We have covered Textender and FindMeHere on the blogs before, and today on Twitter I noticed a little bit of news that might be of interest to our readers. Both of these applications are now free until August 3rd.

Textender is a straightforward utility app that allows the expansion of SMS messages beyond 160 characters. Integration throughout the system menus allows you to access it from almost anywhere, and multiple numbers for each contact are supported as well. If you are constantly frustrated by only being able to send 160 characters at a time, pick it up now for no charge.

FindMeHere is an interesting little app that takes your current GPS location and provides the Google Maps link, allowing you to easily send your current location to your friends via a number of options, including Twitter. I use it constantly for sending clients a map to my office location, quickly and conveniently.

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While at CES I had a chance to hang out with Jason from berrycodes.net, creator of the popular app Textender. He explained that he had an update that was soon to be released, and generously offered to give away some copies to the CrackBerry Nation. If you have not heard of Textender, it is an app that allows CDMA users to send text messages longer than 140 characters. New features in version 1.5 include:

• OS 5 compatibility
• Now able to select from multiple phone numbers for a contact
• Outgoing SMS are now marked with a message count i.e. 1/3, 2/3, 3/3
• Textender is now in the system menu, allowing quick access from almost anywhere

Textender is on sale for $1.49 until January 31st, and compatible with devices running OS 4.5 and higher.

Contest: We have 50 copies of Textender to give away. Just leave a comment on this post to enter. Contest ends this Sunday at Midnight PST. Please only leave one comment, multiple entries wont count.

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