I live and die by the calendar. In all of my incarnations the calendar is my daily best friend. I use Google Calendar, Lightning, and another, lesser known calendar app – gdeskcal. The gdeskcal is more of an applet that can reside on nearly any desktop (although it was written for the GNOME desktop) which [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jun 20th, 2009
- Comments: 3
Use Bogofilter for better junk detection in Evolution
So you’re using the Linux operating system and you’re not concerned with viruses. But you still get SPAM – and plenty of it. With the Evolution groupware suite you have, by default, Spamassassin as your Junk filtering tool. For some this is enough. For others, howerver, it doesn’t cut it. For those that need more [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: May 14th, 2009
- Comments: 1
Connect Evolution to Google mail and calendar
How many email accounts do you have? How many calendars do you use? If you’re like me you have more than you can manage – unless you manage them in a centralized location. That is one of the beauties of using a groupware client like Evolution. And fortunately the Evolution PIM plays well with Google [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Apr 28th, 2009
- Comments: 3
Kontact: The Swiss Army Knife of PIMs
If you’ve ever used a PIM (Personal Information Manager) you know how important they can be for both business and personal organization. Most users know Microsoft Outlook. Most Linux users know Evolution. But there is another PIM out there that has more to offer than any other PIM available. That PIM? Kontact.
Kontact is the [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Feb 9th, 2009
- Comments: 17
Replace Outlook with Evolution: A Linux Groupware Suite
For many users, Outlook is the de facto standard email client…if you’re on Windows. And why not? It’s an all-in-one groupware suite that can manage your email, your calendar, your tasks, your contacts, and much more. It’s easy to use and, for the most part, reliable. But what if I told you there was a [...]
