Comments on: First look to Spicebird 0.4 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/01/first-look-to-spicebird-04/ Your source for Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, SeaMonkey news, tips and more. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:18:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: tim http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/01/first-look-to-spicebird-04/#comment-57084 tim Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:21:42 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/01/first-look-to-spicebird-04/#comment-57084 lefty.crupps, it only supports .ics and .csv. lefty.crupps, it only supports .ics and .csv.

]]> By: tim http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/01/first-look-to-spicebird-04/#comment-57080 tim Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:52:46 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/01/first-look-to-spicebird-04/#comment-57080 Great. That sounds like an alternative to Evolution. I liked Evolution because of its speed but it was experiencing a very slow development. I've just tested SpiceBird and I'm really impressed. There are some things that are missing or not done yet like synchronizing my contacts and appointments with a server. The even bigger problem is that it does not integrate well in Gnome in some cases. For instance, you can access your tasks from the clock applet in Evolution. I haven't found out yet how to do this with SpiceBird. It's not possible to minimize SpiceBird to tray but I hope there will be an extension for this. The reason why I switched to Evolution were speed, memory usage, features (integrated organizer, integration in Gnome, etc.). Evolution has a very low memory usage in comparison with Mozilla Thunderbird (I was having about 200 feeds and 5 e-mail accounts) and it's much faster. I've tested SpiceBird with a local IMAP server (which is just being used for testing purposes) with a folder containing about 3000 e-mails (feed items). The speed was very incredible. Even faster than Evolution took getting the headers. Another big problem of SpiceBird is that it loads many features the user might not be use. There's only one feature (the instant messenger) which can be disabled. The instant messenger is very useful but at the moment I still prefer Pidgin because of its features, extendability and support for multiple protocols. I don't need the integrated feed reader as I'll read the feeds over my IMAP server. It's also very nice that Spicebird is OpenSource (otherwise I wouldn't have tested it) Anyway, all in all SpiceBird is a great application and I will use it as soon as it's in a usable status and I've figured out how to import all the data from Evolution. By the way, thank you very much for your interesting review! Great. That sounds like an alternative to Evolution. I liked Evolution because of its speed but it was experiencing a very slow development. I’ve just tested SpiceBird and I’m really impressed. There are some things that are missing or not done yet like synchronizing my contacts and appointments with a server. The even bigger problem is that it does not integrate well in Gnome in some cases. For instance, you can access your tasks from the clock applet in Evolution. I haven’t found out yet how to do this with SpiceBird. It’s not possible to minimize SpiceBird to tray but I hope there will be an extension for this. The reason why I switched to Evolution were speed, memory usage, features (integrated organizer, integration in Gnome, etc.). Evolution has a very low memory usage in comparison with Mozilla Thunderbird (I was having about 200 feeds and 5 e-mail accounts) and it’s much faster. I’ve tested SpiceBird with a local IMAP server (which is just being used for testing purposes) with a folder containing about 3000 e-mails (feed items). The speed was very incredible. Even faster than Evolution took getting the headers. Another big problem of SpiceBird is that it loads many features the user might not be use. There’s only one feature (the instant messenger) which can be disabled. The instant messenger is very useful but at the moment I still prefer Pidgin because of its features, extendability and support for multiple protocols. I don’t need the integrated feed reader as I’ll read the feeds over my IMAP server. It’s also very nice that Spicebird is OpenSource (otherwise I wouldn’t have tested it)
Anyway, all in all SpiceBird is a great application and I will use it as soon as it’s in a usable status and I’ve figured out how to import all the data from Evolution.

By the way, thank you very much for your interesting review!

]]> By: lefty.crupps http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/01/first-look-to-spicebird-04/#comment-57079 lefty.crupps Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:09:05 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/01/first-look-to-spicebird-04/#comment-57079 How about a calendar? Does it support *.vfb or *.ifb files on a newtowk share for Free/Busy? that is the key, the missing component in too many email apps; only KMail and Outlook have this that I know of, making every Windows user at my office stuck with Outlook... How about a calendar? Does it support *.vfb or *.ifb files on a newtowk share for Free/Busy? that is the key, the missing component in too many email apps; only KMail and Outlook have this that I know of, making every Windows user at my office stuck with Outlook…

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