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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Mozilla, Open Source

Mozilla-based Sunbird and Lightning calendar apps hit 0.9

Sunbird 0.9
Mozilla has released version 0.9 of Sunbird, its calendar application. The Lightning calender extension for the Thunderbird email client has also been updated. There's a huge list of changes under the hood, but here are some of the most noticeable:
  • Calendar views have been overhauled
  • A progress indicator shows up when you're reloading a remote calendar
  • Multi-day events now have visual indicators showing that they're connected
  • You can now show the today pane in the tasks mode
Memory use has also been improved and the application is reportedly more stable. Lightning 0.9 is the last version designed for use with Thunderbird 2. Future development will focus on integrating the calendar extension with Thunderbird 3.

Sunbird and Lightning are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

[via Mozilla Links]

Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Mozilla, Open Source

Mozilla Sunbird 0.7 and Lightning 0.7 calendars released

Sunbird 0.7
Mozilla's open source calendar programs Sunbird and Lightning just keep getting better and better. Sunbird is a standalone application for Windows, Linux, and Mac, while Lightning is a calendar plugin for the Thunderbird e-mail client.

Sunbird and Lightning 0.7 are out today, and they feature a new event/task dialog, a new event summary dialog, and roughly a billion other new features and bug fixes. OK, more like 252. One nice touch is that events in the same time slot are shrunken so they fit in the display.

And as CyberNet points out, there's also a new version of the Google Calendar plugin for Sunbird and Lightning. The add-on lets you write data to a Google Calender using your desktop calendar client.

[Thanks Nikolay!]

Filed under: Productivity, Mozilla

Mozilla releases Sunbird and Lighting 0.5

SunbirdIt's been a long time coming, but Mozilla's Sunbird and Lightning calendar programs have hit 0.5. Sunbird is a standalone calendar application, while Lightning is an extension for Mozilla's Thunderbird email program.

While neither program gets as much attention as their big brothers Firefox and Thunderbird, they're pretty robust calendars, and the 0.5 releases include a ton of new features and bug fixes.
  • Refined user interface
  • Automatic migration of data from Sunbird 0.2, iCal, and Evolution
  • Improved printing function
  • Lightning works better with Thunderbird (when it comes to things like copying and pasting or printing)
  • Support for Google Calendar (via the Google Calendar Provider extension)

Sunbird and Lightning 0.5 are available for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Version 1.0 is scheduled for an early 2008 release.

[via Mozilla Calendar Weblog]

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Office, Productivity, Open Source

Portable Apps Suite

Portable Apps SuiteThe fine folks at PortableApps.com have put together an excellent Portable Apps Suite that bundles eight essential Windows apps that you can take with you on a USB drive. The included apps are Firefox (web browser), Thunderbird (e-mail client), OpenOffice.org (office suite), AbiWord (word processor), NVU (web site editor), Sunbird (calendar and tasks manager), FileZilla (FTP client), and Gaim (IM).  The suite comes in two flavors: Standard, which includes all of the above and fits on a 256MB drive, and Light, which omits OpenOffice.org and fits in 128MB. Brilliant.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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