Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on February 19, 2008 by CyberNet.

Back in September 2007 Mozilla decided to break their email client, called Thunderbird, away from the browser and create a separate subsidiary for it. Up until now the new subsidiary has been called MailCo, but today it officially received the name of Mozilla Messaging. I believe the new name of the subsidiary is a good indication that Thunderbird will evolve into more than just an email application.

David Ascher, the CEO of Mozilla Messaging, has shed some light on the direction that the new subsidiary will be going as they push forward. In Thunderbird 3 they hope to provide an integrated calendar based on the Lightning add-on, add better search capabilities, easier configuration, and enhance the user interface. So it looks like the project might still be alive after all, but what’s expected of Thunderbird 3 makes it sound like it should really be called Thunderbird 2.5.

From the sounds of it the future of Thunderbird will not revolve solely around email. They want to expand into instant messaging, SMS, and possibly even VoIP:

It is worthwhile considering what the right user experience could be for someone using multiple email addresses, multiple instant messaging systems, IRC, reading and writing on blogs, using VoIP, SMS, and the like. What parts of those interactions make sense to integrate, and where? I don’t believe that stuffing all of those communication models inside of one application is the right answer.

We’ll be keeping a close eye on Mozilla Messaging as they move forward, and will definitely watch for improvements to Thunderbird.

David Ascher’s Blog [via Webware]

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This article was written on January 05, 2007 by CyberNet.

There are all kinds of big announcements today as far as statistics services go! First off, Ashley wrote about a deal the other day between Performancing and PayPerPost that involved the acquisition of Performancing’s Metrics package (statistics tracking) by PayPerPost. We had used Performancing’s statistics service at one point but it seemed like there was too much downtime in their graphs to get an accurate representation of your traffic. In one hour we would have received a few hundred visitors, but in the next hour it would say that we had no visitors. Google Analytics seems to do that sometimes as well, but they often clear themselves up after 12-hours or so.

Setting aside our experience with the service does still leave us with an interesting topic. Both Performancing and PayPerPost announced today that they were not going to go through with the acquisition. Actually, it is kinda funny because both companies kinda made it sound like it was their own decision…just like a high-school breakup between a boyfriend and a girlfriend:

PayPerPost’s response:

After much discussion and heartache we have decided to walk away from the Performancing deal. We listened to our Posties and other Metrics users, dug into the Metrics platform and regretfully found that it wasn’t what we were looking for right now.

Performancing’s response:

After much discussion, we’ve decided that the deal proposed by PayPerPost just isn’t right for us or our community.

So is this good or bad? I actually think it is good because Performancing is going to give their Metrics package over to the community and make it Open Source. By doing that I think there are a lot of features that people will be able to add to it so that it is even better, and it will probably become something that individual site owners could host on their own servers as a personal means to keeping track of stats.

In the mean time PayPerPost says that they are off to find another analytics solution. Now that Performancing Metrics will be getting closing up shop, they are recommending that users switch to the just released Feedburner Statistics. For being free I think that these stats are really great and it looks as though they update them every 30 minutes to an hour (I’m estimating, but that seems about right). Just like in the feeds though, you can see a small amount of your most recent hits telling you where a visitor is from, what article they are viewing, and what site they came from. After the first 30 minutes these are the different stats from our site:

Once you enable the stat tracking service on Feedburner it will immediately start to monitor for traffic if you have the FeedFlare or Feedburner Advertisements installed on your site, otherwise they will provide the necessary script you need to add for the statistics tracking to begin. They have made it so simple and offer such a great service (at no cost) that I think this is sure to be a hit. Nice job Feedburner! I have no doubt that you will begin gathering the Performancing Metrics users that are looking for an easy-to-use statistics package that is more geared towards blogs.

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This article was written on October 10, 2006 by CyberNet.

Time Saving Tuesday

Everyone hates having to provide their email address to sites because they just aren’t sure what kind of spam they’ll receive. That’s why we have spam filters but you know those don’t always work (GMail does do a pretty amazing job though).

I have a few different sites that I am going to tell you about that all offer temporary email addresses for you to use. Each one operates in a different way which means you might find one that you like more than the others.

–Dodge It (homepage)–

Dodge It is close to my favorite solution out of the three that I have listed. There is no setup process that you need to go through before hand…just send the email to any address that you want.

There is no password protection or security features which is something you should keep in mind. You can view almost any email address simply by typing it into the homepage. I say almost because users can choose to make a small donation and in return they can get a password protected account. For those RSS junkies out there you can subscribe to any address’s Inbox!

It is also important to note that you cannot delete emails that you receive at any address. They will automatically delete any emails after 7-days, which can be a little long for most people.

–Mail Expire (homepage)–

Mail Expire also has a unique approach to spam because they let you utilize your current email address without exposing it to spammers. All you have to do is enter in your current email address and how long you want the account to stay open. It also has a field for a reminder so that every time you receive an email it will remind you what the account was created for.

After you fill in all of the fields you just have to hit the “go” button and it will generate your temporary email address for you to use. Then just activate the account with the verification email that they send.

–Temporary Inbox (homepage)–

Temporary Inbox is no doubt the coolest solution out of the three. It is kind of a combination of the above two sites and brings the best features into one solution. You can have it randomly generate your email address or you can just start sending email to any account. Then, just like Dodge It, you can pull up the email for accounts that you never even bothered to setup. They will delete your emails after 6 hours so don’t expect them to sit there forever but they do also let you manually delete them if you choose.

The most unique thing about Temporary Inbox is the Firefox extension that they have available. You can pretty much do everything right from your toolbar so that you save yourself a few steps.

–Overview–

Even though all of the different email companies offer spam protection you should still make an effort to keep your inbox clean. I’m sure most of you probably use GMail as your primary email address and have a Hotmail or Yahoo account specifically designed to collect your spam. That’s another good solution but I actually think it is quicker to access the temporary email addresses than it is to log into an account to retrieve an email.

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This article was written on May 29, 2008 by CyberNet.

Zoho has just added a feature to Zoho Writer that while may not seem like anything big, will be really helpful to a select group of people. What they’ve done is added the option for users to import documents from Google Docs to Zoho Writer. The group of people who this will be really helpful to is those who started using Google Documents at one point or another but now use Zoho. Additionally, for those people who collaborate with group members on a document using Google Docs, but regularly use Zoho Writer, they can import the work they’ve done.

The process is simple, just follow these steps:

• Log in to Google Docs and check the Documents you want to import to Zoho
  
• Click “More Actions” and then select “Save as HTML (zipped)” – and save the file
• Log-in to Zoho Writer then click Import > Import Google Docs
• Find the zipped file and click Import and with one click, all of the Google Doc documents that were in the zipped file will be impored into your Zoho Writer account where you’ll be able to access and edit them.

Nice, huh? Zoho continues to make it super simple to use their applications and so it’s easy to understand why PCWorld named them one of the “100 Best Products of 2008.” They shared this honor with other products like the Apple iPhone, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Digg, Flickr, Hulu, Microsoft Office 2007, Firefox 3, Nintendo Wii, and more. Checkout the complete list here.

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This article was written on November 10, 2006 by CyberNet.

The new Office 2007 user interface can be quite overwhelming for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet. There is an easy way, however, to see what’s new and that is with the Office 2007 UI Bible. Jensen Harris worked on the new interface and he made that post to be a reference to anyone looking for details on the new UI elements.

It breaks down over 200 posts that he has made since September into categories so that you can quickly skip to the content you want. I found it to be quite interesting going through to see how things have evolved over time. Even though I have been an Office 2007 Beta 2 user for quite awhile there were still some things that I forgot the software offered. I recommend that everyone takes look at the post because there has got to be at least one thing that you’ll find interesting.

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