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AffinityBlue has just released their award winning music applications to BlackBerry PlayBook. NodeBeat is a visual and musical joyride that stimulates both sound and sight. I’ve never seen anything like it before.

NodeBeat boasts compatibility with people of all ages! “The intuitive and fun visual music app for all ages. Whether your 2 or 92, NodeBeat will make you sound like a pro.” - nodebeat.com
Features:
General
° Friendly, Intuitive and Easy to Use
° Record and Save Creations
° Drum and Octave Generators
° Preset Layouts to Help Get You Started
° Sleep Timer for Falling Asleep to NodeBeat
Audio and Rhythm
° 20 Musical Scales
° All 12 Musical Keys Signatures
° 7 Octave Range
° Multitouch Background Keyboard/Piano
° Audio WaveformAdjustment (Sine, Triangle, Sawtooth, Square)
° Creative Sound Sculpting (Echo, Attack, Decay, Release)
° Adjustable Tempo (BPM) and Note Beat
It was just yesterday that I was asking AngryBirds on Twitter when we might see the update for ..Space. Now it seems they may actually be bringing all the updates to our beloved PlayBook beginning with Angry Birds Rio .

We’re not sure exactly what this update entails. But it appears to have new levels. The kiddos whipped through what seemed to be most of the levels on the first 3 games again the other day. Let us know what you find or what we may have missed!
What are you waiting for? Go grab your update or pick up Angry Birds Rio for $4.99 below now!
Source: N4BB
Update/Purchase Angry Birds Rio for BlackBerry PlayBook here
A great friend and phenomenal developer Cocky Culture let us know his popular game Pocket Ninjas will finally be coming to BlackBerry PlayBook. Pocket Ninjas is a non-stop hack & slash filled with oodles of baddies, shurikens, upgradable weapons and more!
Check out the Full Description here:
The most ninja action possible……..without having to go to the trouble of actually being a ninja.
Swipe your finger across the screen to hack and slash your enemies while dodging shurikens, ditching Geisha, and ducking bad Sushi!
You can climb to the top of the leader board by slicing and dicing through waves and waves of intruders and collecting points with the tip of your sword!
Customize your Pocket Ninja with new looks, weapons, and abilities!
Will Robertson of Many Notes fame is back with another clever application. And I’m loving it! Compose Mail for BlackBerry PlayBook is a FREE application that allows users to quickly compose an email using portrait or landscape and launch it right inside the 2.0 PIM Messages app.

Compose Mail is absolutely FREE with nothing else to buy or upgrade. The idea is similar to the native Compose app in BlackBerry smartphones.
Features:
° Compose email in Portrait or Landscape
° Integration with the native Messages App
° Automatic copy-to-clipboard
° Copy & Paste
° Launches faster than Messages
° Matches style of the 2.0 Messages, Contacts, and Calendar apps
Well first they teased us. Then we all assumed it would released by the following day.. no? ..Friday.. No.. How about a Tuesday, April the 24th for Angry Birds Space to hit the BlackBerry PlayBook? Okay that’s the day. Today we can finally enjoy some Space Birds.

Angry Birds Space is an awesome multiplatform game that needs no introduction. Rovio Entertainment has proven once again that they’re clearly having a blast making these games. If you don’t mind spending a few bucks on a game that will challenge you, make you laugh and make you think, then hit the link below and blast to space!
Pick up Angry Birds Space from your PlayBook here
Taking a screenshot with your BlackBerry or PlayBook has become one of the most popular functions over the past few years. And one app has maintained an almost native name with BlackBerry smartphones. That name is Screen Muncher. But how is the app, and which version do I want?

There’s not just one or two versions of Screen Muncher in App World and sure there’s plenty of different applications that will get the job done. But there’s something about Muncher that attracts me..
While the original release of BeWeather HD received a lukewarm response, the latest update has some significant visual changes, performance enhancements and more. We recently reached out to Bellshare for a list of changes. See the full changelog below.

BeWeather HD v1.2.17 updates:
***Please make sure you have upgraded to Tablet OS 2.0.1***
° Added support for portrait orientation
° Added hourly forecast graph
° Reorganized map viewer/selection
° Improvved weather animation quality
° Stability and performance enhancements
°°Choose ‘Continue Reading’ for full list of features
Get ready to grip your PlayBook tight! PewPew 2 by Jean-François Geyelin is now available and it’s like dropping liquid adrenaline into your eyeballs. Fireworks of fun. An almost illegal addiction. I can’t put this game down.

PewPew 2 follows the also muliplatform first title PewPew which is still FREE & received an average of 4 and half stars from 800+ PlayBook users.
Doing a casual scan through the new games & apps last night and I fell upon this clever Control Tower game for PlayBook that reminded me of a very popular iOS game I used to spend hours enjoying back a few years ago.
![Control Tower for BlackBerry PlayBook [made with Marmalade] by Bojan Skaljac](http://www.berryfication.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_00001423-e1334734063129.jpg)
Control Tower comes in a FREE & Paid version. Compatible with PlayBook tablet 1.0 & up plus it’s made with Marmalade!
FEATURES
° Classic game mode with 6 different planes and helicopters
° Online highscores
° Achievements (6)
° Countless hours of addictive gameplay
° #1 Playbook air traffic controller game
One of the best photo editing applications & one of my very favorites Photo Studio has just updated to include many new features including an open door to their API for 3rd party developers. That’s pretty darn cool if you ask me.

Photo Studio & Photo Studio PRO are available for BlackBerry smartphones running OS 5.0 t0 7.1. There’s a free version and of course the full PRO version for those of you who like to enjoy the works!
Photo Studio for BB v.0.9.8.27 in this update:
° BBM Integration for Picframes
° Add your favorite effects and frames to ‘Favorite’ category to get fast access
° Zoom In/Zoom Out mode for Picframes editor
° 23 New templates in Picframes
° UI improvements
Information for developers:
° Photo Studio opens API for 3rd-party developers. Now you can integrate Photo Studio into your BlackBerry app.
Sometimes we find a gem in BlackBerry App World and we just want to share our excitement with our readers. The latest app to fall under that category for me is called luko Frame for BlackBerry Playbook by developer luko.

luko Frame is an elegant digital music frame for tablet OS 1.0.8 or up. Set up is simple and they offer 2 versions: one paid at just $0.99, one FREE 3 day trial.
Main features:
° handy music player
° ability to view your pictures as a slideshow with nice and smooth transitions
° editable playlists for slideshow and music player (with possibility to remove single file or all files from playlist / add single file or all files from folder to playlist
° using built-in file browser)
° sorting options for playlist (sort items in your playlist by time added, folder/file name or random)
° repeat audio playlist option
° ability to prevent playbook from falling into standby / backlight dimming mode (handy when slideshow mode is active)
° nice looking clock
Supported audio formats:
° mp3
° aac
° wav
° wma
° m4a
Supported image formats:
° jpg
° png
° gif
It was just a few hours ago that I was talking about Blaq for BlackBerry PlayBook in THE HEAVY ROTATION. And now the latest version has fallen into our laps. But not without a lot of testing, blood, sweat & tears.

Blaq for BlackBerry PlayBook is now v1.7.2. There’s a couple new features and plenty of necessary bug fixes.
Here’s what’s new:
- Clicking on a tweet in a conversation or tweets list for users opens the tweet in the tweet card
- Clicking on a user in followers or following opens the user’s profile
And here are some bug fixes:
- Retweet failures
- Search results are sometimes not tappable
- Search view not rendered properly switching from portrait to landscape
- Avatars in swipe-down menu are larger than intended
- Links within DMs are no longer clickable
- Tweet card showing under search list
- Mini-browser appears above options
- T.co links in search
- Tweet card options menu shows behind tweet card in search
- Minor bug fixes




