Sync Your Gmail and Thunderbird with IMAP

October 29th, 2007

Technology

Today I ran across a great post over at Lifehacker titled Turn Thunderbird Into the Ultimate GMail IMAP Client that I thought deserved to be featured here. This proves that in between the Lifehacker fluff posts and spam are occasionally some useful posts.
Anyway, with the recent addition of IMAP features [...]

Technology Talk – 09/23/2007

September 23rd, 2007

Technology

Wow, it has been a very busy week online. Here are a few things I enjoyed from around the blogosphere this week:

The Simple Dollar shares their 30 Essential Open Source software. Included are the usual suspects, but also a few others have been thrown in that you may not know about.
Ashwin guest posted over [...]

Technology Talk – 09/05/2007

September 5th, 2007

Miscellaneous

I usually don’t do more than one technology talk a week, but a lot of great stuff is happening, so here is the second one in three days!

Daily Blog Tips has released a new WordPress Plugin called Homepage Excerpts. This plugin gives you a large number of options, but its primary function is [...]

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 [...]

Technology Talk – 07/27/2007

July 27th, 2007

Technology

There has been a lot of interesting stuff happening around the blogosphere lately. Here are a few that I thought my readers might enjoy:

Mashable offers an A-Z guide of 50+ Tools for the WordPress Admin. This is an addition to their WordPress plugin series, which has previously done AJAX, Multimedia, [...]

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 [...]