Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Mozilla, Open Source

Mozilla has released version 0.9 of Sunbird, its calendar application. The Lightning calender extension for the Thunderbird email client has also been updated. There’s a huge list of changes under the hood, but here are some of the most noticeable:

• Calendar views have been overhauled
• A progress indicator shows up when you’re reloading a remote calendar
• Multi-day events now have visual indicators showing that they’re connected
• You can now show the today pane in the tasks mode

Memory use has also been improved and the application is reportedly more stable. Lightning 0.9 is the last version designed for use with Thunderbird 2. Future development will focus on integrating the calendar extension with Thunderbird 3.

Sunbird and Lightning are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

[via Mozilla Links]

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Filed under: Business, Windows, Macintosh, Office, Productivity, Web services, Freeware

Thanks Microsoft. No seriously, thanks. As far as I have the ability to tell, the new .docx default document format in MS Word 2007 and 2008 (for Mac) does nothing to make my life easier, but has certainly made it more of a pain. Even though my office predominantly uses Office 2003, our users are starting to receive documents saved in the newer .docx format, and are unable to open or edit them. Since I happen to be running Office 2007 and 2008 on my machine (it’s a Mac with VMWare Fusion for running Windows), I get to play the role of “mister file converter”.

Well, no longer.

Thanks to our pals over at TUAW, I have the ability to now redirect my office mates to Zamzar’s free on the internet file converter. We’ve written about Zamzar before, but this is the first I had heard that it supports Office file formats.

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