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On Saturday I escape the grind and head down for a week’s beach vacation. I’ll miss you guys at BBGeeks, for sure. But it’s just a week; we’ll be rocking again on Tuesday the 29th. Traveling, of course, means my BlackBerry becomes an even more useful tool. To make sure I’m covered I’ve invested in a select few BlackBerry accessories. The best part: it’s going to cost me just $20.

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Sometimes you just want a distraction. We say it pretty much any time we write about BlackBerry games. While your BlackBerry smartphone is first and foremost a professional device, it also has plenty of recreational uses. In fact, there seem to be more and more games popping up on the platform. RIM understands that games are important to their users, and they’ve helped accommodate that market. Their latest deal brings you 42 games from Gameloft for just 99 cents each. This covers some PlayBook games as well as BlackBerry smartphone games.

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All told, navigating your BlackBerry messages is pretty easy. RIM made it that way, of course, because messaging is the most important part of its platform. With just a few clicks you can get to pretty much any message screen, from any other screen. Yet sometimes we yearn for even more convenience. Again, RIM has obliged. They’ve built a few quick keystrokes into the Messages app that will bring you to various message lists. You don’t ever need to leave the messages app. Just use these keystrokes, with the Escape key, to find your way around.

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We’re about a month into the baseball season, and things are getting weird. The Baltimore Orioles, predicted by consensus to finish last in the AL East, sit on top. The Red Sox, one of baseball’s powerhouses, sit in last place. Josh Hamilton and Matt Kemp are hitting at torrid paces. If you don’t follow baseball you probably don’t know what I’m talking about. But if you do, perhaps you just got a little excited thinking about it. The 2012 baseball season promises to be an exciting one, and if the first month is any indication we’re in for a treat this year. What better way to follow the season, then, than with ScoreMobile for your BlackBerry device?

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This week RIM made a quick announcement for the BlackBerry Curve 9320. It seems odd for RIM to announce a new BlackBerry 7 device right after its big BlackBerry 10 event. Of course, there are many issues at play here, and they mostly look beyond the North American smartphone user. But the 9320 release did make me think: are people going to wait for BlackBerry 10?

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A while back, a friend asked me if there was any easy way to convert a BlackBerry Voice Notes file into an MP3. Ugh, I thought. Yes, there are a few ways to do this, but they’re mostly convoluted and might require you to pay for conversion software. (Even Mac users will need QuickTime Pro, not regular QuickTime, for the conversion.) A new app in the BBGeeks Store does require you to pay, but it’s cheaper than most conversion software I’ve seen. As the app name suggests, it converts your Voice Notes AMR files to WAV files. From WAV, you can basically make a copy in any audio format using iTunes.

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Some emails and documents call for time and date stamps. Sure, you could go and type out the time and date; it’s easy enough to look at a clock and calendar and then type in the information. But you don’t need to, since there are quick and dirty text snippets that can insert them for you.

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If you want to turn your BlackBerry Playbook’s camera into a PDF scanner, Handy Scanner has your solution. The app provides a straight forward service. Using the PlayBook camera, or image files already on your PlayBook, you can create PDFs with just a few steps. The app isn’t perfect yet — it’s missing a few features that would make it a must-have. But for those seeking a quick solution, Handy Scanner makes it relatively easy.

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It’s going to be a long few months. This week RIM unveiled the first official details of their BlackBerry 10 platform, and for a day or two all eyes were on them. Investors apparently weren’t impressed, but that’s understandable. Basically, unless RIM had a feature that would brush your teeth and scrub your nether regions, investors weren’t going to be impressed. But observers seemed to take a liking to the new interface that BlackBerry 10 offers. It was enough to get almost any BlackBerry fan excited for the eventual release.

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Normally I reserve the BlackBerry issue posts for Friday. The goal of this blog, after all, is to explore BlackBerry devices, so most of the time that means posts about tips, apps, and accessories. But it’s tough to ignore when the internet is abuzz about a new BlackBerry product — especially when the buzz is mostly positive. Yesterday RIM unveiled a ton of details about BlackBerry 10, and it seemed like quite the coup for them. We’re still a few months away from a consumer device, but RIM did provide developers with a device, the BlackBerry 10 Alpha Dev, which will let them get a head start on app development. The whole endeavor looks quite promising.

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