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Perspectives, a Firefox extension from Carnegie Mellon, offers robust privacy features.....
Are there too many cooks in the kitchen, working on too many open source projects? Would consolidation help?.....
Open source gaming goes commercial with Wiz handheld.....
Postpath is an open source e-mail and collaboration server offering interoperability with Microsoft Exchange.....
Take a gander at Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client.....
Now that Sourceforge.net has announced the finalists in its Community Choice Awards for best open source applications in various categories, I find a number of my favorite applications missing from the list. Don't get me wrong--this time around, Sourceforge allowed the community to vote, so I don't question how the finalists were arrived at. I just wish a few applications that are near and dear to me got some recognition. Matt Asay already weighed in with his ideas on which applications are missing. Here are a few non-finalists that I wish were finalists.
If you want to put a boatload of useful open source applications on a computer or, as I do, on a pocket USB drive so that you can have them with you at all times, there are now some very fast ways to do this. MacLibre is a great way to get tons of good free, open source apps in one download for Mac users. For Windows users, as I've written about before PortableApps.com is also a great way to get many free applications in one free download. So what kinds of applications are we talking about?
If you want a fast way to get a long list of excellent open source applications, check into PortableApps.com. I covered this site once before from the perspective of keeping useful open source applications on a pocket USB thumb drive. Since then PortableApps has been steadily adding excellent open source applications to its free downloadable offering, including a good open source task manager, and a useful open source FTP client for those times when you need to move large files around. This is the fastest way I know of to stock up on great OSS apps.
While many users of Mozilla's Firefox open source browser and Thunderbird open source e-mail engine are hip to useful Firefox extensions and efficiency tips, there are a lot of really useful add-ons for Thunderbird too. These can help you search through your e-mail more effectively, allow you to browse new messages within other applications, integrate how you use Firefox and Thunderbird together, and much more.
In this post, I'll round up a series of useful Thunderbird add-ons that I use. These can save you much time and hassle.
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Mozilla Thunderbird is a rather amazing email client in its own right. It's quick on its feet, it's customizable, it's cross-platform, and it handles IMAP email and identities better than most of its competition in the desktop email client space.
