Most of you know that I’m an avid Mozilla Thunderbird user. In short, Thunderbird is an alternative e-mail client to Outlook Express. It’s not as good as the full blown version of Outlook that comes with the expensive MS Office Suite…but it sure runs a lot faster and in my opinion is more secure and easier for the whole family to use. Thunderbird 1.5 has now been released and includes some nice features such as better junkmail protection and “inline” spell checking. What are you waiting for? The program is free on Mozilla’s site: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

Mozilla, where have you hear that name before? They’re the same people that brought you the free Firefox browser. Firefox is so popular that even Google packages their toolbar with the browser (click Firefox link on the right). Firefox really shows just how outdated the current Internet Explorer has become.