Thunderbird is not dying. Great work has already taken place by some talented developers. Need proof? Check it out (though take note it’s a beta and shouldn’t be used in a production environment, yada, yada yada). That said, it been a long road to 3.0 but progress is being made.
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Posts Tagged ‘Thunderbird’
Thunderbird’s Future
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This is actually the second blog post of mine to have that title. The first was in 2004 when I said Thunderbird needs a similar effort. A little more than 4 years later, I’m really glad to see it finally become a reality.
As a side note, a lot of my old blog posts [...]
Zimbra Desktop
Yahoo owned Zimbra released the latest Zimbra Desktop today. At a glance it seems pretty nice. Essentially Yahoo Mail running on Mozilla Prism. It does seem somewhat of a large download for what it is. But maybe they still have some fat to trim. What is now Firefox was pretty [...]
Vistaster
From Urban Dictionary via Fake Steve:
Vistaster n. a giant cluster-fuck; a colossal mistake; a turning point, inflection point, or event that, in retrospect, turns out to have led to the doom and demise of a once-powerful company, person or organization.
DERIVATIVES:
vistastrous. adj.
visastrously. adv.
“Have you seen Speed Racer? It’s a total vistaster.”
I think it’s about time to [...]
Summer Of Code 2008
Google announced the project lists for Summer Of Code 2008. Some of the more interesting projects from my perspective:
Adium
Data Detectors for Adium
Dojo Foundation
Native cryptography API for Google Gears
Dojo-Charting improvements
Dojo GFX Enhancement
FFmpeg
AAC-LC Encoder
MLP/TrueHD encoder
Apple Lossless Encoder for FFmpeg
Gallery
Facebook / Flickr Style Image Region Based Tagging
Inkscape
SVG Fonts
Joomla!
Multi-DB support, and Database abstraction layer implementation for Joomla!
The Mozilla [...]
Gmail Contact Sync
Google released the API for contacts. How long before someone comes up with a Thunderbird plugin to sync up with it? Any takers?
I’d love to know why they decided the API route, rather than use LDAP. It can be secured using TLS, and require a bind DN and bind password. If [...]
Microsoft’s Open Source Decoy
So Microsoft will open up with information on many protocols/formats, and provide a “covenant” not to sue open source developers. Note the exception. Microsoft reserves the right to sue companies who commercially distribute such implementations. They need to get a license. As Microsoft put it in their principles:
Open Source Compatibility. Microsoft [...]
Mozilla Messaging
As some may remember, Mozilla’s plan for Thunderbird was to form a new (then unnamed) company owned by the Foundation. Mozilla Messaging has now launched. I’m a fan of this approach as I think it allows for the most synergy between the projects, which are really more fraternal or conjoined twins than sister [...]
Thunderbird Sync With iPhone/iPod touch
I’ve gotten quite a few emails over the past several months from people who want to know how to sync their iPhone (or iPod touch) with Thunderbird. Quite a few are disappointed to find mozPod doesn’t support these newer devices. It’s not quite my fault as I’ve yet to see any indication that [...]
Mitch Kapor Leaves Chandler
Chandler is the attempt by OSAF to create a PIM. Several years later, it’s still not ready for prime time. Now Mitch Kapor is leaving, and his funding will follow.
He also sits on the board of directors for the Mozilla Foundation. Parent of the Mozilla Corporation and the yet-to-be-named mail corporation which [...]
