OSX Mountain Lion Finder slowly dies, system becomes unresponsive - restart required to

I have a MacBookPro retina and it was working fine for months but all of a sudden its now started to fall apart every few hours.  I use my computer daily for work and when i first boot up everything runs well but over time, say 2 hrs, i notice that screenshots take ages to appear on my desktop and then finder doesnt open and even new web pages or new applications do not load.  I try restarting finder, but that doesnt help forcing me to restart my computer, which i sometimes need to force restart as it hangs on the grey screen.
Things I have tried that have not worked
- re-installing Lion
- removing the 'All my files' bookmark from finder
- uninstalled air display (which registered some 3rd party kernels)
I have noticed that my mac never finds my backup timecapsule, so i will try turning off timemachine entirely.
Help!!!
p.s. I kinda miss my 2009 Macbook pro with Snow Leopard, still going strong and has had a fraction of the issues i have experienced with my new retina and OSX lion combo.

After removing the BlackBerry software using AppCleaner and following the steps http://thetipsguy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/rimalbumartdaemon-is-using-all-of-my.ht ml here to remove the daemon my computer has returned to normal - its been up and running without issue for a couple of days now. 
Checking the logs more closly has really paid off. :-)

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