Reporting from Spicebird blog,
Spicebird is a collaboration client that provides integrated access to email, contacts, calendaring and instant messaging in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while retaining all the advantages of a desktop application. The application is based on projects like Thunderbird, Lightning and Telepathy and adds more functionality and integration among its components.
This release of Spicebird adds the following functionality:
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Chat with friends on services like Yahoo, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and Jabber
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Add iGoogle Gadgets to Spicebird
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Disable the applications that are unused
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Access Google calendar
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Experimental support for managing blogs
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Available in more than 10 languages
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Basic set of add-ons
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Import data from Thunderbird, Outlook and Outlook Express
For a detailed description of this release, see the release notes.
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