{"id":12044,"date":"2007-12-04T09:26:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T16:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/12\/04\/lightning-for-thunderbird.html"},"modified":"2007-12-04T09:26:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T16:26:19","slug":"lightning_for_thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/lightning_for_thunderbird.html","title":{"rendered":"Lightning for Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chirographum.com\/weblog\/?p=3276\" target=\"_blank\">Steve<\/a> points out a new add-on for Thunderbird, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lightning<\/a>, which adds calendaring capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a local client-based calendar, and are using Thunderbird as a local e-mail client, it might be something worth looking at.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>You may prefer <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\/lightning\/\"><strong>Lightning<\/strong><\/a><strong> if&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> you send or receive meeting invitations via email<\/li>\n<li> you already use Mozilla Thunderbird for email<\/li>\n<li> you customize your applications with add-ons (such as extensions or themes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mozilla also has a separate calendar client, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\/sunbird\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sunbird<\/a>, but I&#8217;d think something integrated into a single app would be keen.&nbsp; (&#8220;People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like,&#8221; as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wist.info\/l\/lincoln_president_abraham\/017713.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln said<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(For myself, I make use of Google Calendar, and Google Mail, which are also joined at the hip.&nbsp; I have pretty much persistent online capability, between my notebook and my Blackberry, so having something client-based isn&#8217;t as important, but if I didn&#8217;t, I would certainly consider this.)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve points out a new add-on for Thunderbird, Lightning, which adds calendaring capabilities. 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