1) Multiple identities. With my old email app, I had to setup two accounts in order to send out emails under different addresses, even though both email addresses end up in the same IMAP account, just under seperate folders (procmail rocks). With thunderbird I create one account for receiving the mail from the IMAP server, then add an extra identify to the account. A very useful feature.

2) GNUPG Integration. With the Enigmail extension, signing/verifying emails becomes a snap. This is something I really missed after switching back to Windows from Linux and been unable to run KMail.

3) Spam and Anti-Phising. I’ve not really given this a good run for its money yet, but I imagine like all spam measures it’s not going to be perfect, but it’s certainly a start and better than no solution at all.

4) Extension support. Much like with firefox the extenability of thunderbird is a great asset leading to things such as Enigmail.

5) RSS Feeds. Although not a key reason for the switch, I have to say its a nice bonus. I’ve only recently started using rss feeds to keep up with blogs/news via rssreader. However thunderbirds support for rss feeds is just as good and keeps all my email,news and rss feeds in one app.

6) Bottom Quoting. Several email apps have this annoying tendancy to put your replys to emails above the quote you’re replying to. This may be how many people reply to emails these days, but to me it doesn’t make sense. I like the original way of email quoting, i.e. your reply goes underneath the quote. That way in the case of long quotes you can split the quote up and insert your reply at relevant places such as

>Something you said

something I reply with

>something else you said

More text from me.

As opposed to

something I reply with.

more text from me.

>something you said

>something else you said

ZLauncher

The other week I bought a 1gig SD card for my Palm Tungsten C. Only to find that any apps I moved to the card could no longer placed in seperate launch categories. A little googling later and I’d found ZLauncher, its been around a while which isn’t a bad thing.

This is a vast improvement over the standard palm interface. For starters you can move apps and data to the SD Card and leave a shortcut in ram. The shortcut can then be placed in a category as normal, but in addition to this it fools sync conduits into thinking the app is still ram based and thus the data will sync even though its on the sd card.

ZLauncher also comes with a file manager, bye bye Filez The interface itself if very customisable allowing quick launch buttons to be added to the main toolbar as well as theme support.

The 1gig card is been put to good use, I’ve installed a boat load of inform text adventures along with the frobnitz client, a nice chess application plus a few other games I have as well as all the ebooks I own. Now all I need to find is a better photo viewing application for those holiday snaps so I can spring them on people, evil I know

Holiday Photos

I did warn you that photos would be forth coming, but I’ll go easy on you and only upload a couple. I’ve reduced the sizes to 800×600 just to save space.

First up, our plane shortly before leaving Manchester airport.

Although a little dark, this is the view from the Boardwalk balcony where we stayed for a few nights. Across the lake you can just see the icon of EPCOT center, the golf ball A disney ferry runs between the boardwalk, EPCOT and MGN although EPCOT is only a few minutes walk around the lake anyway.

MGM is still probably my favorite palk of the four Disney parks (Epcot, Magic Kingdom, MGM and Animal Kingdom). Mainly because of the tower of terror, rock and rollercoaster as well as the various shows, especially Phantasmic

MGM also had a new stunt show attraction. Nice addition to the park, although I think they’ve built it over the house facades location that use to be a part of the backlot tour.

Anyhow, what trip to Disney would be complete without a photo of the Disney icon

For anyone going to Disney I’d highly recommend visiting Universal Studios (both parks) as well as Sea World. If you’ve been a few times and fancy something a little different, “Discovery Cove” is definatly worth a visit, swimming with Dolphins is in the top ten (although I can’t remember which place it came) of things people want to do in their life and Discovery Cove gives you the oppertunity. We spent the full day in Discovery Cove back in 2003 and had an amazing time.