And yet another, brand-new Bluebird Theme: Plain.

It’s simple.

It’s light.

It’s Plain!

Download plain.bbtheme

UPDATE: Plain v2!
… just as requested.

Plain v2

Download: plain-v2.bbtheme

Indie Bluebird Theme

Indie-Compact Bluebird Theme

Indie-Mini Bluebird Theme

Three brand-new Themes for Bluebird: Indie, Indie-Compact & Indie-Mini.

Themes were inspired by the Indie Labs.

Download the Indie-Collection!

Simplifique

Yay! Yet another excitingly fresh Theme for the best, free Twitter-Client available for Mac OS X: Bluebird.

“Simplifique” is a very aquaish theme that makes use of WebKit’s features to draw CSS gradients and reflections. Also, Simplifique includes the JavaScript-library written by Na Wong, to convert TwitPic and YouTube URLs to thumbnails.

I hope you like this brand-new theme for Bluebird!

Enjoy.

Download simplifique.bbtheme.zip

Sleek Bluebird Theme

Yay! Yet another cool, new theme for one of best Twitter-clients available on the OS X platform: Bluebird. This time, the theme called Sleek is inspired by 2Smoke’s Silent Night Theme for Bowtie, what’s one of the best Bowtie themes available out there btw.

The theme itself is 100% CSS without any pictures besides the background-image. That one’s the same I’ve also already used within my HUD and HUD-Mini themes. I call this environmental-friendly recycling.

I made use of the cool features Safari already implements, like for example round corners or gradients. It’s just nice to see how much can be done using these features – at this point, the CSS hacks replaced any kind of image plus the whole work needed to make gradient-images in HTML/CSS scalable. A very cool time- and work-saver!

However, I hope you enjoy this new Bluebird theme!

Download sleek.bbtheme

HUD-Mini Bluebird Theme

As requested, I’ve just “scaled down” my “HUD” Bluebird Theme to make it more minimal and small-sized. The theme now is less padded and doesn’t eat-up that much space within your Bluebird as before.

I hope you like HUD-Mini.

Enjoy!

Download hud-mini.bbtheme

HUD Theme for Bluebird

Some weeks passed since I’ve released my last Bluebird Theme called “Refresh”, mostly because of the lack of time to think of other cool and new designs, but “luckily” today it was a pretty crappy-weather-sunday, therefor I can now just announce a new Theme called “HUD” for the great Bluebird Twitter-client!

The Theme itself is based on and made with Pixelmator ( / Pixelmator’s HUD user-interface) and additionally inspired by Delta909′s Summer Wallpaper. Of course, as usual you can replace the background if you should not like it by opening the bbtheme’s package-content, navigating to /img/ and replace the background.png.

I hope you enjoy my new Bluebird theme!

Download hud.bbtheme

//comment: I’ve just updated the theme to use text-shadows. Enjoy!

Refresh Bluebird Theme

A fresh theme a day. My latest creation for the Bluebird Twitter-client is called “Refresh” – a refreshingly new theme!

This time it’s no modification or port of another app’s theme to Bluebird. Instead, it’s a new theme from scratch. The theme is held in a dark mood combined with orange and sky-blue colorized elements. For the background picture I made use of zygat3r’s Dark Wood wallpaper, which I’ve modified a bit in order to still look good if the window would ever get too big and the image’s borders would be visible.

The icons for the individual tweets are the very same icons from Mark Jardine’s “Mars Metallic” theme, with the difference that I’ve inverted their colors to make them fit better into my theme.

The tweets use rounded corners and all kind of transition effects provided by the WebKit CSS-properties. I actually also inserted a property for making the avatar images have rounded corners, but as it seems either Bluebird or WebKit itself doesn’t honor this at that point.

However, the theme is written using Bluebird’s new theme-definitions and should be compatible with Bluebird 1.0 Beta 1.1 and (hopefully) later.

Enjoy!

Download refresh.bbtheme

Minimalistic Tickets Bluebird Theme

Yet, another Bluebird theme.

“Minimalistic Tickets”, like the name already says, is a minimal theme where each tweet is being displayed as a “ticket”. The idea came me, when stumbling through the currently existing themes and noticing that each one has something in common: They all go from the top to the bottom. There was none, where the tweets are right next to each other, side by side.

The theme is pretty much just a demonstration of how new themes could look like. “Breaking the ice”. Trying out something new.

Whatever. I hope you enjoy!

Download minimalistictickets.bbtheme

Sicker Style Bluebird Theme

And yet again, a new theme for the Bluebird Twitter-Client. This time I didn’t just modify an existing one – I took two themes and mashed them up, heh. I took the Bubbling Citrus Bluebird Theme by Sarah Tan and Laurent Baumann and took the Adium Message-Style “Sticker Style” by “bobjr” and threw both in a mixer, heh.

This is one of my first tries to create a bubble-style Bluebird theme. The theme as you can see it on the screenshots uses the DIN Medium font, which is a commercial font. The font is not included in this theme, but it uses alternatives as a replacement, if the font can’t be found on the system.

However, I hope you like the theme. Enjoy!

Download stickerstyle.bbtheme

Modification of Flarup's "Glow"

Today I’ve just played around a bit with Bluebird and its theme-ability to make it fit more into my actual desktop. First of all, I took a look at what theme I could use best for my first tries. I decided to choose Michael Flarup‘s “Glow”-theme. The theme itself looks very neat and tidy and provides cool effects like avatar-reflections and a menu for each tweet.

First of all, I took some new picks on the colors of each tweet (regular tweet, reply, direct message, own tweet) and turned the gradient around, so that it doesn’t “pop-out” but looks more like “punched-in”. Then, I’ve changed the fonts used by the theme. The CSS definition for the fonts now look this way:


...
font: 12px/16px "Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk BE", "Lucida Grande", "Verdana", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial", Sans-Serif;
...
font: 13px "DIN Medium", "Verdana", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial", Sans-serif;
...


Unfortunately the first fonts to be used (Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk and DIN Medium) are commercial fonts which I can’t just pack-in and distribute. Though, it doesn’t look that bad using the Lucida Grande/Verdana fonts.

However, after that I’ve fixed a bug the theme had at least on my Mac (Safari 4), where the background-height was too small so that a small white line always remained at its list’s bottom.

If you like the theme, feel free to download it here and comment on it.

Enjoy!