The Horde Project

What do you think of the Horde project? It is one of the many open sourced group collaboration software that is available on the market. Horde has many rich features and it is comparable to Microsoft Exchange.

The following are the list of features which Horde collaboration software supports

- Public and shared resources (calendars, address books, tasklists and notepads)
- Unlimited resources per user
- Global categories (tags)
- Customizable portal screen including applets for weather and quotes
- 25 different interface themes
- Online help system
- Import and export of groupware data from other applications
- Synchronization with PDAs, mobile phones, groupware clients
- Integrated user management, group support and permissions system
- User preferences with global default values
- Database support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL-Server

Calendar:

- Day, week, work week, month and year views
- Recurring and all-day events
- Alarms with email notifications
- Simple and advanced search forms
- Meeting planning, also with other calendar applications
- Email notifications
- Free/busy information exchange with other calendar applications
- Subscription of remote calendars
- Integration into ext client like Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, MS Outlook
- iCalendar and iTip support

Contacts:

- Distribution lists/email groups, also across address books
- Simple and advanced search forms
- Customizable address book listings
- vCard support
- Address book pager
- Customizable contact fields
- Integration of existing address books

Tasks:

- Priorities and due dates
- Searchable descriptions
- Email notification about changed tasks
- Integration into ext clients like Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, MS Outlook

Notes:

- Fulltext search
- Character counter

Oct 21st 2009 -- Microsoft Windows 7 Launch in 2 hours time

Windows 7, the much awaited Windows Operating System after Windows Vista will be officially released on October 22nd 2009. It is meant as a replacement to the buggy Windows Vista. There will be 3 versions available; Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate.

I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate on a Fujitsu Lifebook S6510. Installation of the OS was a breeze. It took only about 35 minutes to install on the Lifebook s6510 which had 4GB Ram Memory. The installation is much faster than Windows Vista. Windows 7 optimizes your Ram Memory and uses it much more efficiently. One of the cool features of Windows 7 is the "Snap" feature whereby you can easily resize open windows by dragging it to the edges of your PC/Laptop Screen.

For a full list of features in Windows 7. Please click on the following link "Windows 7 Features"

A thumbs up to Microsoft for working on a new Operating System to save us from losing faith in them after the Vista "perils and troubles".

Please feel free to comment anything regards to Windows 7 and how it has benefited/worsened your life?