Diwali

Today is Diwali here in India. The festival of lights.
Check out fire crackers being sold in the make shift shops on the eve.
I did not buy any crackers this year as I am all alone (no firecracker partner lol) and it ain't fun busting crackers alone. Anyway may be I'll have some fun next time. I did get a few candles (2 packets 18 in each) and some sweets & ummm what else did I get ??? Yes I bought three games for my Ps2

(1) Burnout : Revenge
(2) The Warriors
(3) Tony Hawks : American Wasteland

Bacteria !!

I grabbed this photo in my Microbiology Lab. That is a petri dish containing Maconkey's Agar with Ecoli colonies.
This in common language called "culture". When a person is infected by certain pathogen then they are tried to be isolated to make a confirm diagnosis so as to decide the best line of treatment .

Fetch That Mail

Mozilla ThunderBird

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THUNDERBIRD MAIN WINDOW



(1) Fetch Mail
(2) Folders
(3) Connection Status
(4) Address Book
(5) List of Mails in the Folder
(6) Preview of the mail

INTERFACE

ThunderBird now features a sleek, neat & tidy work area and a large number of features(as u can see in the above screenshot). It's pretty easy to work with,
Searching mail is a breeze just as in Gmail or Yahoo. Just type it in the search box and " Hey Presto U've got it ! "
Apart from the normal functions it features Labels (Yeah , just like in Gmail) sadly you can't create any new ones(gotta work with the predefined ones).
ThunderBird Supports Themes , it simply means that you are no longer stuck to the boaring interface.

COMPOSING


ThunderBird features pretty basic features (as one would expect). What users would appericiate is Email suggestion as you type, from the Address Book.



SWITCH-OVER (Uh! Why¿)

Most of you (guess excepting a few...errrr.leave it) have email accounts and more than 60 percent of you use an Email Client(so....?) . If I were to say "Quit your Clients and Adopt ThunderBird" you'd definatively be aroused to ask "Why ?"

Privacy

The Most prime concern these days seems Privacy. I dunno whom to thank the media, the viruses or the spam..anyway... ThunderBird seems to have it all undercontrol.
It's Adaptive Spam filters ensure that all the spam goes where they rightly belong and also that you need not download any addons. Spam fighting is very well inbuilt in it. Apart from that , easy to create 'n use rules add the iceing on the cake(or the flag on the mountain..whatever)
ThunderBird integrated well with PGP and GnuPG as well. Ofcouse you need to download Them seprately.

RSS READER

Now there's no need for a seprate Rss reader your mail client does that for you and it does it in a style. It's a breeze (as walk in the park,or talk in the back or......Shutup!) to use it.

ADDRESS BOOK


I particulary like the Address Book functionality of ThunderBird. One can easily import address book from Outlook or any supported file format. Apart from that the Address Book is pretty much similar to Outlook.

MESSAGE GROUPING


Another nifty feature let's u group messages. It Neatly labels them and arranges in folders.

EXTENSIONS

If all of this doesn't answer your appetite then there are extensions to the rescue. Basically extensions are notting but Plugins that increase the functionality of the program. There are tons (literally) available on the net.

WHAT'S NOT COOL

Every-one has got both something good & Bad. So does ThunderBird.
If you are looking for Email Client only then ThunderBird's For you but if you depend heavily on reminders , scheduling , appointments etc the arrow turns the other wayround. Calander Project (an extension) can be downloaded but it's has very limited functionality.

So If you are looking for a EMAIL CLIENT and ThunderBird suits you then Go Get It.

Thankyou for reading the posting
Looking for your Comments & Creative Suggestions
With Warm Regards

Anurag Singh


For more Information please visit :
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird