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Since OStatic's inception, we've done regular roundups on everything from the best Firefox extensions, to free books on open source topics, to top FOSS applications for working with video and digital music. Many of these are good ways to dive into open source applications, plug-ins and communities that you may not know about. In case you missed any of these or are new to the site, here are the eight most popular roundups we've done, including hundreds of our favorite apps and extensions.

Mozilla recently released Thunderbird 3 Beta 2, another stop along the road to the release of the Thunderbird 3 open source e-mail client. Thunderbird handles HTML mail well, lets you keep images turned off until you want them to load, has good protocols for dealing with spam, a decent search engine, and allows the user to specify manual checks of individual mail accounts (handy if you have many accounts configured). Our friends over at TheAppleBlog have a look at the second beta--check it out. Also check into our favorite add-ons for Thunderbird.?