PitchDark Honors and Props
Posted by Tim
Ever since the release of Firefox 3.0 I’ve had an outpouring of appreciative and supporting (not to mention help related) emails. I’d like to say thanks to all the faithful users and I apologize for the lack of releases recently (especially on the Thunderbird side).
Furthermore, I’ve received recognition from the internet community:
- editors have selected PitchDark for Fx to be listed on CNET Download.com
- “PitchDark for ThunderBird 2.0.2″ has been tested by the Softpedia labs and found to be completely clean of adware/spyware components
- Mashable.com named PitchDark for Fx one of the The Top 20 Firefox 3.0 Compatible Themes Worth Upgrading For
Anyway, I’ll be settling in and getting to work on updates to both themes (See the PitchDark page for the list of fixes that are pending).
Getting Things Done: Integration of online calendars (GCal with Thunderbird-Lightning, Outlook and Facebook)
Posted by Tim
The plethora of calendars I have to manage was getting to be quite the mess. Trying to schedule events was a danting task requiring lookup in multiple places.
I use Thunderbird (with the Lightning extension) when I’m at home most of the time. When I’m at work we’re required to use the standard Microsoft Outlook. Finally I use Google Calendar and Facebook (events and birthdays) to manage personal events.
Well, I finally sat down and integrated everything.
Thunderbird
Using the extensions Lightning and Provider for Google Calendar, I enabled the ability to view/edit GCal through TB. Follow the instructions by Jonny Sync GCal and Thunderbird.
Outlook
The awesome developers over at Google released a Sync tool for MS Outlook. Download and follow the instructions they provide. You can set whether you want 1-way (GCal to Outlook, or Outlook to GCal) or 2-way.
Some cool guy named VeganBob has created a facebook application called fbCal that facilitates integrating Facebook Events and Facebook Birthdays with Google Calendar (and also Sunbird/Lightning, Outlook, and Apple iCal). Simply add the application (click the big “Create” button), generate your urls and follow the instructions.
FuseCal (via LifeHacker) is a web-based app that can integrate iCal based calendars, but leaves out facebook.
Anyone have better ways to do it?
