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:

• 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

For a detailed description of this release, see the release notes.

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