Combining GCal, Lightning and Thunderbird

The Ubuntu Forums has a detailed thread that shows how you can get the most out of Thunderbird by using the Lightning extension and Google Calendar. Click here for the article.

While this is on a Linux forum, the instructions should work in Windows, too.

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Move Outlook files into Thunderbird

Lifehacker reports on a new extension that lets you move your Outlook PST files into Thunderbird.

Thunderbird gets beta of Spicebird to be like Outlook

Lifehacker covers the new Spicebird attempt to give Thunderbird all the functions of Microsoft Outlook.

The article is here.