Monday, November 8, 2010

Thunderbird - Synchronizing Google contacts

I have been having trouble with synchronizing my contacts from Google to my Thunderbird Application. I was trying to use the import functionality given in the Thunderbird which to my surprise didn't work.

Then i found out one add on for it Zindus. All you have to do is click on this link download the add on file, then go to tools->Add on and click install and provide the path to the downloaded file. Now you have to provide your internet account settings and hit sync :) . This is definitely going in my top 10 application list on Ubuntu. BTW this has nothing to do with which version of linux or any other platform you are using.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Wars Of the Social Networking

I have recently read an article about Google and Facebook getting into a social network war. Looks like things are going to be interesting in the social networking arena Google Vs Facebook. All i know from this is one person would be a clear winner, User. Both the giants are known to be very precise on what users want, i am just excited about new things Google would do to really get into this and how Facebook would counter...

Dark Clouds On JAVA

Latest news about Java has been somewhat down(Least i could say). In this article Weeks News all the updates i see are definitely concerning for Java developers like me.
To be honest with you guys i have started looking for other options but i just cant seem to get over Java so easily. I had a chance to give OpenJDK a swing but i must say there is still a long way to go on this. Perhaps  we need companies to focus on community building and move towards open source languages with a mix of proprietary tools and features, lets face it that the only thing that will feed us.
This is my 2 scents on the topic......

May be some of you would like to go through the article by eclipse Marketing Director Oracle Get a Clue.

All i can say this point is ALL IS WELL...... (I hope ;) )