Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerrys. Twitter. Free mobile applications. These are a few of my favorite things. What’s even better? Why, a combination of all three, of course. That’s exactly what you get in TwitterBerry, a free mobile Twitter client for BlackBerry from Orangatame Software. TwitterBerry’s not new—in fact, we’ve reviewed, demonstrated and recommended the software on various occasions—but today, a new beta version of the app hit the Web, TwitterBerry 0.7 beta 4. The latest tweaks and modifications address a number of my long-standing complaints and add some truly valuable features. I was appropriately notified of this new beta release via Twitter, after communicating earlier this week with Jason Schroeder, a TwitterBerry developer. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe TwitterBerry Friends Timeline MenuIncluded in the release are two changes in particular that will surely make TwitterBerry easier to use and more efficient. First of all, the new software lets you refresh the Friends Timeline, your personal timeline, replies and direct messages without ever leaving those individual screens. In previous versions of TwitterBerry, users had to return to the application’s home screen to refresh any timelines. The new modification makes it quicker and easier to fetch new tweets or messages. Secondly, Orangatame has added the ability to set TwitterBerry notification alerts. So, for instance, users can set their BlackBerry LED indicators to flash red whenever their Friends tweet or new Twitter direct messages land in their inboxes. Vibration alerts and custom tones can also be enabled by tweaking the application’s BlackBerry Profile settings. (To modify TwitterBerry Profile settings, click the Profiles icon your BlackBerry home screen, scroll down and select Advanced. Then highlight the active profile, hit your BlackBerry Menu key and choose Edit. Finally, you should scroll down and click either TwitterBerry Direct Messages or TwitterBerry Friends Timeline, click the trackball and make whatever changes you desire. TwitterBerry Profiles Direct Messages PageI haven’t spent more than an hour or so with the new TwitterBerry app, but so far the experience has been a positive one. However, the software is still a beta release and isn’t perfect. For instance, I can’t seem to access the Twitter Public Timeline—the app just tells me it’s loading. According to Orangatame, additional new TwitterBerry features include: Polling support, accessible from the Options menu (I couldn’t find any Options menu…)Cache more tweets. Caching up to 200 of the latest tweets in your friends timeline, replies timeline, and direct messages.Reload timelines from the screen, without opening and closingImproved network requests, only loading new tweets since last requestMultiple bug fixesTwitPic support. Look for the ‘Send to TwitPic’ menu in the Media application when viewing images. (I also didn’t see any such menu option in my BlackBerry Media app…) The beta application’s available for any BlackBerry device running handheld operating system v4.1.0 and higher. And Orangatame is welcoming feedback.AS FREE CIO BlackBerry NewsletterGet better use out of your BlackBerry and keep up-to-date on the latest developments. Sign-up ť Related content brandpost Four Leadership Motions make leading transformative work easier The Four Leadership Motions can be extremely beneficial —they don’t just drive results among software developers, they help people make extraordinary progress wherever they lead. By Jason Fraser, Director, Product Management & Design, VMware Tanzu Labs, Public Sector Sep 21, 2023 5 mins IT Leadership feature The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far In 2022, the big AI story was the technology emerging from research labs and proofs-of-concept, to it being deployed throughout enterprises to get business value. This year started out about the same, with slightly better ML algorithms and improved d By Maria Korolov Sep 21, 2023 16 mins Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence opinion 6 deadly sins of enterprise architecture EA is a complex endeavor made all the more challenging by the mistakes we enterprise architects can’t help but keep making — all in an honest effort to keep the enterprise humming. By Peter Wayner Sep 21, 2023 9 mins Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy Software Development opinion CIOs worry about Gen AI – for all the right reasons Generative AI is poised to be the most consequential information technology of the decade. Plenty of promise. But expect novel new challenges to your enterprise data platform. By Mike Feibus Sep 20, 2023 7 mins CIO Generative AI Artificial Intelligence Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe