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 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!

For quite some time now, we had machines building various varieties of Spicebird every night. These builds are meant for testing code and localizations. English (US) builds are available for Windows 32 bit, GNU/Linux 32 bit and GNU/Linux 64 bit. Installable language packs and GNU/Linux 32/64 bit localized builds are available for all locales that have been checked into the code repository.

Localizers can test full localized builds on GNU/Linux or language packs applied over English (US) build on Windows. In the later case, the locale switcher extension will be needed.

Happy testing! Please report bugs and suggestions to Spicebird issue tracker.

The upcoming Spicebird 0.7 will support iGoogle applets. You will be able to add iGoogle's Applets to Spicebird's home screen, along with the current Applets. Most of the current applets on iGoogle work on Spicebird.

You can add an applet by dragging its image on the "Add Stuff" page in iGoogle, into the Google Applet in Spicebird. The image on the right shows a Google Maps applet added to Spicebird's home screen.