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If only I had heard about this application a week earlier, it would have been perfect timing. Former Cardinals and A’s slugger Mark McGwire came forward and admitted using steroids throughout his baseball career, breaking a five-year silence. It wasn’t a revelation or anything; everyone assumed that Big Mac was on the juice. Ballplayers took, and probably continue to take, steroids because they help them stay on the field longer and hit the ball harder. So what if you could install something on your BlackBerry that would make it run faster and use less memory? That’s what BerryJoose does. Thankfully, using it won’t get you the negative attention McGwire received last week.

As Brett at BlackBerryOS notes, many applications advertise this kind of efficiency, but few deliver. But, after giving it a try — he on the Storm 2, me on the Tour — it’s pretty clear that BerryJoose works as advertised. It helps limit memory leaks and otherwise keeps your BlackBerry running in optimal shape — like the day you bought it, before you installed all those third party applications.

Once you run BerryJoose, it remains active in the background, humming along while it optimizes your BlackBerry performance. Sorry to repeat the buzz word optimize, but it’s tough to describe it any other way. It ensures that you have the most available RAM and Flash memory possible, which allows your BlackBerry to run at peak capacity. In other words, optimally.

BerryJoose normally runs $9.95, but from now through January 24 you can get BerryJoose for just $4.99.

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