Clark Computer Consulting Port Jervis, NY » Thunderbird http://rootaid.com Your Local Computer Guy Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:05:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Thunderbird and Gmail are still fine feathered email friends. http://rootaid.com/2009/12/13/thunderbird-and-gmail-are-still-fine-feathered-email-friends/ http://rootaid.com/2009/12/13/thunderbird-and-gmail-are-still-fine-feathered-email-friends/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:48:11 +0000 Scott http://rootaid.com/?p=1702 Continue reading →]]> spreadthunderbird_logoThunderbird 3 came out on Tuesday and its Gmail integration is better than ever. Download the newest version of Thunderbird from www.mozillamessaging.com/thunderbird Once you’ve  installed Thunderbird 3 all that you need to do is enter your Name, Email Address and Password and you will be up and running in minutes. Thunderbird even downloads all your Gmail labels automatically. I highly recommend Thunderbird 3 for anyone that wants a local copy of their Gmail  for offline use. I personally use Gmail as my primary personal and business email client. Thunderbird allows me to make a local copy of my Gmail account for both safety and offline use. Check out the following links for more info on this great free and Open Source application.

Thunderbird Release Notes http://www.mozillamessaging.com/thunderbird/3.0/releasenotes/

Thunderbird 3 Features http://www.mozillamessaging.com/thunderbird/features/

Review: Thunderbird 3 takes flight with tabs, enhanced search http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/12/review-thunderbird-3-hatches-with-tabs-and-enhanced-search.ars

The French Military contributed to Thunderbird 3 http://www.geek.com/articles/news/the-french-military-contributed-to-thunderbird-3-20091211/

Like Firefox? Try Thunderbird 3 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/121109-like-firefox-try-thunderbird.html

Mozilla’s Thunderbird E-mail Client Comes With Tabs

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/184073/mozillas_thunderbird_email_client_comes_with_tabs.html

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]]> http://rootaid.com/2009/12/13/thunderbird-and-gmail-are-still-fine-feathered-email-friends/feed/ 0 How to smoothly transition to the Linux Desktop http://rootaid.com/2009/08/13/how-to-smoothly-transition-to-the-linux-desktop/ http://rootaid.com/2009/08/13/how-to-smoothly-transition-to-the-linux-desktop/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:39:32 +0000 Scott http://rootaid.com/?p=652 Continue reading →]]> Mozilla LogosUsing Free and Open software on your PC will save you money and also provide a more secure operating system. Switching to  the following applications on your Windows PC will  help you  smoothly transition to the Free and Open Linux desktop.

Firefox as a replacement for Internet Explorer http://www.mozilla.com

Thunderbird  as a replacement for Outlook Express  http://www.mozillamessaging.com

Open Office as a replacement for Microsoft Office  http://www.openoffice.org/

Abiword as a lightweight replacement for Microsoft Word.  http://www.abisource.com/

Pidgin to replace your instant messaging software  http://www.pidgin.im/

And finally Ubuntu as a replacement for Windows http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/904features/

Once you go free and open there will be no turning back to the dark side. Go set your desktop free… :-)

]]> http://rootaid.com/2009/08/13/how-to-smoothly-transition-to-the-linux-desktop/feed/ 0 Thunderbird and Gmail are fine feathered email friends. http://rootaid.com/2009/01/16/thunderbird-and-gmail-are-fine-feathered-email-friends/ http://rootaid.com/2009/01/16/thunderbird-and-gmail-are-fine-feathered-email-friends/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:53:40 +0000 Scott http://rootaid.com/?p=61 Continue reading →]]> Thunderbird is an excellent email client that can do just about everything  short of doing your dishes and creating world peace.  The world peace add-on is in the works and will be out as soon as the development team can agree on the name.

Mozilla Thunderbird Ok so what in the world is Thunderbird?  Thunderbird is a full featured email client that can easily make you forget that Outlook Express on Windows or Mail on the Mac ever existed.  The ability to add features through Thunderbird Add-ons allows you to stay current and have all the flashy features of Outlook and Mail without having to pay extra for the features. Oh yeah, did I mention that this is free :-) Check out the features at the following link.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/features.html

Ok so how does Gmail work with Thunderbird and why are they fine feathered friends? Gmail is an excellent web based email provider that has great support for Thunderbird. The only thing you need to do to get Gmail working in Thunderbird is to enable POP.  Go to the following link to enable POP in Gmail and follow the installation instructions. https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=38343&topic=12810

With Mozilla Firefox as web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird for your email and Open Office 3 for your Office suite you only need one more thing….Mozilla Sunbird which will be discussed in a future post.

So now that you know about Thunderbird….don’t just sit there….move your mouse over the following link and click.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Then hit the download button and download and install your new fine feathered email best friend. …. go already.

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