Mozilla Thunderbird is not one of the applications that I would consider outstanding from a vanilla installation. What make Thunderbird exceptional is its ability to have extensions; to make the program be more than what it is. To have functions that it wouldn’t normally have…

This is where you can think of third-party providers for developing and supporting Thunderbird in making it so extremely popular with its users.

Up to about two months ago I’ve been struggling with the idea of converting off of Thunderbird onto something else. It’s difficult to come to a decision to switch to different software package after you’ve been using something for so long and have become so accustomed to using.

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The current technology trends dictate that hard drive storage for PCs keep growing. Hard drive space continues to grow at an exponential rate while the price of the hard drives continue to drop.

When I hear individuals talking about purchasing a new PC, and they give me the specifications about the processor, memory and hard drive space; I really start wondering if this individual understands what they’re really saying.

Newer desktop machines are being purchased with larger hard drives, somewhere in the neighborhood of 750 to 1 TB of hard drive space available. And while this may be fine and dandy, this brings up the subject of how does this information get backed up and are people thinking about this when their systems are purchased?

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Ladies and gentlemen, I travel in small circles looking for bits of technology here and there, and while I try to find new and interesting stuff, it’s rare that I find outrageous and shocking things that just make me go, DAMN!

I’ve my website, and I spread the things that I think are interesting. I beta test for programmers, I offer suggestions to websites distributing software to users and I offer my opinions on how to do things better to a lot of people; basically, I consult- for free. [smiling]

I write from time to time about my own experiences with tech support, hardware or software products, and issues, as I did with PhraseExpress. But I wasn’t prepared to see the words that I wrote to them, to be duplicated word for word, on an another website, to soothe another pissed off PhraseExpress customer/reviewer.

What follows next, is AWESOME… This is some good stuff…

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iPhone users have enjoyed Hootsuite for a while, but the team of developers at Hootsuite have been nice enough to bring it to Android.

Hootsuite integrates, social networking and communications in to one place, making it easier to manage your accounts. And in my opinion has done a great job by recently adding Facebook and linkedin.

Being able to review all your incoming communications in to one spot makes things easier and more entertaining.

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I couple of weeks ago, I did a review on the latest version of Paperport v12 Professional. I was reviewing the product as anyone would if they were looking to apply it in the corporate environment or at home; what did it do? How did it do it and was it easy enough to use.

During the process of reviewing and dissecting the program, going through it’s various functions, I thought about all the programs I’ve ever used and does what Paperport does… With everything that Paperport does, could it be replaced it something else- an alternative?

The answer is YES.

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Windows Live Writer is due an update, but the Windows Live Writer team hasn’t announced any time frames as to when we might see the new version.

And while Windows Live Writer 2009 is a great program for blogging, and especially the use of using themes as you’re composing the post, some times the program doesn’t do as you expected and the themes are all messed up, or the theme your using with Windows Live Writer is not compatible.

So to help others adjust on the fly, here’s some information on how to deal with it.

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Windows Live Writer has just been handed a plug-in to allow the posting to Posterous. It just hit the web about 4 hours ago.

Scott Lovegrove created the plug-in and 5 lucky people were able to download and test the functionality. It think this will be widely used.

At the time of this post, the plug-in is not listed in the Windows Live Writer Gallery, but I’d suspect it’ll be there soon.

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I was working on some stuff the other day; it was completely boring and monotonous, but I had to grab information from a webpage […] 3 pieces of it and then paste it in to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

The constant switching back and forth was insane.

I wasn’t able to do all this automatically [hands off], but I made it a lot easier.

I wrote an AutoHotKey script to work for me…

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