcome to the weekly app roundup! We’ve corralled some apps we reckon you folks want to take a gander at. So how did everyone make out? Was a certain, portly gift giver good to you? Just remember that it isn’t all about presents, you greedy varmit. Today, we announce the winners of the Trillian giveaway and also give you the chance to win one of 10 copies of Holidays 2011 Edition! How’s that for timing? Have a rootin’ tootin’ weekend! And a Happy New Year! Giddy up!

Freebies of the Week: Vulkano Player, Oopost, Newegg Mobile

In Case You Missed It: autoTRADER, Ringtone Remix

New This Week: PhotoDial, Cellphone Tracker, GPS Tool Plus

Cool at BlackBerry App World: Navita Sports

Contest: Win one of 10 copies of Holidays 2011 Edition!

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The holidays are officially upon us. The gifts are wrapped (or they should be), the plans have been made and the snow is falling (at least where I live it is). You've decorated your house, busted out the holiday music and tackled the mall, so the only thing left is to deck out your BlackBerry with some holiday media. We have wallpapers, ringtones and themes galore to get you flying into the holiday spirit. We have a fresh CrackBerry Holiday theme for 2010 and RIM has some BlackBerry Holiday themes of their own. We even have some spiked egg nog in the CrackBerry offices too, but we couldn't figure out how to make that available as a download on your BB. So check out the links below and grab up some holiday cheer so your Berry fits in with those pink bunny PJs grandma gave you.

Holiday Media:

Ringtones | Themes

Holiday Wallpapers:

Storm/Torch | 8900, 97xx & 96xx | Bold 9000 | 83xx & 85xx | Style/Pearl 3G | other BBs

if you don't see any new blog posts up for a while, it means we had a VERY good New Year's eve...

Zeebu Mobile has released a new content pack to users this weekend for their popular kids application. BabyGO and SuperBabyGO now have great Christmas activities added to them upon startup. Just wait for the content to download and click on "Christmas" and you are all set.

Zeebu Mobile is also offering a holiday pricing for the SuperBabyGO through BlackBerry App World, previous pricing was set at $5.99, you can now grab SuperBabyGO for only $3.99.

• Learn More About The Applications Via The Zeebu Mobile Website>>

Christmas is almost upon us, which means today is the FINAL DAY to make any BlackBerry accessory purchases from ShopCrackBerry.com and take delivery in time for them to be under the tree or in the stocking for Christmas Morning. In order to take delivery on/by December 24th:

* Orders placed by 4:00pm EST today, Tuesday, December 22nd must use Next Day Air as the method of shipping

Thanks for supporting CrackBerry.com! Happy Holidays!!

A few weeks back I was going to write an article about how Research In Motion never updates their BlackBerry Mobile site with new themes and wallpapers like they once did. As I was thinking of this I also was poking around the BlackBerry website and decided to log into MyBlackBerry and see what was new in there. After logging in I then realized where RIM was hiding all their new wallpapers.

MyBlackBerry has a great selection of wallpapers available for direct download to your device all of which are BlackBerry branded. Most recently they have updated the choice to include a bunch of holiday wallpers to choose from. As well, they have started up a FaceBook wallpaper generator where in you can creat your own wallpapers from your own images. Shame it's tied to FaceBook though, wasn't really wanting to sign up for that so I just used the CrackBerry wallpaper maker. Since you know, I already have a CrackBerry account. :)

• Sign Up For A MyBlackBerry Account Today To Access All The Available Offerings>>