CalendarReview

Five months after the 0.7 release the 0.8 release is out and is now available via AMO and the Calendar Project website .

Zdnet reports that the Mozilla Foundation will finally integrate the Lightning calendar to its latest incarnation of open-source e-mail client, Thunderbird 3.0. Users can also expect improved search.Thunderbird 3.0 is due to ship by the end of the year with a more comprehensive search feature and official integration of the Lightning calendar add-on, said David Ascher, chief executive of the newly named Mozilla Messaging subsidiary. The first alpha release will come sooner, though, for those who want to test the software.

“I’m expecting we’ll have some public releases probably within three months,” Ascher said.

This extension allows Sunbird and Lightning to read and write events to a Google Calendar.

Techbuzz describes how to integrate Google calendar into Thunderbird.

Thunderbird is undoubtedly the best email client around, but the only thing missing out of it is a simple calendar. As a fulltime blogger, Calendar means productivity for me. I was really disappointed when Thunderbird 2 was released without the calendar functionality. I won’t blame Mozilla for that, they’ve already built a calendar app called Sunbird, but having a separate app for calendar isn’t a great deal for me, I wanted a calendar inside Thunderbird.

GCALDaemon is an OS-independent Java program that offers two-way synchronization between Google Calendar and various iCalalendar compatible calendar applications. GCALDaemon is primarily designed as a calendar synchronizer but it can also be used as a Gmail notifier, Gmail contact importer and RSS feed converter.

You can replace the default page displayed in the message pane with whatever HTML document you want, so make it something useful. If you happen to use Google’s Calendar, you can share your calendar as an HTML page. Google also offers further customization for use in iframes so you can embed it on your web site or whatever.

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