Spicebird – PIM software

Spicebird is a Personal Information Manager (PIM) based on Mozilla Thunderbird’s code. It is developed by Indian company, Synovel.

It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging. Spicebird simplifies communication for users by providing integrated access to the various tools of collaboration in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while users can retain all the advantages of a desktop application.

It is similar in many respects to Evolution, a popular GNOME PIM and workgroup information management tool.

Features include:

• Access email from internet providers using POP/IMAP protocols.
• Groups mail on any field.  Identifies spam.
• Manage schedules using calendar and tasks applications. Multiple calendar subscription, web calendar subscription, day/week/month views, alarms etc.
• Subscribe to public calendars.
• Read news/blogs using RSS subscriptions.
• Manage contacts.
• Based on a powerful instant messaging framework called Telepathy, Spicebird supports many new protocols in addition to Google Talk and Jabber: AIM, ICQ, Novel Groupwise, MSN, MySpace, QQ, Simple and Yahoo.
• Uses local, Caldav server and ICS files on the network as data sources for calendars.
• Support for Google Gadgets.

Website: spicebird.org
Support:
Developer: The Kontact Team
License: GNU GPL v2

Spicebird is written in JavaScript. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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