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Productivity tools

Ubuntu supports a lot of types of email programs. For personal use, you can use your favourite webmail applications like Gmail or Yahoo mail. For business, you might prefer to use the fully-supported Evolution Mail program that is included with Ubuntu. Evolution is a fully-featured email, calendar, task and contact sharing program that even integrates with your on-desktop clock to make sure you don’t miss any must attend meetings.

Email. All the standard email features you need to successfully integrate Evolution into your business. Auto-fill from contact lists, back-up email and filter email – all of the productivity tasks you are familiar with.

Calendar. Organise your own time and synch with colleagues’ diaries. View by day and by week and easily associate critical information to make the meeting valuable. And what’s more, have it pop up on your desktop if required.

Contacts. Import lists from files and other email programs easily and completely. Freely add individuals and add them to companies. Record details that will help you maintain the customer relationship.

Tasks. Record tasks and expand them to include as much or as little detail as required and share your tasks across for group involvement.

Instant messaging

Pidgin IM is the extremely popular open source messaging tool. It has all the basic functions you know and love but with a growing list of plug-ins to make you the most efficient IMer around. This is an increasingly important business tool but Pidgin also allows you to integrate with private IM channels so you can keep in contact with the people who really matter.

Web Browsing

Ubuntu comes with the latest browser from Mozilla, Firefox 3. Firefox has quickly become one of the most popular browsers being used on millions of desktops throughout the world.

The version on Ubuntu has been specifically themed for the operating system and uses familiar-looking icons so browsing is the smooth experience that users expect.

New features in Firefox 3

Enhanced bookmarking, tagging and history. Bookmarking a page simply means clicking on the empty star in the location bar. Clicking again enables you to file the bookmark in the correct folder for better organisation.

Safer than ever. Firefox has gained a terrific reputation for protecting users from malware, viruses, phishing sites and other channels of malicious content.

Firefox has a reputation for providing strong protection by blocking sites it suspects of stealing your personal information. In Firefox 3, this is being extended (in combination with Google) to sites that are likely to install malware on your computer.

Linux and Ubuntu are already considerably safer environments to operate in than proprietary operating systems. These additions mean you can lead your digital life without fear of catastrophic damage to your network, computer or finances!

Wonderful world of add-ons. Firefox has hundreds of add-ons available to extend or customise your browsing. Users often have specific requirements depending on how they use their browser. Chances are someone has built a tool to help.

Improved address prompting in location bar. The autocomplete list that appears when you start entering letters in the location bar is no longer restricted to web addresses but also looks into bookmark and history page titles and tags which make it more comprehensive.

Mozilla has also added adaptive learning to this function so that the more you use it the better it will become at learning what you are looking for and displaying the relevant information more quickly.

No more pop-ups, forced add-ons and other irritations. If you are moving to Firefox for the first time with Ubuntu 9.04, you will notice the easy-to set preferences, tools to block or provide warnings about annoying pop-ups, cookie additions or any sites that try to place an add-on to your machine with your permission. Surf in peace.