The poser at Smallwire is a good geek.

He says that, “all good geeks know that keyboard shortcuts are the shiznit.” I think that must be a good thing, because he goes on to list all the keyboard shortcuts for Google’s web apps.

You will find there time-saving keystroke goodness for GMail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Writely, Google Video and Google Maps.

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Tech. Life. Blogged. has a post that explains how to add the Agenda from your Google Calendar to your Gmail web interface using a Greasemonkey script in Firefox.

The instructions are involved but not technically demanding.

And the result is useful:

You can only have one calendar at a time loaded in this way and if your calendar is big the reloading will slow things down (a little).

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Dmitri Popov has written a useful little tutorial on “using Thunderbird like a Pro” at NewsForge.

If you are into that sort of thing, you will find there a quick explanation of how to make smarter use of smart folders, an introduction to some useful extensions and details on setting up turning Thunderbird into a “collaboration tool” with the Calendar and SynKolab extensions.

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Publishing iCal calendars is most easily done via .Mac or on server using WebDAV.

What if you don’t have a .Mac account or access to WebDAV at your service provider or web host?

You can do it manually, using FTP, but it’s a pain. You have to hunt through iCal’s arcane naming system to find the calendar you want and them mess around with it a bit before uploading it.

Derek Jones has written a walk-through for publishing calendars which takes the pain out of the process by using Automator.

He goes through each step in creating an Automator action for this and includes some useful tips along the way. The post also includes links to two extra Automator actions that are handy in themselves.

This tip also appeared on macOSXHints.

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Zimbra is “a rich, full-featured, AJAX-based Web client that brings e-mail and calendar items to life through Web mash-ups on the front end”.

Today the developers announced the release of support for Intel Macs. According to the company’s press release,

ZCS for Mac OS X is an open-source, enterprise-grade email and collaboration server and application that includes support for iCal, Apple Mail clients and Apple Xsan storage. In testing ZCS for Mac OS X, Zimbra has achieved speeds up to five times faster on the Intel-based Mac clients.

The latest version also introduces support for calendar resources (conferences rooms, etc) and reminders.

[Via PRNewsWire ]

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The world of email clients for Mac is seeing some significant change.

Not long ago Entourage got more Mail-like, gaining iSync and Spotlight support. Now Thunderbird gets more Entourage-like, gaining an extension that provides integrated calendaring and to dos.

Lightning adds a calendar to the Thunderbird interface, not unlike Boris Anthony’s mock-up for a possible Mail.app plugin.

The extension is already well-featured, offering to dos, scheduling, daily, weekly and monthly views, an auto-generated “Agenda” of upcoming events and more.

You read more about Lightning and see a screenshot in Eric Bangeman’s review on ars technica.

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