Peter
Mozilla have announced the release of Thunderbird 2.0, the email companion to Firefox.
Today the email experience for millions of people gets even better. Mozilla's prize-winning Thunderbird email client celebrates the release of Thunderbird 2 today.New features. Improved security and privacy. Open Source. Available in more than 30 languages thanks to the efforts of our amazing localization communities. Personalizable. Customizable with extensions. Access to web mail services.
Thunderbird 2 …
PeterFirefox's Find on this page functionality is great. A quick Ctrl-F (or Cmd-F on OS X) and you can use the live searching functionality to find a particular word or phrase located on the current page.
However, there's actually an even quicker way to invoke this functionality.
If you type the / key, then just type what you are searching for, Firefox opens a Quick Find box at the bottom …
PeterIn an unprecented move, Microsoft have apparently released a Windows Media Player plugin for our favourite cross-platform free software web browser, Firefox.
While Firefox users have generally been able to play MP3 audio files, and MPEG2 and MPEG4 videos, using Apple's QuickTime player plug-in, streaming of some Microsoft-specific formats such as WMV has sometimes been elusive. Depending on your setup, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. And Web sites that …
PeterIt might sound like a rather strange thing to do, but sending yourself email from the command line can prove extremely handy in a lot of circumstances. For example, I have a script that runs every week on my server that emails me and reminds me to copy the latest backups off that actual machine (in case of hard drive failure).
Now there are certain prerequsites for this process, namely …