and TwitterBerry (or TweetDeck) would never release a new version without letting you re-install the previous version of the software like some other companies *cough* RIM* cough*Facebook*cough*

;)

Two of my friends have recently joined the CrackBerry train... so I thought I would give a run down of my favorite must have applications for your BlackBerry...


1)TwitterBerry - If you Tweet... TwitterBerry is a must!

2) Facebook for BlackBerry... this speaks for itself :P

3)Viigo - this is basically an RSS reader... you can subscribe to various channels ( I use it to kill time on the train... and to get my daily horoscope)

4) WeatherEye -- Like WeatherBug... for your Berry... the icon changes based on the the current weather... it could be a big sun, moon, cloud, rain, snow.... its awesome!

5)Flickr uploader - if you have a camera on your BlackBerry and a Flickr account, this is a must

6)MapQuest Mobile - Need a portable navigation system? This is your answer...

Ok.... so after I got my BlackBerry (another addiction!) back in December a co-worker asked me if I heard of TwitterBerry. I replied no, and he went on to explain it (and the Twitter concept). Seemed pretty pointless to me.

Fast forward to earlier this summer (maybe July). I am not sure how I happened to go back to Twitter, but I ended up signing up. And adding TwitterBerry to my BlackBerry. The addiction started slowly. I would tweet in the morning while waiting for the train, before going to lunch, and then when I was headed home.

Then I setup TwitterFeed to feed my blog posts to Twitter. Then I added TwitterFox to Firefox. I tried Twhirl as a desktop client for my MacBook Pro, but didn't really like it. Then I tried Twitterific, and wasn't really happy with that.

Then I stumbled upon... TweekDeck. It took me a bit to get used to the multiple columns visible at once... but now I love it... especially sinced I found TwitScoop... whcih is a big tag cloud of the most popular topics buzzing on Twitter...

this is a full view... and the TwitScoop is from WHen it was announced that Paul Newman died.



This is the TwitScoop form when Wachovia was bought by Citi...



So now I have this visible on my desktop for most of the day at work.... so I can knwo what's happening... sometimes even before I get my CNN alert!!