Features

• Full-Featured Email: Simple to use, powerful, and customizable, Thunderbird is a full-featured email application. Thunderbird supports IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting. Easily import your existing email accounts and messages. Built-in RSS capabilities, powerful quick search, spell check as you type, global inbox, deleting attachments and advanced message filtering round out Thunderbird's modern feature set.
• Junk Mail Filters: Each email you receive passes through Thunderbird's leading-edge junk mail filters. Each time you mark messages as spam, Thunderbird improves its filtering so you can spend more time reading the mail that matters. Thunderbird will also use your mail provider's spam filters to keep junk mail out of your inbox.
• Anti-Phishing Protection: Thunderbird protects you from increasingly common email scams—also known as “phishing”—which try to fool you into handing over your passwords and other personal information. Thunderbird will tell you when it thinks a message might be a scam.
• Advanced Security: Thunderbird provides enterprise and government grade security features including S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, support for certificates and security devices. Attachments are never run without your express permission, protecting you from many worms and viruses.
• Automatic Updates: The new Software Update feature makes it easy to get the latest security and feature updates to Thunderbird. Thunderbird automatically downloads these small updates in the background and prompts you when they are ready to be installed.
• Customize Thunderbird: Select new button controls for your toolbars, install extensions to add new features, or change the look of your browser with themes—the way Thunderbird looks and works is under your control.

Download

• http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

New features

List from blender3d.org :: Blender 2.40

• Character Animation
• Dependency Graph
• Rigging
• Inverse Kinematics (With support from Googles Summer of Code – Blender's IK system was fully reworked. Not only did it become much faster, but it now supports Rotation Limits and Degrees of Freedom, Tree-IK, and IK Target Rotation.)
• Skin Weighting
• Armature Display
• Stride Support
• Shape Keys
• Drivers
• Animation Curve Interpolation
• Actions and NLA
• Particles and Physics simulation
• Fluid Simulation (The second of the Google Summer of Code projects that made it in our release is the exciting Fluid Simulator, allowing to animate a physical correct flow of any fluid type.)
• Particle Guides and distribution
• Hair strand rendering
• Rigid Body
• Modifier Stack
• Subdivide and Loop tools
• Boolean Operations (This Google Summer of Code project delivered us a full new and much better library for intersecting Mesh models. Main target was to generate new models with the least amount of new faces, with regular and pleasant subdivisions.)
• Mesh Ripping
• UV & Image Editing
• Unicode 3D Fonts
• Radial Blend Texture
• Sampling and Filtering
• Python Scripting (New or rewritten modules were added: Mesh, Armature, Key, and Mathutils.)
• Improvements in the UI include: New Lamp drawing types, new Object-center drawing, New Camera view drawing and Passepartout view, Easier window merging, new Toolbox layout, improved Text button, and so on... check the article linked above for a full overview!

It features chat, telephony and video !

The current version offers a much better quality - both sound and video - than Skype...

OpenWengo is build upon standard protocols (SIP).

Download it now!

Link: OpenWengo

Links

• Download Firefox 1.5 Now !
• Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Notes
• Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Released - MozillaZine Talkback

• Download Firefox 1.0.7 Now !
• Download Thunderbird 1.0.7 Now !

Results : Mozilla Firefox in now in front of Internet Explorer ! Last year, Internet Explorer had a 75% share on this site.

What a good news !

The last Mozilla Firefox figures for Europe

• Firefox market share in Europe: Xiti strikes back - Standblog

We've got new code from this program, and we've gained new developers.

From the original 10 projects, 9 have succeeded and 1 has failed.

Here are some highlights:

New software

FinalTouch

Final Touch is a GPLed image manipulation tool for Windows developed by Noemi Tojzan.

It features an user friendly GUI, automatic filtering with high quality processing, image adjustments and enhancement tools, special effects and video processing

Sneaky Snakes

The Sneaky Snakes is a new addictive Snake game written in Python by Michael Rybak. It's actually running on Windows, Linux and MacOSX.

Xaze

Xaze is a space shooter game for Windows and Linux written by Joseph Gentle

BingleBall

BingleBall is an action and strategy game written by Ethan Jucovy.

New Distribution

MacLibre

MacLibre is an Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X developed by François Perche.

It is to Macintosh what WinLibre is to Windows.

WinLibre internals

This 4 projects are written in Python. Their code base will be soon merged in order to become one of the next WinLibre release.

Control Center

The control center, written by Joey Freund, will become the WinLibre's user interface. It features: launch each of WinLibre’s programs, display news items from WinLibre’s website, launch the updater tool, easy access to various web services such as Wikipedia, Google and more...

Updater

The WinLibre updater allows reliable and painless update of existing installations. It's written by Gil Tal.

Manatee

It's a python rewrite of the actual WinLibre setup coded by Bohdan Vlasyuk.

Python Rewrite

It's a python rewrite of the actual WinLibre setup coded by Bertrand Cachet

Failed

PyCD

PyCD was intended to be an open source graphical interface to cdrecord.

OpenOffice.org 2.0 sports a redesigned interface and better interoperability with other file formats, including Microsoft Office. A new database module has been added, as has support for the OASIS OpenDocument XML file format.

Final Touch is an image manipulation tool for Windows, developped by Noemi Tojzan for WinLibre sponsored by the Google Summer of Code program.

It provides a user friendly GUI, automatic filtering, high precission processing and some unique filter equations.

First Screen Shot

Links

• More info on Final Touch...
• Download Final Touch Now

• Download Firefox 1.0.6 Now !
• Download Thunderbird 1.0.6 Now !