How to Install Thunderbird 3 Add-ons

Install Thunderbird 3 Add-ons with a simple Drag ‘n’ Drop.  For Mac, Linux and Windows: Formerly, to install a Thunderbird add-on from Mozilla’s Add-on Collector website you had to click on the “Download Now” button, save the xpi extension in your computer, fire-up the Thunderbird Add-ons manager, click on the “Install” button, pick-up the extension, install it and restart Thunderbird. Smarter fellows trimmed the long process by dragging the downloaded xpi extension file directly to the Thunderbird Add-ons manager.

Now you can trim down the installing process further more; with a simple drag ‘n’ drop, from your browser to Thunderbird. Resize your Chrome or Firefox browser so you have screen space for the Thunderbird Add-ons manager, then click and drag the “Download Now” button on the plug-ins web page, let it hover Thunderbird Add-ons manager window and drop it. – Complete the installation.
(see screenshot above).

- Bye bye to all the many .xpi extensions that fill my hard disk and to those that had to come in. In Ubuntu this method works with Google Chrome, Chromium and Firefox browsers.

Download here via [Spread Thunderbird]

Download OpenOffice for Kids

For Mac, Linux and Windows: Open Office for kids is a trimmed down version of the popular open source OpenOffice.org Suite that targets kids between 7 and 14, but can also be used by adults. If Edubuntu is designed for kids between 6-18 years age group, then Open Office 4 Kids can well replace the bulky pre-installed OpenOffice.org Suite in it.

OOo4Kids.org also revisited the OpenOffice user interface, focusing on Linux and came out with the Linux-only “New Simplified UI”. With fewer but larger buttons, added to the absence of Java and Base (present in Open Office) OOo4Kids.org gained more speed. Load times in Ubuntu 9.10 are considerably reduced with respect to the full OpenOffice.org Suite.

To install in your Ubuntu (tested on Ubuntu 9.10), download and extract the tar.gz package. Move into the “home/username/en-US/ooo4kids0.5/program” folder and run the soffice shell script. – Other languages available are Deutsch, Spanish, French and Portuguese.

Pedagogical-purpose OOo4Kids is a free download for Mac, Linux and Windows platforms. It’s a young open source project supported by the France association EducOOo.

Download : OOo4Kids Download and Wiki.