Download Spicebird 0.7 Beta

Synovel Technologies has released a new beta release of Spicebird. Spicebird is a so-called ‘open source collaboration suite’ and can be used for e-mailing, has a calendar that can also be shared with others and messages can be sent via instant messaging. It’s basically a combination of Thunderbird, Sunbird and Xmpp4moz, plus some self-developed extras.

Since the previous beta release, which carried version number 0.4, some changes have been made. For example, Google Gadgets can now be added, there is a new instant messaging framework called Telepathy and components of the program that are not used can be disabled. Below are the most important innovations:

This release of Spicebird adds the following functionality:

• Chat with friends on services like Yahoo, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and Jabber
• Add iGoogle Gadgets to Spicebird
• Disable the applications that are unused
• Access Google calendar
• Experimental support for managing blogs
• Available in more than 10 languages
• Basic set of add-ons
• Import data from Thunderbird, Outlook and Outlook Express

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