Thunderbird & Lightning - just discovered a new feature

I'm very happy to use my Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client for mail. I also use the calendar plug-in called Lightning. Lightning is connected directly to my Google Calendar account, so I can view my calendar live. I use several calendars on Google for different purposes. I just need a Todo thing on Google, but I solved that by creating a local account for that purpose.

Allright then. What is the new ?

I just discovered that it's possible to drag-and-drop an e-mail from my inbox to one of the panes on the right hand side. If I drag it to the calendar part of the pane, the mail is copied into a new calendar event. If I drag it into the task pane, the e-mail becomes a task.

I love open source !

Reading ODF files

If you want to read ODF files, you can use OpenOffice.org for that purpose. If you are using OpenOffice.org you can even read files directly in your browser. Read this article:

OpenOffice.org documents within Firefox
(http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/09/openofficeorg-documents-within-firefox/)
By Percy Cabello, Posted on September 23, 2007

If you don't have OpenOffice.org installed already, you can download it here for free http://download.openoffice.org

But even if you don't want to install OpenOffice.org you can read ODF files without any problems. It's just a plug-in for your Firefox browser. Read this article:

View open document text files with Firefox
(http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/02/view-open-document-text-files-with-firefox/)
By Percy Cabello, Posted on February 15, 2007

You can also download an ODF viewer from this place:
http://opendocumentfellowship.org/odfviewer . But why not install OpenOffice.org in stead ?

Mozilla and OpenOffice.org

Just a few days ago Mozilla Foundation published news about the Mozilla Calendar products (Lightning and Sunbird) will be extracted from the other Mozilla products. The Calendar project is now on their own. If this is a positive new approach or if this will leave the team on their own to die is not to say.

Today Sun Microsystems explained how Sun is contributing to the Mozilla project. Surely e-mail and calendar is the missing components in OpenOffice.org when comparing to another office suite, so it was very interesting to hear.

The project is at the moment preparing new versions with focus on supporting additional technologies e.g. small devices in the front end and more free7busy suppliers in the back end.

Better and more intuitive user interface with a new pane in the e-mail views that shows 'today at a glance'. I'm looking forward to try this and compare with e.g. Lotus Notes 8.