BX Software

Think open-source email client, and Mozilla’s Thunderbird comes to mind, but despite resuming development after years of neglect, there are still frustrations with the project. Betterbird is one of several forks designed to address these issues, with the added cachet of being run by the man who maintained Thunderbird while it was on life support. […]

We now all use so many online services that using a traditional web browser has become something of a nightmare. If you don’t want to have to keep typing URLs or clicking bookmarks, you probably have a large number of tabs open for you email, your social networks, you chat tools and numerous other things. […]

Just how many web browsers does the world need? Norwegian browser specialist Opera thinks the more the merrier. Opera Air joins its primary (recently rebadged Opera One) and uber-customisable Opera GX browsers to offer a simple, yet soothing, alternative. We’re always being told to take regular time out from working at our computers to avoid […]

Not everyone gets by with the default browser on their computer, and when it comes to picking an alternative, Firefox is one of the most popular out there, having clawed back support from upstart rivals like Google Chrome and Opera in recent years by switching to a rapid release cycle, ensuring major new versions of […]

Just as Firefox has been moved onto an accelerated release schedule, so Mozilla has increase the speed at which updates are released for its email client, Thunderbird. At any one time there are three different versions of Thunderbird available – the stable release, the beta version of the following release (this version of the application), […]

The web is so ubiquitous these days that many people think that it’s the internet as opposed to an – admittedly – ever-increasing part of it. There’s email, usenet (for newsgroups) and FTP. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, and is used for the storage and transfer of files over the internet. Although largely eclipsed […]