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Thunderbird is an email client from Mozilla. In addition to handling multiple email accounts, the program can also be used to subscribe to RSS feeds and access online newsgroups and a new tabbed interface makes it easy to jump between individual emails or different aspects of the program.

Thunderbird also supports addons that can be used to customise and extend the features of the program.

Whats new:

• More responsive and faster to start up and use
  
• Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 5 engine
  
• New Add-ons Manager
  
• Revised account creation wizard to improve email setup
  
• New Troubleshooting Information page
  
• Tabs can now be reordered and dragged to different windows
  
• Attachment sizes now displayed along with attachments
  
• Plugins can now be loaded in RSS feeds by default
  
• There are several theme fixes for Windows Vista and Windows 7
  
• Over 390 platform fixes that improve speed, performance, stability and security

Download: Thunderbird 5.0

Mozilla reveals on their blog that 85% of Firefox 4 users have chosen to install an add-on — that's more than 60 million users every day! This number doesn’t include Personas, and even excludes popular add-ons bundled with other software that the user hasn’t actively agreed to install.



On average, users have 5 add-ons installed, with the following distribution:

A YouTuber, Ramaprasanna decided to make Gmail Motion, Google's April fool joke into a reality. By using Microsoft Kinect, he successfully reproduce all the commands shown in Google's explanation video by spending a small amount of time, in precisely two hours he was able to write 60 lines of code and make the prank a reality.

Additional to displaying his control over Gmail, he also displayed that he had also control over Microsoft's Live services.



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Microsoft is taking some extra steps in Windows 8 to shield users from malicious applications with the introduction of an in-built file verification policy powered by the SmartScreen Filter which is already available in Internet Explorer and is integrated in Windows Live Messenger 2011.

SmartScreen is practically a dynamic list of known “illegal, viral, fraudulent, or malicious” URLs that Microsoft manually or algorithmally identifies. It uses this list to compare the link or executes a user visits or downloads, warning if there’s a match.

In Windows 8, SmartScreen appears to serve two purposes – to reactively check the file system and proactively prevent any downloaded applications from running that are unknown to the filter.

Microsoft is already providing User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7 and Vista, Windows Defender and Security Essentials for free to Windows users which are really effective against viruses and malwares.

[via istartedsomething]