PlayStation Emulator Ported to the PlayBook (PCSX-ReARMed-PB)
I have to give a big shout out to Catalystg for releasing a Playstation emulator for the BlackBerry PlayBook. The PCSX-ReARMed-PB lets you play (legal!) Playstation v1 games on your PlayBook. There are a few incompatibilities that users are running into but Catalystg has a great thread going on CrackBerry forums about the release….
Free Tomb Escape Mimics Temple Run Gameplay on BlackBerry 7 Devices!
You may have noticed iOS users addicted to the game Temple Run recently. SolverLabs has decided to capitalize on that success by releasing a very similar 3D game called Tomb Escape that runs on some BlackBerry 7 devices. My guess is it needs the latest BlackBerry 7 devices for the 3D graphics and tilting…
Free Advanced OS & LED Utility v12 Released with Contacts Manager & More
One of our favorite free BlackBerry utilities just got a nice update to v12.0.3 this weekend. We have mentioned the app a few times and it keeps on getting better thanks to Sultan Al Sooz and the price remains totally free. This updates main new feature is a Contacts Manager that allows you to…
Free MagicBerry v3.5 Adds Support for Reading .BBB BlackBerry Backup Files
MagicBerry has long been the best tool for parsing and reading BlackBerry backup files. The problem is when RIM started moving from .IPD files to .BBB files they could no longer be opened with MagicBerry. Now it seems like MagicBerry’s developer, Ashraf M. Awwad, has reverse engineered the .BBB format and we are back in…
Free Tarot Card Reader App Promises to Help Solve Your Problems
I have never really been that interested in Tarot cards but they are relatively popular. SRID Games is capitalizing on that with their Free Tarot Card Reader app in App World. The app includes all the 78 cards and four major spreads that should hopefully help solve your problem with one click. Hell it might…
BBM Music 1.2.0.17 & BlackBerry Travel 2.5.18.99 Released
RIM has updated two more of their apps in App World this week. The first to take the plunge is BBM Music which has been updated to v1.2.0.17. You can now see more about new friends who invite you before accepting or declining an invitation. The updated version also adds the ability to favorite a…
Free Wikipedia PlayBook App Now in App World
We told you before that one of RIM’s employees, @gordtanner, that came from their TinyHippos acquisition was working on a Wikipedia app. Specifically he was porting their HTML5 open source app to work on the PlayBook through PhoneGap. Now that app is officially in App World directly from the Wikimedia Foundation and is totally free….
Kayak.com Releases PlayBook Travel Search App (Android Port)
It seems like RIM is using the Android player in PlayBook OS 2.0 to bring some companies to the BlackBerry 10 platform. Kayak stopped developing their BlackBerry smartphone app but now @AlexKinsella at RIM pointed out that Kayak has ported their Android app to the PlayBook. The app is definitely not a native app but…