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Thunderbird 1.0 reaches 1,000,000 downloads in just 10 days! Congratulations Mozilla!

After the first of the year this weblog will be dedicated to KZION only. I am going to start up a new blog for all my tech posts. More information coming later this month.

Wow! Domain name registration from Yahoo! is now only $4.98 per year.

The small print

Domains price Offer is open to new customers that purchase Domains. Limit one offer per customer, and one use per customer on a single account. Offer expires December 31, 2004 at 11:59 PM PST.

What can you say? Google is too cool.

Give the Gift of Google

Check out Google Suggest. As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you’re typing and offers suggestions in real time. It also shows you how many results would be returned with the search.

More information here.

Update: While playing with Google Suggest I entered KZION and I was pleasantly surprised to find 16,400 results for KZION and 8,670 for KZION radio.

In-Line spell check, that’s what I’m talkin’ bout! A Thunderbird extension that underlines misspelled words as you type into the compose window.

This Mozilla Thunderbird extension adds a menu item to delete mail marked as junk from the folder that you right click on. Optionally bypasses the Trash folder when deleting!

I’ve received some email from people wanting help with Mozilla Thunderbird. Most of the questions have been very basic and almost always I refer them to this basic tutorial which consists of nine articles that will get them set up and running Mozilla Thunderbird.

Essential Firefox Extensions

10 Extensions to Enhance Firefox

In case you haven’t heard, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 was released today. It took me 45 minutes this morning just to get to the download link. I’m sure things have calmed down by now.

I haven’t noticed any difference with 1.0 except most of my extensions needed to be updated.

Ten CSS tricks you may not know.

This extension adds a small edit box and a button above or below the email message text in the main Thunderbird interface or message window. If you type some text in the QuickReply box and then click the ‘Send Reply’ button, a reply is sent to the writer of the currently selected email with the typed text in the body.

Tool for minimizing Thunderbird to the system tray (Windows only).

Online Status Indicator is a service that lets you put a small image on a web page to show if you are online on AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger. Use the default icons or create your own status icons. This service is completely free.

Gmail Signature Generator. Very cool.

I just registered three new domains. I don’t have any plans for them but perhaps in the future.

sillyanswer.com
thinkdrastic.com
underpromise.com

One of the strangest things to come from my stats program is the fact the top search terms used in search engines to find KZION are:

kzion
k-zion
kzion internet radio
www.kzion.com
kzion.com
KZION

Why does someone need to enter KZION into a google search box to find me? Isn’t it obvious that KZION could be found at http://www.kzion.com ?

I have been using The Bat Email client for three or four years now. I’ve been really happy with it but I really like Firefox and the open source community of Mozilla so I decided to check out Mozilla’s Thunderbird last night.

There wasn’t much of a learning curve. I immediately set up all of my accounts and as email arrived I created new folders and message filters to organize incoming messages. I found the spam filter to be fairly intuitive as I began marking the spam messages. I was able to set up my dynamic signature for outgoing emails and I installed quite a few extensions with no problems at all.

There are some issues though. The first one is both Firefox and Thunderbird are resource hogs. Firefox sits at 43 MB and Thunderbird is at 24 MB while SlimBrowser uses only 12 MB and The Bat uses only 5 MB. That bothers me as I like to run quite a few programs simultaneously and even though I have a gig of RAM Firefox and Thunderbird slow me down.

The other issue I have is I cannot find a way to import my 75,000 emails from The Bat to Thunderbird. There is an import option in Thunderbird but it limits me to a few select email programs. The Bat can export in many popular formats but Thunderbird does not allow me to select where the files are to import so I’m stuck. If there is a way I’m not seeing it. I guess I will have to wait for an extension to be developed that will allow additional options to importing email or perhaps 1.0 will have that built in. I still need to check the forums and maybe I’ll find something there.

All in all I’m pretty satisfied with Thunderbird.

Light Weight Low Tech CSS Tabs found via CSS Vault Resources

I saw this on TV a while back and have been meaning to mention it. MIT has hundreds of college courses available for free online. These are actual MIT classes but you have no access to an instructor and of course no degree is awarded.

Some example classes in the computer science major are

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Computation Structures
Computer Language Engineering
Mathematics for Computer Science
Introduction to Algorithms
Software Engineering for Web Applications
Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control

As you can see these are not wimpy classes.