How would you respond if I told you that all it would take is a few clicks to upgrade your Windows XP to Wndows Vista? That it would be able to download and upgrade the entire system in a matter of hours (depending on the speed of your Internet connection). What if I said it would also upgrade your word processor, web browser, and most of the other commonly used applications? What if I said it wouldn't even cost you a thing?
Thunderbird is an email software sibling to Firefox, the excellent web browser from the Mozilla foundation. Today I found out that version 2.0 was released for Thunderbird. Among the new features are:
I noticed recently that Google has a web page widget for Google Talk. I have one major suggestion:
I manage an instance of Google Apps for Your Domain. It would be more than great if Google could work out an instance of the Talk Widget to work with a Google Apps domain. The widget could be either added to the customized Google Apps homepage, or it could even be added to another homepage for the domain.
I was listening to music today when all of a sudden my iPod Nano froze up in the middle of the song, with the display lit. Pushing any of the normal buttons wouldn't un-freeze it. Even waiting for a few minutes, the display stayed lit and it still wouldn't do anything.
I've been using OpenOffice.org on macs long before I even owned a mac. OpenOffice.org was just barely turning 1.1 back in those days, and installing it on a mac required learning how to install and get running X11.
NeoOffice is a version of OpenOffice.org rebuilt entirely for the mac. I've been using versions of NeoOffice for some time, but it has finally hit a level of maturity that makes me feel more confortable about showing it off. The latest version, 2.1, is available for download and is based off of OpenOffice.org version 2.1.
This is the first version of NeoOffice that is completely convincing as a mac application. Continue reading NeoOffice ships version 2.1…