thunderbird and striped shirts
Lori sent this URL to me yesterday, I found it hilarious. I read it again today and it was even better so I decided to share;
http://www.thephatphree.com/features.asp?StoryID=239&SectionID=11
It pretty much describes half of the snobby Scottsdale crowd.
If you're not tech savvy, run Microsoft Windows, use Internet Explorer for web browsing and enjoy either Oulook, Outlook Express, or a web based email system, and are satisfied; stop reading.
For those of you who don't use all that, do use it and are unhappy with it, or just have a sense of adventure, you should try out Firefox and Thunderbird. Some of you may have heard of either Mozilla or Firefox, and most of you have heard of Netscape. I know you've all heard of AOL. Well here's some background.. the company Netscape started in 1994 to make some money of this new fangled world wide web thing that was becoming popular thanks to Mosaic (the first widely run web browser, written by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois). They wrote their web browser under the code name "Mozilla". In 1998 AOL bought Netscape and released the source code for free to the world, while continuing development under "the Mozilla Project". They also took the web browser code and incorporated it as the web browser into the AOL software. After a few years of development the two most impressive pieces of software coming out of the project are a web browser named Firefox and an e-mail client named Thunderbird.
So try them out.. download them. Play with them. They do some neat things that their Microsoft equivalents do not. Best of all they are completely open source and free to the world. Any Operating System ever created can adapt this software to run on it, unlike their Microsoft counterparts.
Firefox; http://www.getfirefox.com
Thunderbird; http://www.getthunderbird.com