Comments on: It’s Friday: Goofy but fascinating Thunderbird Add-ons day http://ascher.ca/blog/2008/12/12/its-friday-goofy-but-fascinating-thunderbird-add-ons-day/ Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:34:56 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ken Saunders http://ascher.ca/blog/2008/12/12/its-friday-goofy-but-fascinating-thunderbird-add-ons-day/comment-page-1/#comment-61785 Ken Saunders Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:12:04 +0000 http://ascher.ca/blog/?p=474#comment-61785 "I could see how being able to hear what message is coming in would be useful if I don’t have to switch over to view the e-mail every time" That's exactly why I'm installing it as I write this. Well, I'm waiting for Thunderbird to restart but you know what I mean. :) I don't use a visual notification alert for Thunderbird, I find it to be distracting and I always have my PC's audio on so I know when mail arrives. - Alright it's installed, I tested it, and it's very cool. Being notified of new important or expected emails will be great and not having to stop what I'm doing because 8 posts have been made to a group or 10 Google Alerts have come in within the last 3 minutes will be even better. I see this becoming a very popular and widely used add-on if promoted properly. It needs a button to access filters and create new ones quickly but that's easy enough. I got a Filters toolbar button for Thunderbird from the Custom Toolbar Buttons Maker (for Thunderbird) page on a friend's site that does the trick. I had to bump up the max version number but that was no big deal and he's currently updating all of his add-ons anyway. http://codefisher.org/toolbar_button/toolbar_button_maker?thunderbird The developer of ToneQuilla does provide some sound samples but I had to go fish out my own which was tedious so that too could/should be addressed but I'm already enjoying it and I plan on supporting the developer by posting reviews and promoting ToneQuilla wherever I can as a gesture of thanks for his time and effort. I encourage others who try ToneQuilla to post a review/rating for it on AMO. Doing so will help to get it out of the Sandbox and lose the "experimental" label that it has so that it will be made available to the public and to people who do not choose to select "show experimental add-ons". Thanks for posting this David. I had initially passed over this add-on but I'm not quite sure why. “I could see how being able to hear what message is coming in would be useful if I don’t have to switch over to view the e-mail every time”

That’s exactly why I’m installing it as I write this. Well, I’m waiting for Thunderbird to restart but you know what I mean. :)
I don’t use a visual notification alert for Thunderbird, I find it to be distracting and I always have my PC’s audio on so I know when mail arrives.
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Alright it’s installed, I tested it, and it’s very cool.
Being notified of new important or expected emails will be great and not having to stop what I’m doing because 8 posts have been made to a group or 10 Google Alerts have come in within the last 3 minutes will be even better.

I see this becoming a very popular and widely used add-on if promoted properly.
It needs a button to access filters and create new ones quickly but that’s easy enough.
I got a Filters toolbar button for Thunderbird from the Custom Toolbar Buttons Maker (for Thunderbird) page on a friend’s site that does the trick. I had to bump up the max version number but that was no big deal and he’s currently updating all of his add-ons anyway.
http://codefisher.org/toolbar_button/toolbar_button_maker?thunderbird

The developer of ToneQuilla does provide some sound samples but I had to go fish out my own which was tedious so that too could/should be addressed but I’m already enjoying it and I plan on supporting the developer by posting reviews and promoting ToneQuilla wherever I can as a gesture of thanks for his time and effort.

I encourage others who try ToneQuilla to post a review/rating for it on AMO.
Doing so will help to get it out of the Sandbox and lose the “experimental” label that it has so that it will be made available to the public and to people who do not choose to select “show experimental add-ons”.

Thanks for posting this David.
I had initially passed over this add-on but I’m not quite sure why.

]]> By: Daniel Einspanjer http://ascher.ca/blog/2008/12/12/its-friday-goofy-but-fascinating-thunderbird-add-ons-day/comment-page-1/#comment-61784 Daniel Einspanjer Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:54:03 +0000 http://ascher.ca/blog/?p=474#comment-61784 I remember reading about a network health monitor application a while back that used a variety of audio and visual queues to indicate what was happening on a network without any text. Different types of animal noises like bird chirps or frog croaks indicated certain packets of traffic, and things like lightning strikes or clouds drifting by indicated other types of events like packet loss or large volumes of data being transferred. ToneQuilla reminds me of that concept. I could see how being able to hear what message is coming in would be useful if I don't have to switch over to view the e-mail every time. Although, I guess if I reinstall Growl and get it working with Shredder, that would mostly serve the same purpose... I remember reading about a network health monitor application a while back that used a variety of audio and visual queues to indicate what was happening on a network without any text. Different types of animal noises like bird chirps or frog croaks indicated certain packets of traffic, and things like lightning strikes or clouds drifting by indicated other types of events like packet loss or large volumes of data being transferred.

ToneQuilla reminds me of that concept. I could see how being able to hear what message is coming in would be useful if I don’t have to switch over to view the e-mail every time. Although, I guess if I reinstall Growl and get it working with Shredder, that would mostly serve the same purpose…

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