Mozilla Plans to Hand Off Thunderbird
Email Call to Action: The Mozilla Foundation is planning to give the Thunderbird project away so they can concentrate solely on Firefox. We have concluded that we should find a new, separate organizational setting for Thunderbird; one that allows the Thunderbird community to determine its own destiny. Mozilla is exploring ...
Published: August 1, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Thunderbird Adoption Lagging
Thunderbird Finds It Hard To Mimic Firefox's Rapid Rise, Says Report: A report has been released which indicates that Thunderbird is not flourishing the way Firefox is. Thunderbird's major shortcoming is the absence of an integrated calendar, the report says. A future release is expected to fill that void. Once ...
Published: April 8, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 981
New Firefox and Thunderbird Book
Firefox and Thunderbird Garage: Another cool book on the Wonder Twins of the Web. I'm still waiting for the first one. Welcome to Firefox and Thunderbird Garage. This book will introduce you to the exciting world of safe and secure browsing and email using two great products: the Firefox browser ...
Published: March 11, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 964
Thunderbird's Anti-Phishing Detection
Mozilla Thunderbird Gains Phishing Detection: Even more Thunderbird excellence is coming in a future release. Thunderbird will display a confirmation dialogue when the user follows a link in an email to a site that looks like it might be part of a phishing scam. The dialogue is currently triggered when ...
Published: January 23, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 949
Thunderbird Spellchecking
Mozilla Thunderbird Inline Spell Checking Test Build: Good stuff coming to Thunderbird. [...] the feature highlights potentially misspelled words with a red dotted underline (much like applications such as Microsoft Word). Users can easily pick from the top seven spelling suggestions using the context menu. This would actually be a ...
Published: January 19, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 934
New Thunderbird Release
Mozilla Thunderbird: Thunderbird 0.4 is out. The attachment icon (the paper clip) has been broken out to its own column (instead of being overlad on the envelope you could never see it) so you can sort on it now, and the envelope now includes "forwarded" and "replied" arrows like ...
Published: December 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 931
Tabbed Messages in Thunderbird
tabbed message display in Thunderbird: Apparently coming soon: tabbed message browsing in Thunderbird. Here's a screenshot of a test build. Firefox has shown that keeping a particular page open and browsing multiple web pages simultaneously is easier when the pages are loaded into tabs. The same is true for email ...
Published: December 11, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 927
Thunderbird Quicktext
Knock down repetitive e-mail with Thunderbird's QuickText: Good article on Lifehacker about what appears to be a very cool little extension. The QuickText Thunderbird extension saves collections of reusable text snippets that help you whip up personalized replies to repetitive e-mail messages with a few keystrokes. Unlike other text saver ...
Published: November 4, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 921
Thunderbird Annoyance
I use Thunderbird exclusively at home for mail and RSS feeds. It feels lightweight and it does everything I need it to (I don't schedule many meetings outside of work so I don't miss a calendar, for instance). But there are a few things about this application that really irk ...
Published: October 18, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 901
Lightning: Mozilla Strikes Again
Given the growing success of Firefox, a new Mozilla-based project code-named 'Lightning' may be worth keeping an eye on. Lightning is the working project name for an extension to tightly integrate calendar functionality (scheduling, tasks, etc.) into Thunderbird. [...] Q. Is Lightning meant as a competitor to Outlook? A. With ...
Published: December 28, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 854
I've Accidentally Switched to GMail
I was traveling last week, and I couldn't get my outbound SMTP to work from anywhere for some reason -- from the airport, the hotel, the remote office...nowhere. Frustrating. So I started using GMail last week, with the intention of using it just until I could get back to home ...
Published: April 9, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 828
Firebird Rises Again
The Mozilla Foundation has cranked out new versions of three major apps today. The Mozilla Suite goes to 1.5, with enhancements to Composer, a new spellchecker, and stability enhancements. The world's greatest browser (if you ask me), FireBird, goes to version 0.7 and gets enhanced preferences, alternate stylesheets features, and ...
Published: October 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 806
*Bird Icons
Another Alternative Firebird and Thunderbird Icon: I've never been particularly excited about icons. Then I saw these two.
Published: September 29, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 745
RSS Aggregation Models
It struck me last night that there are two models of RSS aggregation: "real-time" and "stored" (yes, I just made those two terms up...). Real-time are aggregators like Mozilla's Sage extension. This model goes and gets the feed real time and displays it on-demand. In a lot of ways, they're ...
Published: September 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 730
Switching to Web Mail
I've decided to make the switch to pure Web mail. It's been a long time coming. About three years ago, I got sick of having to sync a POP account in two locations, so I switched to IMAP. I've loved that set-up ever since. I have an account at Fusemail, ...
Published: September 28, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 727
Software Settings Sychronization
Here's something I'd love the ability to synchronize two installations of the same software on two different computers. I'm thinking right now of Thunderbird. I have so many settings customized email accounts, RSS feeds, custom search rules, address book entries, adaptive spam filters, etc. Settings I tweak on ...
Published: December 26, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 706
FeedDemon 1.0
FeedDemon IS golden!: Here something in complete opposition to what I wrote yesterday about perpetual betas. Yep, it's midnight, and I've locked the FeedDemon 1.0 code. Expect to see it for sale early next week! So, if Nick Bradbury is willing to slap a 1.0 label on FeedDemon after several ...
Published: December 12, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 675
The Mozilla Corporation
Mozilla Foundation Announces Creation of Mozilla Corporation: Most of the foundation is transferring to a (technically) for-profit, taxable corporation. The creation of the Mozilla Corporation should eliminate some of the thorny legal and tax issues that have been caused by the revenue-generating potential of Firefox and Thunderbird. The Mozilla Corporation ...
Published: August 3, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 674
Quick RAM Survey
RAM Upgrades Are A Wonderful Thing: Let's take a little survey: How much RAM do you use? I can't imagine using a modern computer with less than 1GB of ram. When you factor in Thunderbird, Firefox, Emacs, two IM clients, Office Apps, PuTTY, the Gimp, and the various other stuff ...
Published: February 16, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 671
Wikipedia on Firefox
Mozilla Firefox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The featured article at Wikipedia today is a huge, detailed piece on Mozilla Firefox, thus bringing together two of my favorite things. With Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation aims to develop a small, fast, simple, and highly extensible web browser (separate from the larger ...
Published: November 27, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 670
SeaMonkey
SeaMonkey News: While the Mozilla Suite split into its component parts (Firefox, Thunderbird, and Nvu), the combination of all the pieces will live on as SeaMonkey. The group is planning to deliver an Alpha version of its first release, SeaMonkey 1.0, within the next few weeks. [...] SeaMonkey contains a ...
Published: July 4, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 669
Custom Compiled Mozilla Apps
MOOX :: Welcome to my Werxshop...: This guy custom compiles Mozilla apps for various platforms. If I'm reading his analysis (PDF) correctly, he's claiming 10-20% rendering speed increases for various Intel processors. I am currently releasing four versions, or "M" builds M0, M1, M2, and M3, of the Firefox ...
Published: March 27, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 666
Long Beta Periods
What is it with perpetual betas? Thunderbird just offered a new release: 0.4. Zero-point-four? This is a full-featured, functional mail client. How does it just get to be 0.4? Before you answer that, consider that Google News a service used for the last year by millions of people every ...
Published: December 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 658
Mozilla Trifecta
The folks over at mozilla.org have been busy: New Firefox Release 1.0PR includes Live Bookmarks, which creates a bookmarks folder out of an RSS feed, and a really slick interface for finding text in a page. It does disable some older extensions, though, so look out. My main gripe is ...
Published: September 14, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 656
Why to Use Firebird
Mozilla Firebird Primer for Windows Users: A great article that explains why Firebird is a better browser than Internet Explorer. However, at one point, the author says this: I definitely do not recommend using Firebird for any actual work, since it's still in pre-release, and stability is obviously not guaranteed. ...
Published: February 1, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 651
Even the Viruses are Open Source Now
ZDNet states that the latest variants of the Bagle worm include the original assembler source code of the virus as an attachment to the emails it sends. Security experts worry that this will produce a lot more variants, and make it harder to prosecute the author. "On Friday, the perfect ...
Published: July 6, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 648
Thumbs Up for Firefox
Will Mozilla Fly?: Very positive article on Firefox from a U.K. IT magazine. It took me a whole five minutes to decide to ditch Internet Explorer and switch to Firefox. Why? The learning curve is about 5 minutes at most. FireFox is simpler to use. Configuring it is easy ...
Published: April 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 647
Newsgator 2.0
Press Release - NewsGator Online Services...: I was one of the beta testers for Newsgator 2.0. I can finally vouch that it's a stunning piece of work, since I've been under an NDA for the last two months. In addition to launching NewsGator 2.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) ...
Published: January 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 642
TaskArrange
Elias Fotinis TaskArrange :: Arrange the Windows taskbar buttons: Okay, this sounds stupid, but I'm wicked guilty of it. From left to right, it has to be Outlook, Thunderbird, Firefox. If it's not, I get a little...anxious. Sometimes we open our programs in a specific sequence, to keep their taskbar ...
Published: May 19, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 632
Hotmail Upgrade Coming
Hotmail Overhaul on the Way: Some changes over at Hotmail. If you log into your account, they have a Flash demo of what's to come. The biggest thing is mailing sorting, and Hotmails edging towards what I think is the future of email clients: blacklisting (to one extent or the ...
Published: November 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 629
Future-Proofing Contact Information
How do you future-proof contact information? It strikes me that, through the years, I migrate from one messaging platform to another, but I'm generally contacting the same people. My Mom is going to be my Mom no matter what email client I'm using. Probably true for my wife, too. So, ...
Published: January 26, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 606
Diluted Spam Messages
Looks like spammers are trying to fool Bayesian filters by diluting their text. I got a spam today with two lines at the top advertising "cash freedom" or something, and I noticed that the message scrolled quite a bit. After about a hundred line breaks, I found this: I can ...
Published: November 27, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 596
The Saga of the Texas Holdem Spammer
Yeah, I'm pissed. Really pissed. When does comment spam become a DDOS attack? There's a fine line, and some a**hole crossed it this morning. I knew there was a problem when I sat down to eat my cereal and read the news this morning and the Windows XP Home login ...
Published: November 17, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 588
Kill the Installers
I'd like to make an appeal to all the developers in the world for software that doesn't install. Just give me an executable. Bundle everything up into that, or perhaps have a handful of DLLs in the same folder as the program. I get the program, I stick it in ...
Published: September 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 580
Why Email is Better Than the Telephone
I hate it when people call me on the phone. I d much rather they use email. I got to wondering why this was so the other day, and here goes: Email is quicker. I m at my computer anyway, so I don t have to turn away and pick up the phone, ...
Published: February 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 574
Essentials
Essentials : Mark Pilgrim has listed his "essential" software tools for doing his job. I always like to see these the absolute, "can't live without" tools of people who do the same work as me. As the risk of being self-indulgent, here's mine: Email: Thunderbird or Mozilla Mail via ...
Published: May 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 564
The Lost Screencap Analysis
About four months ago, I asked you all to send me a screencap of the Gadgetopia home page sitting in your browser window. I promised to do some analysis of the results, and I kept meaning to get to it, but never got to it. Tonight, I finally sat down ...
Published: February 22, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 557
Hallmark and URL Length
My wife sent a Hallmark eCard to someone today. She picked a format then typed a paragraph or so of text. The length of her prose was nothing out of the ordinary. Hallmark then generated an email to the recipient and CC'd my wife. In this email was a link ...
Published: March 26, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 550
Open-Sourced Groupware: Contenders for the Throne
If you've read this blog, you may have picked up on the fact that I'm a bit of an open-source advocate. I far prefer to use open-source solutions wherever possible. By and large, open-source doesn't get enough credit. I've run Linux and KDE as my primary work environment on my ...
Published: February 16, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 543

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