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Lightning 1.0 Beta 2 Release Candidate 1 is available

Rutger — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:14:30 +0000

Candidate builds for Lightning 1.0 beta2 in 32 languages are available as of now for:

A corresponding build of the Provider for Google Calendar is also available at those locations.

The candidate builds will be available for testing for up to 2 weeks. We want to release the final Lightning 1.0b2 together with Thunderbird 3.1, so we may choose to shorten this period by a few days

Lifehacker: Five Best Calendar Applications

Rutger — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:37:52 +0000

This is an oldy but still valid: Lifehackers calendar poll

Nothing’s more important to your productivity arsenal than a solid scheduling tool, and considering so much of what we do happens at the computer, a good calendar application is just the thing to bring order to your agenda. On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite calendar application, and today we’re back with the five most popular answers. Keep reading for a detailed look at the top five and to cast your vote for the calendar tool you like best.

Lightning 0.8 and Sunbird 0.8 are out

Rutger — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:51:50 +0000

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

Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client finally gets calendar

Rutger — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:07:16 +0000

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.

Provider for Google Calendar

Rutger — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:31:20 +0000

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

How to Integrate Calendar in Thunderbird and Sync with Google Calendar

Rutger — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:10:00 +0000

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 syncs Google Calendar and ThunderBird/Sunbird

Rutger — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:08:36 +0000

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.

Put Google Calendar in Thunderbird

Rutger — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:37:58 +0000

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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