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For Windows, Mac and Linux: Enigmail, the Thunderbird extension that makes sending and receiving encrypted email easy now has a nightly build for Thunderbird 3. This security extension for Thunderbird and Seamonkey makes encryption and decryption of sensitive data in emails just a matter of a click – by using the OpenGPG standard provided by GnuPG. More»
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Regular Facebook users can use the Facebook Keyboard Navigation user script to quickly navigate around Facebook using the keyboard. Keyboard shortcuts generally speed up common browsing operations — just like in this case, so you’ll find it quicker to hit “I” to jump into your Facebook Inbox, “M” to send a message, “T” to get to the Facebook Notifications page, or “H” to go to your Home page. For more keyboard shortcuts move to the userscript web page. Keystrokes are case insensitive.
To use this script on Firefox you need to have the Greasemonkey add-on installed. With the Opera browser try this.
Facebook keyboard navigation via [Lifehacker]
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The ThunderBrowse extension was supposed to bring Tabbed browsing to Thunderbird 2 and 3, but it ended up bringing to many tabs to Thunderbird 3. One of the major new features in Thunderbird 3 is “Tabbed Email Messages”, add to that “Thunderbrowse tab browsing” and you get a “virtual tab war”.
The new Thunderbrowse beta add-on allows you to use the in-built tabs in Thunderbird 3, that is, when you click on a link in your email, that link opens a web page in a Thunderbird 3 tab, unlike before when email links open-up in a new ThunderBrowse tab. More»
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Ubuntu/Kubuntu Linux: K3b, the popular open source full-featured CD, DVD, Blu-Ray burning and ripping application gathers momentum and heads towards version 2.0 after a year or so of no-growth. The last stable release, version 1.05 was out in late May 27, 2008. The good news is K3b 2.0 has been ported KDE 4 thanks to two developers from the Mandriva project. More»
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