Spicebird Newsletter

The first stable version of Spicebird (0.8) is now released.
Spicebird is an email and collaboration application built on top of various other open source software, mainly the Mozilla Platform and Thunderbird.

This release brings in all the new features of Thunderbird and other improvements - indexed search, theming support (Personas), more memory efficient and much more stable.

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Spicebird is a collaboration client that provides integrated access to email, contacts, calendaring and instant messaging in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while retaining all the advantages of a desktop application. The application is based on projects like Thunderbird, Lightning and Telepathy and adds more functionality and integration among its components.

This release is a bug fix release with many small features additions. Changes include launch fixes, memory fixes, better support for non-English text, more chat preferences and more add-ons.

For a detailed description of this release, see the release notes.

Get Spicebird!

Spicebird is a collaboration client that provides integrated access to email, contacts, calendaring and instant messaging in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while retaining all the advantages of a desktop application. The application is based on projects like Thunderbird, Lightning and Telepathy and adds more functionality and integration among its components.

This release of Spicebird adds the following functionality:

• Chat with friends on services like Yahoo, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and Jabber
• Add iGoogle Gadgets to Spicebird
• Disable the applications that are unused
• Access Google calendar
• Experimental support for managing blogs
• Available in more than 10 languages
• Basic set of add-ons
• Import data from Thunderbird, Outlook and Outlook Express

For a detailed description of this release, see the release notes.

Get Spicebird!