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Thunderbird 3 RC1 Released

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November 27th, 2009
Viktor Petersson

thunderbird-logoToday Mozilla announced the launch or the first released candidate of their long awaited Thunderbird 3. The list of changelog since the late release, beta 4, is very extensive and includes a lot of important fixes and improvements. On the core-level, Thunderbird 3 RC1 now uses Gecko 1.9.1.5.

Back in September I wrote a very positive review of Thunderbird 3 Beta 4. I was personally very impressed with Beta 4, and I’m sure RC1 won’t be a disappointment. Let the countdown to Thunderbird 3 stable begin.

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Email Search Part 3: Alternative Resources and Tips

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November 27th, 2009
Chris Hoke

email_lookup_1In part one, I wrote a brief introduction to email search and discussed how reverse lookup works. In part two, I reviewed several email opt-in email directories, as well as a few free and premium email search and reverse lookup services. In this, the third and final article, we’ll delve into a few resources you can use as an alternative to the more standard email search methods.

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Google Updates Connector for BlackBerry and Adds Attachments to Offline-mode

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November 26th, 2009
Viktor Petersson

GoogleAppsGoogle recently unveiled two new updates. One update affects both Google Apps and Gmail while the other one affects only Google Apps.

The first update is support for attachments in offline-mode and affects both Google Apps and Gmail. The offline-mode in Gmail/Google Apps is using Google Gears, and is a still considered experimental. Therefor it’s located in the ‘Labs’ section.

This is a major improvement to the Offline mode and I was actually surprised when I read this announcement, as I thought it was already supported. At least to me, attachments are as important at the content.

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Tags: BES, Gmail, Google Apps, Google Gears Posted in News 1 Comment »

Zimbra Collaboration Suite 6.0.3 is Out

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November 26th, 2009
Viktor Petersson

zimbra_logo_newZCS just released version 6.0.3. Contrary to normal minor releases like this, we strongly urge you to update to this release, as it includes a fix against the recently discovered SSL vulnerability. In addition to this SSL fix, there’s also a security update for Nginx and Jetty.

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Djigzo – Innovative Open Source Email Encryption

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November 23rd, 2009
Viktor Petersson

djigzo_logoA few weeks back I wrote an article named ‘How Can We Keep Email Safe In The Cloud?.’ After I published the article I was contacted by a guy named Martijn Brinkers. Martijn told me that he’s working on a similar project to what I discussed in my theoretical article. The product he was referring to is named Djigzo.

After looking into the product I was surprised why I had never heard about the project before. It’s very innovative and also fairly easy to deploy. I was impressed by the product and reached out to Martijn to ask him a few questions about Djigzo.

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Tags: djigzo, encryption, GnuPG, PGP, security Posted in Interviews, News 1 Comment »

Power Panel Makes Google Apps More Complete

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November 22nd, 2009
Viktor Petersson

GoogleAppsGoogle Apps is great. Well, it’s great as long as your needs are very simple. Once you start digging into more sophisticated features such as performing bulk administrative tasks you start to see the limitations. Google Apps even lacks a usable shared address book at this point. For a company, this is a major reason to stick to their existing Exchange architecture.

Luckily there are 3rd party add-ons that address some of these shortcoming. Power Panel from LTech is one add-on that makes Google Apps a whole lot more useful. I’ve reached out to Ed Laczynski, founder and CTO of LTech to let him explain what Power Panel is and how it can increase the value of Google Apps.

Unfortunately Power Panel is not available for Google Apps Standard, as it does not support API access or the Google App Engine.

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Tags: Google Apps, LTech Posted in Interviews, News 1 Comment »

Your Email Provider Reveals Who You Are

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November 21st, 2009
Viktor Petersson

emailThe research company RapLeaf recently published the 3rd article in their series where they’ve studied social media and email. Using a sample of 120,000 email users (AOL, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo users), they studied the gender, online activity, friend counts and social network memberships. It’s a really interesting study, and I strongly suggest you go ahead and read the full reports, not just this summary.

Part 1: Age and Gender

“Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo users tend to be younger while AOL users are slightly older. Hotmail’s audience tends to made up of more males, Gmail users tend to lean female, and AOL and Yahoo users are equally likely to be male and female.”

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Tags: AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, research, Yahoo Posted in Miscellaneous, News 1 Comment »

Yahoo Mail Improves Contacts Consolidation

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November 21st, 2009
Viktor Petersson

Yahoo_logoManaging contacts is a pain in the butt. This is particularly true if you use multiple web-based email accounts. Yesterday Yahoo announced the release of a new tool that at least makes contact consolidation easier. Based on technology from TrueSwitch (the company with the world’s ugliest website), Yahoo joins Gmail and countless others that use the same technology.

Contrary Gmail’s interface though, Yahoo’s tool is more geared towards consolidating multiple sources. The tool is very easy to use. Just select the account types you wish to transfer and the credentials. Once the consolidation is completed, the contacts will be accessible within your Yahoo Mail. The announcement also points out that you can use their built-in tool to get rid of duplicates.

Link and screenshot after the jump.
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threadsy review: The best personal communication aggregator to date? (We’re giving away invites too!)

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November 21st, 2009
Viktor Petersson

threadsy_logoBefore I dive into threadsy’s details, let’s first cover the basics. threadsy is a web-based communication aggregator. It allows you to aggregate your emails and social networks into one common bucket. The basic idea is that communication is all the same, it doesn’t matter if it’s an email, a Facebook message or a direct message on Twitter. threadsy allows you to communicate using all these different platforms seamlessly. At this point, treadsy supports, Email (AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and normal IMAP), Facebook and Twitter. threadsy is still in private beta, but we’re giving away 20 invites!

A few months back I received an invite to threadsy‘s private beta. I was really excited about using it for a few days and then somehow forgot about it and got back into my normal routines. Then yesterday I found out that threadsy added IMAP support and decided to take it for another spin.

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Atmail 6.1 Released

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November 20th, 2009
Viktor Petersson

Atmail LogoAtmail today announced the release of version 6.1. The most significant feature in the release is the Outlook Websync-support which allows you to synchronize your contacts, calendar and task between your local Outlook with Atmail server (using CalDAV).

Screenshot of and changelog after the jump.
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