Doing TO DOs with Toodledo on Thunderbird (+Lighting ?)

How I integrated my preferred Mail, Calendar and Todos tools.

I use Thunderbird as my email client and Lightning for integration with my company calendar and other personal calendars as needed but was missing a connection with for my TO DOs since I like using Toodledo (toodledo.com). To me Toodledo is the best free ToDo (GTD - Get Things Done) personal management tool out there. I tried the to use the Lightning extension to connect directly to Toodledo by following some simple instructions but for some reason it did not work. So at the end, I used another Thunderbird Extension (WAT:WebApplicationTab ) and simply opened Toodledo as a web page on Thunderbird. It works really well! Look!

To integrate Lightning to Toodledo you may try doing this:
on Toodledo
1) log in
2) In "Tools & Services" click in calendars "Configure"
3) Enable Calendar Suscriptions
4) Use the links offered as urls to be used in Lightinig


Now, on Lightining
1) Create a new calendar (right click on calendar area)
2) Select On Network



 3) Seletct ICS calendar and use the Toodledo url as location









4) Give it a name (and cross your fingers)


In my case , this did not work but the reason could be I am inside a company firewall. Good luck for you!

Cyber Cold War

clipped from: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-14/china-based-hacking-of-760-companies-shows-cyber-cold-war.html

It is amazing how much damage can be made those days by Cyber spies...

Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. and Intel Corp. were logical targets for China-based hackers, given the solid-gold intellectual property data stored in their computers. An attack by cyber spies on iBahn, a provider of Internet services to hotels, takes some explaining.

iBahn provides broadband business and entertainment access to guests of Marriott International Inc. and other hotel chains, including multinational companies that hold meetings on site. Breaking into iBahn’s networks, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the matter, may have let hackers see millions of confidential e-mails, even encrypted ones, as executives from Dubai to New York reported back on everything from new product development to merger negotiations.

More worrisome, hackers might have used iBahn’s system as a launching pad into corporate networks that are connected to it, using traveling employees to create a backdoor to company secrets, said Nick Percoco, head of Trustwave Corp.’s SpiderLabs, a security firm.

Understanding threading in Thunderbird

This was originally posted at: https://github.com/protz/GMail-Conversation-View/wiki/What-is-threading

What is threading

Email structure

An email is made of headers followed by the message body. Headers contain metadata about the message: who sent it, to who, when the message was sent, what the subject is, etc. etc.. The message body is, well, the message body. To see the headers, select a message in your message list, and in the menus, hit View > Message source. You will see the raw contents of the message. Everything before the first blank line is the message source is headers. The rest is the message body. We'll mainly talk about headers here.

Default behavior in Thunderbird 3

About message ids

When an email is sent, it is assigned a unique message id. This message id is stored in the Message-Id: header.

When Alice sends a message to Bob, Alice's message is assigned a message id, say, for the sake of example, "AliceMsg1". Now when Bob replies to Alice's message, Bob's message is also assigned a message id, say, "BobMsg1". If we leave the situation "as is", when Bob's reply arrives in Alice's mailbox, Alice's MUA (Mail User Agent, i.e. the program she uses to read and send email) has no way to figure out that Bob's reply actually relates to Alice's original email.

To alleviate this problem, Bob's MUA adds an additional header called Reply-To:, whose value is "AliceMsg1". This header tells which message Bob is replying to, which allows Alice's MUA to figure out that "AliceMsg1" and "BobMsg1" relate together. There is another header that serves the same purpose, but that can hold more than one value, called the References: header.

Thunderbird 3, by default, will analyze these headers and thread related messages together. Make sure you hit View > Sort by > Threaded, and Thunderbird will thread related messages for you.

By default, Thunderbird will NOT analyze the subjects to determine threading.

Extra threading

In case two messages in Alice's inbox refer to message id "SomeMsg1", and the message which has this id no longer exists in Alice's inbox, Thunderbird will thread the two messages together anyway, because they refer to a common ancestor.

Why does threading fail?

Some badly behaved MUAs will fail to set the correct References: or Reply-To: headers. This is bad attitude, because the recipient's MUA will have no information to thread the resulting messages together. If Thunderbird Conversations fails to thread messages together, ask the other participants in the conversation to use a modern MUA!

Hidden threading preferences

Using the subject to figure out threading

Thunderbird can be configured to use the email's subjects to figure out threading. This is potentially dangerous, because it might thread together messages that aren't related. If person A sends a message with subject Hello, and another person sends a message with subject Re: Hello, the two will be threaded together always.

To enable this behavior, change the hidden pref mail.strict_threading from true to false.

More aggressive threading

Thunderbird can thread together emails which share a common subject, without requiring the Re: part in the subject.

To enable this behavior, change the hidden pref mail.thread_without_re from false to true.

The following are impossible:

• manually marking which messages belong to a common thread,
• fixing the Reply-To: of a message which was sent to you,
• basically anything that implies modifying messages you've already received.

Panasonic Older BluRay players will not do Netflix

I can not believe, with the coming soon sign I was sure Netflix would be available on older systems as soon as Panasonic had an agreement with Netflix.

clipped from news.cnet.com Panasonic confirms older VieraCast products won't get Netflix, Skype That little "Coming Soon" placeholder on the lower right of Panasonic's 2008 and 2009 VieraCast home pages won't say "Netflix" anytime soon. The explanation from Panasonic is that the chip that handles VieraCast in the older models lacks the necessary embedded DRM (Digital Rights Management) code to enable compatibility with Netflix. That information is slightly more specific than what was said by Bob Perry, Senior VP at the company, in the latest update to his blog: "...due to the system requirement issues, Netflix cannot be added to pre-2010 models."

A Box on the Cloud

This is a good way to share files between multiple devices and also share some folders with friends

clipped from www.cultofmac.com How To Get MobileMe For Free Using Google and Dropbox [How To] iDisk While I barely used iDisk, I did want to keep its functionality for the rare times I need it. My solution is Dropbox, an online storage service that offers 2GB of space for free (the same as the basic MobileMe storage solution). Just download the app to all your Macs and don’t forget to download the iPhone app. After that, the setup is a breeze. Dropbox adds a folder to the Finder that looks and works just like iDisk. Here it is below the Applications and Documents folder.