Blackberry Backlight Utility - I often have problems keeping my back light on when I'm waiting for an email to arrive or when I'm reading an e-book. I know I can always jog the wheel up and down but its just a pain to do it when you just want focus your attention on something important.
Here is a simple utility that keeps your backlight on until you want to turn it off
UpCode includes an optical reader that uses mobile phones/devices to add any electronic information or system to printed products and to electronic information on screens
Task Switcher -This application setups a hot key ( ALT-ESCAPE on 957 and ALT-BACKSPACE on 950 ) that can be used to invoke the built in RIM task switcher at any time. The hot key invokes the same switcher that pressing ALT-CAP-S invokes but is easier to access than pressing the three key sequence