Zindus is a new Thunderbird extension which can synchronize your Google Contacts with Thunderbird's Address Book.

Since Thunderbird and Google Contacts uses different fields, Zindus doesn't support importing entire Google Contacts into Thunderbird. Instead, these are the fields that you can safely sync across:

1. Full Name
2. Primary and Second Email address
3. Phone Numbers: Home, Work, Work Fax, Pager, Mobile
4. Instant Messaging (AIM)
5. Company and Title
6. Notes

Currently, mailing lists are not supported.

 

Zindus | Download | Direct Download Link

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Microsoft Office 2007 introduced the revolutionary 'Ribbon' interface to windows.

Though this revamped user interface has been widely praised upon, it has also received some serious criticisms. Especially, the folks like the PC World, accusing the ribbon interface to crowd the work area, making it difficult for laptop users and others, who are still stuck with a low resolution monitor to work with.

Though we love the new Office 2007 interface, we do see that there is a pinch of truth in these accusations. The Ribbon is fat. Now, how do you take the ribbon on a diet?
Read on.

The procedure to make the ribbon slim is stupidly simple. Just double click on any one of the ribbon tabs. The ribbon bar shrinks to show just the tabs and stays in this minimized form until you double click on any tab and maximize it again.

Instead of double clicking, you can also right click the ribbon and select 'Minimize the Ribbon'. This trick works across all products in the Microsoft Office 2007 suite including Outlook 2007.

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Wow!, another Zoho update in the same day! It was just hours before when we announced that you can now login to Zoho using a Google Apps Account. Zoho still continues to amaze us at the speed of rolling out new features.

Within hours, Zoho have rolled out another feature - Importing Google Doc documents into Zoho Writer. This is what you should do.

1. Login to your Google Docs account & choose the documents that you need to export to Zoho.
2. Click on More actions -> Save as HTML (zipped) to your desktop.
3. In Zoho Writer, click on Import -> Import Google Docs, select the zipped file path and click Import.
4. All the Google Docs documents in the zip file will be imported into your Zoho Writer account & will be displayed in the left panel.

In addition to this, Zoho have rolled out other new features like a Equation Editor and exporting to LaTeX. You can read about it here.

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The popular online office suite Zoho, recently announced that the are opening their gates to all Google users. Anyone with a Google account will be able to login to Zoho, without having to register at Zoho. A pretty nifty trick to attract a wide base of customers and not suprisingly this movement was widely appreciated by all.

But what about the Google Apps users?
It seems that they are not left behind either, just that the method to login to Zoho is not just straight forward for them.

Google Apps users, this is what you should do to login to Zoho.

1. Login to your Google Apps domain.
2. Go to Zoho login and select Google Sign-In.
3. Confirm that you want to use your Google Apps account
4. Grant Access to login to Zoho.

Just remember that you need to login to Google Apps before trying to sign into Zoho. Else, Zoho simply assumes that you want to sign-in using a normal Google account.

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Acid2 and Acid3 are two test suites, that check how well modern browsers follow the web standards.

And, you probably have heard that Firefox 3 passes Acid2 test, thanks to the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine used in it. Now, what about Thunderbird 3?

Thunderbird 3 alpha (code named as shredder), released a few days back,  also uses the same Gecko 1.9 rendering engine. So naturally, one would expect to see the same result as Firefox 3, right? Well, you are in for a surprise.

How to perform Acid2 and Acid3 test in Thunderbird 3 Alpha?

1. Launch Thunderbird 3. Select Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Config Editor.
2. Click "I''ll be carefull, I promise!" button.
3. Enter javascript.allow.mailnews into the filter text box and change its value to true.
4. Close the options window.
5. Now select Tools -> Error Console.
6. Enter the following text into the code text box (as a single line, no line breaks) and hit enter. The corresponding page will get loaded into the message display area of Thunderbird.

For Acid2 Test:

var threePane = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1'].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator).getMostRecentWindow("mail:3pane");gBrowser = threePane.document.getElementById("messagepane");gBrowser.loadURI("http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top", null, null);

For Acid3 Test:

var threePane = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1'].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator).getMostRecentWindow("mail:3pane");gBrowser = threePane.document.getElementById("messagepane");gBrowser.loadURI("http://acid3.acidtests.org", null, null);

Result

Acid2: Thunderbird 3 Alpha failed the Acid2 test. Yes Firefox, we know you are laughing. Your cousin just failed. Instead of giving us a laughing smiley we got the below result. Failed!

Acid3: Thunderbird 3 Alpha got a score of 67/100. This however was better than Firefox (61/100) and IE (in which Acid3 was a complete disaster).

 

 

So, Thunderbird3 failed in Acid2 test. Remember that Firefox 3, IE8, Safari had all passed Acid2. In Acid3 test, it got a score that is slightly above other players, but is still not a score to boast about.What does these results prove?

Nothing! Thunderbird 3 has a long way to go and it's still in the embryonic form. There is a lot of work still to be done to make shredder into Thunderbird 3. Cheers to the Mozilla Messaging team for giving us Thunderbird 3 Alpha. (But guys, we really do expect Acid2 and Acid3 compatibility in the Final TB 3.0. Please don't disappoint us :) )

Download Thunderbird 3 Alpha (shredder) here.

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OpenOffice.org have just released the first public beta version of OpenOffice.org v3.0 - a popular open source and free Microsoft Office alternative.
Now, what matters most to the common Joe is that OpenOffice 3 can read and write in the Office 2007 file formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.) out of the box. This version will also be the first one to natively support MAC OSX (in addition to Windows and Linux).
There is a change that will appeal more to Indians. While the rest of the world group numbers in thousands, Indians tend to group number in #,##,##,### format. OO.o 3 now uses this format for numbers if your locale is set to IN. So ten million will be displayed as 1,00,00,000 and not 10,000,000 in India.
Remember that this is a beta release. So don't bother to install on a production machine.

Download OpenOffice 3.0 | Release Notes | Features

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You got a really funny video that you couldn't resist emailing to your friends. But now, that fat video attachment have clogged your Outlook Outbox. You are unable to send the urgent status report to your boss due to this. Moreover, Outlook is teasing you with error messages on trying to stop sending mail or delete the  mail in Outbox. What to do?

Stop biting your nails and read on.

1. In Outlook, select File -> Work Offline.
   
2. Take Outbox and drag the fatso mail to your Drafts folder (or if you have hated this damn mail enough by now, delete it). Once in Drafts folder, you can edit the mail and try to slim it down before attempting to send again.
3. Deselect File -> Work Offline to resume sending and receiving mails.

 

via [Microsoft Outlook Blog]

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Your graphics team have send you a presentation that you need to present to a customer. But instead of the usual .ppt or .pptx file that you are familiar with, this one is a PowerPoint show file (the extension is .pps or .ppsx). When you open it, the sideshow begins automatically in full screen. Now, there is something that you have to modify in this presentation and you have no idea how...
Well, it isn't as difficult as it looks and no you don't have to send another email to the graphics team asking for a ppt file.

Two solutions:

1. Change the extension of the file from pps to ppt. Now it will open in PowerPoint. (Not applicable for Office 2007)
   
2. Open PowerPoint. Select Office Button -> Open and browse to your PowerPoint show file. Make the modifications and then save it as a pptx file.
   

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Here is the challenge. You are a heavy table creator in the Word, Outlook, OOo Write etc but you absolutely hate the interface they provide for creating a table. You are a keyboard junkie and want to create a table without touching the mouse.

Well, here is what you should do.

1. Type +---+---+---+ and hit enter.
   
2. You can see a table popping up with a single row and 3 columns.
   
3. As the number of minus increases, the length of the row increases.
   
4. You can increase the number of columns by adding more "+" signs.
   
5. Hit tab to navigate from one column to another. When you are at the last column, tab creates a new row for you.
   

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