Spicebird
Encyclopedia
Spicebird is a personal information manager
based on Mozilla Thunderbird
's code developed by an Indian company called Synovel. It is free and open source software.
It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging
. It can be used for personal or office use to access your email, calendar information and various instant messaging (or chat) accounts. The integrated instant messenger can connect to GTalk, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, XMPP and various other servers and protocols. It has a dashboard that provides gadgets for showing information such as new emails, schedule for the day and many more. iGoogle
gadgets can also be added to the dashboard.
Personal information manager
A personal information manager is a type of application software that functions as a personal organizer. The acronym PIM is now, more commonly, used in reference to Personal information management as a field of study...
based on Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser...
's code developed by an Indian company called Synovel. It is free and open source software.
It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging
Instant messaging
Instant Messaging is a form of real-time direct text-based chatting communication in push mode between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared clients. The user's text is conveyed over a network, such as the Internet...
. It can be used for personal or office use to access your email, calendar information and various instant messaging (or chat) accounts. The integrated instant messenger can connect to GTalk, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, XMPP and various other servers and protocols. It has a dashboard that provides gadgets for showing information such as new emails, schedule for the day and many more. iGoogle
IGoogle
iGoogle , a service of Google, is a customizable Ajax-based startpage or personal web portal . Google originally launched the service in May 2005...
gadgets can also be added to the dashboard.
External links
Reviews
- First look to Spicebird 0.4 - mozillalinks.org
- Spicebird Offers a Flavorful Way to Integrate Your E-mail, Calendar and Chat - blog.wired.com
- Spicebird: Email, Calendar, IM, RSS, and More - cybernetnews.com
- Spicebird Beta Moves Thunderbird Closer to Outlook Territory - lifehacker.com
- Czech Spicebird review - root.cz