What is the Future of Thunderbird?

July 27th, 2007

Free Software

Wow, what a depressing day for Thunderbird fans!   According to several reports from all over the place, Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker announced on her blog that they feel that they are not able to devote the time and resources that are needed for Thunderbird to thrive.   As a result, they are exploring a few different [...]

Thunderbird to Get Tabs!

June 27th, 2007

Free Software

Since the recent release of Thunderbird 2.0, there has been rampant speculation about the features in Thunderbird 3.0. The most anticipated feature is something that I’m not aware of any other e-mail services having, and that is Firefox-style tabs. I was happy to see today that now it has finally been confirmed [...]

Netscape Navigator 9.0 goes to Beta 1

June 5th, 2007

Free Software

I cover a large variety of technology related topics on this site, but my favorite area has always been the web browser.   There are several mainstream browsers with Internet Explorer 7.0, Firefox 2.0, and Opera 9.0 leading the field.  The next level of web browsers includes Apple’s Safari browser (which comes with MAC OS X) [...]

Top 20 Free Applications to Improve Productivity

May 30th, 2007

Free Software, Web Based Apps

Lifehack.org has posted a list of their Top 20 Free Applications to Improve Productivity.  These types of lists are always great, if for no other reason than to compare your opinions to others with similar interests.   For example, the author of this post prefers AVG, while I recommend Avast to anyone needing anti-virus software (even [...]

An Early Look at Thunderbird 3.0

May 29th, 2007

Free Software

CyberNet has posted that Mozilla has updated their Thunderbird Wiki page with early details about Thunderbird 3.0.
Some of the things they are looking at in this version:

Easier Account Setup
Simple Extension Installation

My hope is that they are working on a tabbing system similar to the one in the Firefox web browser.

How to Upgrade Windows Explorer

May 18th, 2007

Free Software

I found that I was using Windows Explorer regularly for everyday functions, so I did some searching and was pleased to see that some free upgrades were available.   Techie Buzz has offered up some alternatives to Windows Explorer for Windows users. 
So far, my early favorite is xplorer², which is really convenient and easy to use.  It looks [...]

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