Football Season begins with a sale!
Sep 11, 2009 Deals, Games, Themes
Thats right! The awesome folks at bPlay have decided to once again put ALL of their NFL themes on sale for the opening weekend of football season. Now you can celebrate the
Pittsburgh Steelers First win of the season with a pretty nice looking theme for your blackberry. For that matter, you can grab ANY of your favorite NFL Team’s themes at a dollar off their regular price now through midnight on Sunday! Why not hop on and grab one.
Oh and if you need something to do on those long commutes, go ahead and pick up a copy of
EA SPORTS Madden NFL 10 and play along side your favorite QB of the NFL. No need for an expensive gaming system when your Blackberry can do it all.
Get ready for SOME FOOTBALL!
Tags: EA Sports, football, Madden, NFL, Pittsburg, Sale, Steelers
Last Chance to SAVE BIG at Handango!
Sep 10, 2009 Deals
Woke up this morning to a note in my inbox from Handango. Today is the last chance to save with their current special.
On orders over $15 you can get 25% off your purchases when you use the code 3daysonly.
Now you have absolutely no reason not to pick up that old school version of Mrs Pacman for your blackberry, android, winmo or Palm device….
Tags: coupon code, Handango, Save
Free Themes for the 82xx, 95xx, 9000, 9630, 8900 and 8520!
Sep 9, 2009 Themes
Wow, it seems like all we do is post FREE themes! Thats because we believe that you shouldn’t have to pay for something as simple as a theme! Here are a handful of FREE themes for several different Blackberry Devices. If you’re a theme developer and you want your theme featured here, let us know!
First up is a theme for the Flip 82xx. Its a Simple Hidden w/ Weather slot theme for OS 4.6.0/4.6.1. It has a hidden dock with focus icons. This theme has a hidden dock with a single icon on the homescreen for a weather app, or whatever else you want to put there. The 6th icon on the app screen goes in this spot. Icons and fonts are user customizable.
You can Grab it OTA Here for 8220 OS 4.6.0 OTA or 8230 OS 4.6.1 OTA
The next theme today is for you OLDER users of the new Tour 9630. The BIG theme is a simple take on an original. Increased the fonts and indicator sizes make this one an easy to view theme for those with failing eye site. The rest is pretty standard stuff….
You can grab it OTA Here
Next, for you Storm 95xx users, we have something for those who have been longing for the look of the Bold/tour on your storm. The BoldTouch Theme is a bold clone for the storm. There are just 5 and 10 icon basic versions as well as versions with hidden today and a slot in the banner. The theme is nice and clean and features the background from the bold thats come to represent everything good in the world 
.
You can grab the 5 Icon OTA, 10 Icon OTA, 5 Icon with Hidden Today and WB OTA, or the 10 Icon with Hidden Today and WB OTA.
Now we have one for the Bold. Animated Raindrops features an animated background (its very subtle, but the animation is there). I wasn’t too impressed with this theme, but those who like animations might like it.
You can grab it OTA
The Voyage theme for the 8900 pretty much speaks for itself. There are 7 fixed homescreen icons: options, media, contacts, messages, blackberry messenger, calendar and profiles. There are also two user defined buttons that turn blue to the left and right of the profiles icon. There is a hidden today area that can be accessed by scrolling up from the messages and calendar tabs. There are also large tabs that appear for missed calls and missed messages. The battery is in the “vent” to the left of the clock and the signal is in the “vent” to the right of the clock.
Its a sick looking theme you can pick up: OTA
We’ll end today with one for the 8520. All I’m going to say about this one is Calvin and Hobbes
Tags: 82xx, 8520, 8900, 9000, 95xx, 9630, Blackberry, calvin and hobbes, Themes
bPlay Labor Day Blow out Sale on iberry, NFL themes!
Sep 3, 2009 Themes
Guess what? Its time for another AWESOME sale from bPlay. This one runs through Monday night and has some awesome deals. In honor of the new iBerry Edge theme, they’ve slashed the price on all the iBerry themes by $2.00 this weekend, so you can get the awesome iBerry 2.0 Theme for $5.99 and any of the other iBerry themes as well.
As if that wasn’t enough, they’ve marked down a handful of puzzle and card games to 99 cents and they’ve gone and put all the NFL themes on sale for $1.00 off so now you can show your support of number 7 and the
Philadelphia Eaglesfor only $4.99.
Make sure to check out the rest of the NFL Themes at bPlay today!
Now available, Commuter Series for BB Bold
Sep 3, 2009 Accessories
Got a note via twitter from Otterbox this afternoon that the much awaited and anticipated Commuter Series for BB Bold
.
This new case takes the best that the defender series has to offer and pairs it together with the best that the impact series has to offer. The result is an amazingly skin tight fit on your bold that hugs the device and keeps it safe. With exposed silicone corners that dissipate impact away from the device for additional bump and shock protection and the smooth outer layer that allows the case to easily slide into your pocket or purse, this case is one of the best protections possible for your bold.
The Commuter Series includes Self-adhering clear protective film, microfiber cleaning cloth and installation card for the bold as well so you get screen protection too. You can snag a Commuter Series for BB Boldtoday at Otterbox for only $39.99, but really, protecting your baby is worth it.
Tags: Blackberry, commuter, otterbox, protection, skin
Blackberry DM for Mac LEAKED!
Sep 3, 2009 Apps
Those of us (un)fortunate enough to be on a Mac and using one of the world’s best smartphones have been unable to use the desktop manager from Rim due to its “windows only” status. Until now. A beta of the DM for Mac has been leaked to the fringes of the web and has made its way to several of the larger download sites.
So far, general opinion is that this totally rocks and it works good, but we want to issue a word of caution: Remember Its A BETA product still and may act as such. Don’t blame us or RIM if you screw up your mac or Blackberry.
- Download BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac (from megaupload)>>
- Download BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac (from rapidshare) >>
- Download BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac (from sendspace) >>
Tags: Beta, Blackberry, Desktop Manager, mac
FREE Precision Weather Zen and Hidden Today for the 9630!
Sep 2, 2009 Themes
This is one that the BOLD users have been loving on for a while now, and luckily, Yester18 was able to get Shao128 to port it to the 9630.
Its a Simple bold conversion to the Tour but the top Icon was tweaked a bit. It’s simple but yet with something a little more personal. The images are using Berry weather, but any weather app will work….. and Berry weather is set to none for temp and condition on home screen in the app settings.
Tags: 9630, Blackberry, today plus, Tour, zen
Free themes for the 95xx, 9000 and 87xx!!
Sep 2, 2009 Themes
In a rare showing today, the first FREE theme I want to share with you is one for you 87xx sportin Foosball Lovers out there. If you’re a Cowboys Fan (and come on, who isn’t a fan of “america’s team” besides almost everyone outside of Texas) this theme is right up your alley. The Dallas Cowboys Theme by Xtrme XJ is here and working on 87xx devices. Its a pretty basic theme that speaks for itself. If you’re a fan, you can grab it OTA.
As with all theme installs, please make sure to do a Battery Pull or hard reboot if you can.
Up next and perhaps inspired by the news of the Disney/Marvel wedding, we have a happy little Mickey Mouse theme for the Blackberry Bold from Daniel Black. The theme features some customized icons as well as backgrounds for almost every screen. Its a little on the sweet and gooey side for me, but you Mickey Fans might love it. Its a very Disney theme with customizable home screen icons. You can grab it OTA from MobiMadness!.
Last for now, we have one for the Storm (95xx). Transformers Theme by tcaemt734. The cool thing about this theme is the icon’s. The icons transformer into their respective robot forms with red and purple for the lettering. Pretty old school. Don’t you think?
You can grab it OTA Here.
if you’re a theme designer and you’d like us to mention your theme, drop us a note at tips@blackberryhack.com or on twitter at blackberryhack!
Tags: 8700, 87xx, 9000, 9500, 9530, Blackberry, Bold, dallas cowboys, mickey mouse, Storm, Themes, transformers
Go BabyGO!
If you’re like me, your three year old’s favorite thing to do is grab daddy’s blackberry and start pressing as many buttons as possible before you’re able to wrestle the device out of their little cheerio encrusted hands. Right? (please tell me its not just me!)
I fixed this on the computer by downloading a little gem called Maddie that essentially locks out the keyboard (unless you know the secret word) and lets them type whatever they want while trying to teach them letters. I don’t know how good of a teaching tool it is, but G would play with it for a while before she became bored, so it works. Thankfully, someone has decided to come up with the same for the blackberry.
Enter BabyGo by zeebu. The program is simple really. Instead of locking the keyboard to everything, it locks it so that all you can do is type letters. As a letter is pressed, the letter block appears on the screen and an appealing voice says it out loud. I downloaded it the other day and my 3 year old, Em had fun with it for half an hour. Which is good. Plus, it locks her out of doing everything else…
If you’re interested in trying out this FREE app, hit their site to find out more and download it. They do have a “pro” version in the works thats going to offer more for the older monsters.
Tags: Baby, Blackberry, Keyboard, Lock
