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In the last 24 hours or so, I’ve discovered two new Thunderbird extensions that I absolutely love. The first is the new Release Candidate for Lightning 0.8 (the calendar extension). (Warning: This is NOT a final release. I would not recommend using it with real data yet.) For years, I’ve been using Sunbird - the standalone calendar from Mozilla. (Lighting & Calendar are developed in parallel by the same team.) However, the integration features this time around might just be enough to get me to switch over. The task integration was a particular improvement over previous versions.

The other extension is Seek. It adds faceted search to Thunderbird. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought about how nice it would be to have something like this. (I actually had an extension I’d started myself to do this, but never got very far.) This will completely change how I sort, save, and search my archived mail. Beautiful. (This one is a full release, but is more features are forthcoming.)

Lightning 0.8 RC1: ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/releases/0.8rc1/

Seek: http://simile.mit.edu/seek/

A friend sent me this link to a utility which allows you to sort the buttons on your Windows taskbar. Very useful. On negative point is that the webpage is in “Engrish”. Its written by a Japanese programmer whose English is not great. However the utility itself is just fine.

I can make no guarantees about the long term quality of the software. I’ve only been using it for about a day.

TaskBar++