Sep

Google, Yahoo, Sunbird, oh my

So, I’ve been having some trouble with Outlook the past few weeks. I finally just got sick of it and decided to take my life elsewhere. (I know you’re thinking that’s a typo, not it’s not…Outlook is my life.) So, the e-mail things was an easy switch. I’ve been using Firefox for quite some time now so switching to Thunderbird for e-mail was an easy decision. I spent a little bit (OK, a while) of time last night getting everything set-up and it’s looking good now. All I need to do is recreate my signatures and I’m good to go.

But, then we come to my next problem. I utilize the Outlook calendar and task functions A LOT. So, I need to come up with a good solution for that problem. Well, I searched and searched and searched last night and I think I might have a solution. Mozilla makes a program called Sunbird that has the additional functions I need. So, I downloaded it. However, I can’t get my current calendar into this calendar. I’m still working on it. I even found anothe function that if I can figure out how to make it work will be ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. I’ve been using google as my home page for a month or so. If I can figure out how I can get Sunbird and Google calendar to sync with each other. Woah, now THAT would be uber-cool. But, that’s making my non-techy brain hurt trying to figure out. So, that’ll wait until another day. (Although, if you really want to get excited with me I figured out WHAT I need to do, now I just need to figure out HOW to do it. I’m cheering for myself in case you can’t see me. LOL) The only thing will be figuring out if this solution will still allow me to sync with my palm. At this point, unfortunately, I don’t think that will work. So, I need to figure something else out. OK….hold that thought…I might have a solution.