Category Archives: Software

How To: Thunderbird (Part 3) – Saved Search

By Bish | Published: 15/05/2006 – 20:07 | Posted in How To, Internet, Software | Comments (0)

Saved Search is a feature introduced back in version 0.9 of Thunderbird and offers further customisation and can increase productivity. Much the same as Smart Folders in Outlook, Saved Search allows you to really customise your Thunderbird experience by saving searches that you regularly do. Drilling down to the finest details and save these for future use, the real advantage of this system is they work in the same way as individual folders that you set up, yet keep the mail in the Inbox or original folder.

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Shuttle Launches?

By Bish | Published: 15/05/2006 – 18:49 | Posted in News, Software, Web, Wordpress | Comments (0)

Well almost, you may remember a while back I talked about a complete redesign of the Wordpress admin panel that has been codenamed ‘Shuttle‘. The team seem to have been working on this for ever and from the pictures it’s gonna be a big improvement on the standard set up at the moment. The hard work, sweat and toil appears to have paid off and the design is now (Photoshop) complete, though my understanding is that there is still some way to go implementing the code. Check out the pictures on Khaled’s Broken Kode.

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How To: Thunderbird (Part 2) – Message Filters

By Bish | Published: 11/05/2006 – 20:42 | Posted in How To, Software | Comments (0)

In part 2 of this thrilling (well at least helpful?) series on Thunderbird I am going to cover Message filters. These should be the stable diet of any discerning person who receives more than a couple emails a day, hell I seem to get 10x that in spam – but that’s for another day.

Filtering is an effective way to manage your email. Whether separating your work email from your personal mail, your eBay messages from your (genuine) bank messages or your DVD rentals from your squash club newsletter, filters can be used to manage your time more effectively. By setting up message filters in Thunderbird you can automatically organise, file and sort your incoming mail in many different ways. Fortunately filters are also quick and easy to setup in Thunderbird.

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How To: Thunderbird (Part 1) – Basics

By Bish | Published: 08/05/2006 – 22:26 | Posted in How To, Software | Comments (0)

This is gonna be the start of a series of posts on making the most of the quality, open source, email client, Thunderbird. Brought to you by Mozilla, the people behind the now cult browser Firefox, Thunderbird is lighter and faster than many other mail clients and is fast approaching the feature list of Outlook. Similar in their approach to Firefox, the Mozilla team have implemented the Extensions system for Thunderbird allowing users to customise Thunderbird’s appearance and features, both easily and quickly. This approach to features prevents much of the ‘app bloat’ found with recent versions of Outlook, its generally less resource intensive and yet many of the extensible features are there should you wish to implement them.

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F.E.A.R Expansion Pack Announced

By Bish | Published: 07/05/2006 – 18:43 | Posted in Gaming, News, Quick, Software | Comments (0)

Fear, probably my favourite game of the year that opened my eyes to what can be achieved with what was a stale genre, has had an expansion pack announced by Sierra Entertainment. ‘Extraction Point’ is thought to logically pick up where the original finished and is expected to be a link to a sequel that is surely going to follow. New locations, weapons and enemies….. my mouth is watering already. Bring on the previews at E3!