Yesterday we let you know about the Animated Avatar application for BBM which brought all animated avatars in an easy user interface.  Some suggest an app is useless when you can go to a mobile site and download them that way, while others prefer applications for everything.  The choice is yours! Either way, the Animated Avatar for BBM app has updated to version 1.2 adding easier navigation to the app, a refresh/update button so you can see if new avatars have been uploaded, and general bug fixes.

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We heard rumors on a convertible case with a built in keyboard and trackpad launching for the BlackBerry PlayBook.  Unfortunately time has gone by and we haven’t heard any official announcements from RIM.  BerryReview got some slides detailing the keyboard and it’s looking sweet.  Here are some highlighted features:

• Both a keyboard and a touchpad
• Can last up to 30 days on a charge
• Comes with a case that folds over your PlayBook
• Multitouch touchpad with one finger left click and two finger right click (for remote desktop apps)
• Mouse scrolling with two fingers on the touchpad
• Charges via MicroUSB

More slide images after the jump!

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Beat The Intro is a fun game for BlackBerry smartphones where you have to guess the song playing as quick as possible to get a higher score.  You can compete with other BBM friends as well which makes it more interactive.  Best part is it’s free to download!  Click the link below for more info or to download free!

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Wunderlist has landed for BlackBerry smartphones.  It’s a pretty popular application used to sync tasks and basically manage things that need to get done.  The BlackBerry version has an awesome user interface, made easy to use, and supports most models.  Features include:

• Free Wunderlist is completely free for every device
• Cloud sync Your tasks are synced with your free Wunderlist account
• Email reminders  Ensure your tasks never slip your mind
• Mail2Task  Send tasks to Wunderlist from your email inbox
• Organize Sort your tasks into lists
• Due Dates Assign deadlines to your tasks
• Focus View a breakdown of your tasks with our filter views
• Notes Give your tasks further detail
• Prioritize Star important tasks
• Personalize Make Wunderlist your own with our included background wallpapers

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Last month we attended the BBM Ugly Sweater Fan Night which featured BlackBerry enthusiast, developers and bloggers gathered together in ugly Christmas sweaters for drinks, food and BlackBerry devices all over the place.  Former New York Giants football player Michael Strahan came as promised and demoed out Madden 12 for the BlackBerry PlayBook.  Here’s a quick video recap of the event showing some highlights of the fun night!

The folks over at BB-Freaks released a few free themes of BlackBerry 7 smartphones.  Compatible devices include the BlackBerry Curve 9350/9360, Bold 9900/9930, and Torch 9810/9850/9860.  Of course these themes are called “Basic OS 7 Series” so they are fairly basic and good for those who want a slight face lift to the over all user interface.

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Modern Combat 2 Black Pegasus HD for BlackBerry PlayBook had not gone on sale since launch, and some of you were probably waiting for the price to drop a bit before grabbing a copy.  It looks like the game is only sale now (for a limited time we assume) for only 99 cents.  Yes, that’s 6 bucks off.  Gameloft often does sales on their games, but again we never saw it on Modern Combat 2 before.  Click the link below to check out screenshots of the game or to purchase a copy while supplies last.

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Animated avatars for BlackBerry Messenger are in this season.  Ever since the latest update of BBM, we’ve been able to have avatars with animations.  There’s been several discoveries of websites which have animated avatars scaled down to work for BBM.  Animated Avatars is a free application for BlackBerry smartphones which brings all these animated avatars in an easy user interface for you to browse through and download.

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Surely there are remote desktop apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook already, but those all require software to be downloaded on your PC or Mac.  Remote Desktop for BlackBerry PlayBook allows you to access Windows based computers.  All you’ll need is access to Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol which is obviously running on remote desktop services.  Features include:

• 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit color support
• Standard screen resolutions including the BlackBerry PlayBook native 1024×600
• Maintain a list of server with a single tap to connect
• Pinch-to-zoom
• RDP data compression and caching to save bandwidth
• Scroll lock to all for mouse integration for scrolling windows
• Double tap to open files
• Right Click button for context menus
• A menu icon to show the keyboard to ease text input
• Fit larger resolutions to the BlackBerry PlayBook screen to see your whole desktop or quickly switch back to the connected resolution with the tap of a button
• Maintain multiple connections t the same time and jump between them

  Last November, We let you know back in November, about an app for the BlackBerry handhelds called Pencil Camera. Well it looks like Eddy Liu has brought his app to the BlackBerry PlayBook, but it adds more features that you won’t see on the BlackBerry handheld version.

This app offers some great features such as:

• Six different art filters available. (Standard Pencil, Chalk, Colored Pencil, Charcoal, Brushed, Water Paper).
• Take a photo using camera directly within the app.
• Load and convert an existing photo into a work of art.
• Fast photo conversion process.
• Real-time brightness and contrast processing.
• Easily share photos on Facebook
• Simple, intuitive, and “lagless” UI.