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January 12, 2006

New Mozilla mail (TBird v. 1.5); Pats to lose?; 1967 Jimi Hendrix video; 1945 Groucho Marx letter; Mozart's musical diary, c. 1790

Mail upgrade: The open-source Mozilla Foundation yesterday released Thunderbird v 1.5, a new version of the free stand-alone email client and companion to the Firefox browser.

What's New includes an autosave (as a draft) feature , support for podcasts, Google Earth and RSS feeds, new security features, including a phishing-scam detector, and more. If you've ever started an email and forgotten about it when you shut down, or your system crashed in mid-composition, you'll appreciate the autosave feature: The mail in porgress is safely stored as a draft without you having to do anything.

Simple upgrade instructions.

Early Jimi: The Wind Cries Mary: It's a video of Jimi Hendrix in Stockholm, 1967.

Pats to lose? Broncos Vs. Patriots -- Who The Odds Favor: Sports Network. Detailed analysis, but what do they know?

Here's Groucho: Seemingly out of the blue, the Film section lead (Brother, can you spare your name?) in the Australia news site The Age is a hilarious 1945 letter from Grouch Marx in which the comedian reponds to a legal threat from Warner Bros. if he uses the title A Night in Casablanca. He assures the studio, which made a little movie in 1942 with Humphrey Bogart called Casablanca,

I just don't understand your attitude. Even if you plan on releasing your picture, I am sure that the average movie fan could learn in time to distinguish between Ingrid Bergman and Harpo. I don't know whether I could, but I certainly would like to try.

Great stuff. The credit line is The Oxford Book of Letters, 1996. No accompanying story, just a letter. (This may happen all the time in Australia, but American journalism would have to add at least a line saying something like, "Great Letters by Famous People.")

Urban legends debunker Snopes.com says it was a publicity stunt cooked up by the Marx brothers.

Mozart's musical diary: The British Library adds "a high-quality version of Mozart's Thematic Catalogue" (1784-1791) to its Turning the Pages series, with 75 audio clips. (Shockwave)

How to Set White Balance on your digital camera.

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Comments

The Hendrix video was a rare treat. It was surprising they didn't show much of his fingerwork on the guitar but it was a treat nevertheless. Thanks.

Posted by: Alan Fraser on January 12, 2006 7:53 AM