One thing many people have complained about in regards to Mozilla Thunderbird is unlike Outlook, it does not have a calendar. Today on CyberNet News I came across this entry: Mozilla Sunbird And Lightning 0.3 RC1 Available. Mozilla Sunbird is a standalone calendar application where as Lightning is a Thunderbird Extension. While I have not yet had a chance to a look at Sunbird, I have installed and started briefly using Lightning. Here are some of the features: Adds a ‘Calendar’ Menu option which allows you to view your calendar in your message and preview panes. Adds Lightning pane in…

In response to my recent Browser Smörgåsbord entry, some folks have asked for a link to get Minefield (Firefox 3.0a1). It took some hunting on the Mozilla FTP server but here is the link to folder with the latest nightly of Minefield: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ Please keep in mind Minefield is still in early development and may not be very stable (this may have improved since the previous nightly I had was from sometime in August).