Thread: Internet software

Microsoft Outlook is slow to start up, heavy on the system resources, and has nervous ticks if it is alive for long durations of lime. A great alternative is Eudora, which manages most of the functions of Outlook quite well. Mozilla Thunderbird is another great application, but suffers from having a few superfluous features. These however, include a calendar and a manager, which is something that quite a few find useful. Eudora is the choice for strictly mail related matters, Thunderbird is the way to go for a personal information manager (PIM) along with an email client.

Instead of Gtalk, MSN Messenger and Yahoo' Messenger, a great alternative IM client is Pidgin. Pidgin is easy to use, has a simple interface, and is portable, which gives it an advantage over the other free multi-network chat client, Miranda.