RIM is pleased to announce an update for Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones. Available today in BlackBerry Beta Zone is Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones v2.1.

Twitter updates include:

-       Additional Profile Functions – The ‘My Profile’ will have two new icons: Edit Profile and Switch Accounts. Now users can use the Edit Profile icon right from the Profile screen to change a picture or update personal information.

-       Multi-Account Support - The new Multiple Account Support feature allows users to have up to five accounts on their Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones app. When logged into multiple accounts, the current user name will appear in the upper-left corner of the header bar and the user picture will appear in the My Profile icon. Users can switch between accounts by using the Switch Account function, accessible from My Profile or via the Menu. Users can also cross-post Tweets and Retweets from one account to another without switching the current account view.

You look at the two comparisons here of the 9980 and 9900 and you may either love the design of the 9980 or hate it.  I would love to hear your thoughts below.

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The BlackBerry®  PlayBook is the hottest thing to hit the tablet market in a long time and in that trend Bridged is the hottest BlackBerry®  Theme available anywhere.  This innovative design gives you the best features of the PlayBook along with some unique features that pack an unbelievable punch.  It only takes a few flicks across the trackpad to swap between a classy minimal look to one that shows most if not all of your installed applications.  You’d have to be crazy not to want this theme on your BlackBerry®.  GRAB IT HERE

Features:

• 5 PlayBook Style windows, applications are user defined. The picture in the window is user defined via image on the SD card.
• 16 icon animated dock
• All items can be hidden making it extremely wallpaper friendly
• Hand coded SVG, so it is fast and lag free.

Hotkeys:

• (F) Profiles
• (0) SMS and MMS
• (alt + w) Pictures
• (alt + e) Music
• (alt + r) Videos
• (alt + s) Twitter for BlackBerry
• (alt + d) Facebook
• (alt + f) Youtube
• (alt + z) Setup Wifi
• (alt + x) Ringtones
• (alt + c) Manage Connections

Currently supports the 8900, 9500, 9630, 9650, 9700, and 9780

New IWidget Pink & WeatherEye on BlackBerry screen!

    Entertain yourself from a wide variety of themes in your BlackBerry screen. Magmic, a world-leading developer of games, ringtones, applications and themes, comes up with a free trial IWidgets theme for your smartphone.  When you scroll up or click your wallpaper, it reveals a set of calendar, message and now weather updates. The latter feature is an integration from a different application called WeatherEye application, another but also free to download from BlackBerry® App World™, therefore it is another requirement for you to fully view weather updates on your iWidget theme.

    With the WeatherEye integration, you can get detailed weather conditions or short or hourly term forecast; severe weather alerts for US and Canada, Sat/ Radar maps; data in Celsius/ Farenheit, Metric or Imperial; and City auto-locate by GPS coordinates that you can set to home as screen icon ( for OS 6 only and Saved City). This is really a reliable source, wherever you are, thanks to the Weather Network who provides this application.

    There is a newly released today, July 19th, a new clean classic and feminine (with the pink color and flower design) theme from Magmic, the IWidget Pink here (version 1.0.0). You can buy it from the BlackBerry® App World™ for US$4.99 USD, and this application supports OS 6.

Here is a great looking theme by Jake over at Vision Mobility.

This theme is a very basic layout and is designed that way intentionally, with a download that’s just over 500 kb it won’t use up much of the limited application memory on the 9700&#8242;s that have been upgraded to BlackBerry 6.

aTextual BlackBerry 6 Features:

Transparent menus and dialog boxes
6 user designated bottom dock icons

Grab this theme here.

Download BlackBerry PlayBook wallpaper here

We are pleased to announce the gold release of BlackBerry® Theme Studio 6, and want to thank all of the developers who helped improve the product by providing feedback from the beta releases.

If you haven’t been using our beta, here’s an overview of some of the new features:

• Support for the latest BlackBerry devices, including the BlackBerry® Torch™ 9800 and BlackBerry® Style™ 9670 handsets, and BlackBerry® 6.
• Support for theming BlackBerry 6 features such as graphic popup menus, plus the addition of BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™), Facebook®, and Twitter® feeds to Today screens.
• New productivity features allow you to batch update all of the graphics in a theme automatically. You can also change fonts across multiple phone screens automatically. Also, BlackBerry Theme Studio continues to be compatible with popular graphic design tools such as Adobe Photoshop® and Corel® Paint Shop Pro.
• A Background Wizard makes it easy to add dynamic wallpapers to your theme. Options include date-based or time-based changes (to highlight a special holiday or change images by the time of day), and slideshow backgrounds (to cycle through your favorite photos).
• A new user interface lets you click on any item on the preview and directly edit its settings. This allows faster editing and a shorter learning curve, plus you can select multiple items to change them all at once.
• A new export option makes it easier to offer themes through BlackBerry App World™. The export packages all of the correct files and settings into a single zip file, ready for upload to BlackBerry App World.

You’ll find BlackBerry Theme Studio 6 to be easy-to-use, yet a powerful tool for designing compelling themes with unique graphics, animations, sound effects, applications and navigation. The new release can be downloaded here.

via BlackBerry Dev Blog

Check out this cute BlackBerry Torch theme by Themes4bb member Luckygal77. I'm loving the Disney Tinkerbell look.

It's free and available for all here.