For the last post in the Power Zimlet Series (Attach Email, Ignore Conversations, Contact Organizer, Task Reminders), we are ending on a lighter note. Zimlet 5: Emoticons in Email Who doesn't love emoticons? They are core part of life online and I admit am a huge fan of them. Historically Zimbra has always supported emoticons - but only in IM.   For ZCS 6.0 (coming very soon) we have made some enhancements to the Zimlet platform (including the ability to create new 'application tabs') that enable us to now support emoticons in email compose as well. When you write an email you can simply enter your standard text emoticon [example:… Read more »

Power Zimlet #3 If you have 100s or even 1000s of contacts and perhaps also using multiple address books and want to organize them, this one is for you. With lot of contacts also comes organization or maintenance, syncing and other issues.  For example, say you want to move all your company's contacts into one address book so you can share company's address book to someone,  or,  say file all of them by "(Company) First Name Last Name" format so its easy to sort them and differentiate them,  you will immediately see there is no easy way to do that. And that's where this Zimlet come in. Its  a very powerful and flexible Zimlet and provides 5 different ways (& several combination) to help organize your contacts. It also organizes across multiple Address books (simply use ctrl -key or Shift-key to select multiple folders). 1.… Read more »

Power Zimlet #2 Every now and then we get messages from co-workers and others that we are not interested in. It gets annoying especially when  it becomes a huge back-and-forth thread of conversation.  And we fall into this gray-area where we don't necessarily want to manually filter them or, we don't want to see such conversations either. So we end-up constantly deleting them as and when they arrive. For example: I am a front-end engineer and I belong to a broad-distribution list called 'engineering'.  And although I usually read messages from this distribution list, at times I see message-threads regarding server-side  engineering or something else that I don't necessarily care about. So ideally, we should be able to click-a-button to unsubscribe or ignore a 'specific' conversation but continue to get other messages as usual.… Read more »