Netbooks usually run at limited screen resolutions which often fail to display websites and services properly. And those that are displayed properly still need to be scrolled so that all of the content of the website can be accessed on the netbook. Netbook users who access Gmail on the web face the same problem. Many [...]

Categories: Email, Firefox

An update to the desktop email client Thunderbird was released by the Mozilla Messaging developers. Thunderbird 3.1 Beta has been released replacing the previously available alpha version of the email software. Thunderbird 3.1 Beta is a preview release that fixes a total of 96 different bugs including crash, performance and security fixes. One of the [...]

Categories: Email

If you are a Gmail user chance is that you are also subscribed to other Google services such as Google Calendar. We all know that Thunderbird users can integrate Gmail into the desktop email client to archive messages, access them while they are offline and manage the account almost as if they would use the [...]

Categories: Email

A new version of the Mozilla Thunderbird desktop email client has been released and is currently being distributed to mirror servers worldwide. The release has not been made official yet but it is likely that the announcement will be made in the next 24 hours. The update check in the email client is also not [...]

Categories: Email

Gmail is without doubt a popular email service which can largely be attributed to the fact that it is run by Google and that it offers lots of additional features and options to tweak the interface and speed up the workflow. Google has released a Gmail Ninja guide to further that popularity. The guide is [...]

Categories: Email

Gmail users had until now the choice to use http or https when connecting to the Gmail servers. Http offered performance advantages while https made up for it with an increase in security. Gmail users could either use the http or https protocol to connect to Gmail. The Gmail options provided the means to permanently [...]

Categories: Email

One of the reasons for Dropbox’s popularity are the manifold uses that go well beyond the standard file synchronization features that the standard Dropbox client offers. We just recently reviewed the client server application Akira which Dropbox users can install to issue remote commands to another computer system. Maildrop is another application that extends the [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

The email client Thunderbird displays email conversations on one page. The visual distinction between individual messages is a colored vertical line. Those lines can take up quite a bit of screen estate if lots of emails have been send back and forth. We recently covered the Collapse Quotes add-on for Thunderbird which provided a better [...]

Categories: Email

After several beta versions and two release candidates the final version of the popular desktop email client Thunderbird 3 has finally been released to the public. The new version of the email program is already available at the official Mozilla Messaging website. Update checks within the email client should also be able to pick up [...]

Categories: Email