Those of us with office-based careers use tools and applications to help organise our working lives. Email plays an important part of communicating, especially within a corporation, and clients such as Microsoft Outlook incorporate a personal information manager (PIM) to help you schedule meeting, organise contacts and various other features to keep you organised. The trouble with Outlook is that it’s expensive, not everyone may choose to use the technology and it works most efficiently with an Exchange server, which may be out of reach for small enterprises.

Mozilla Lighting 0.8 for Thunderbird is an add-on which enables you to add PIM features to your Thunderbird email client, giving you a free alternative to Outlook. Use it in the same way to track calendar items, organise meetings and synchronise devices such as your iPod or mobile.

09 Apr 2008