Big, big shoes to fill.
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking Retires From Post : Discovery News
Hawking, 66, is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a title once held by the great 18th century physicist Isaac Newton. The university said Friday that he would step down at the end of the academic year in September, but would continue working as Emeritus Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
gcontactsync is an extension that synchronizes contacts from a Google (Gmail) account with an Address Book in Thunderbird 2 or 3 written for a Google Summer of Code project in 2008.
The code is at version 0.1.1. It is a little buggy and runs rough, but with a little TLC it does a good job of syncing up GMail and Thunderbird. IT is far better than the Zindus plugin, which missing syncing up a lot of fields in the contacts.
For Mac users, its pretty easy to get a copy of your Mac address book into Thunderbird by exporting it to vcard format, then converting to LDIF for import to Thunderbird. Thunderbird 3 will display your Mac address book directly into Thunderbird (I’m told)
There is a handy tutorial flash for installing and using the extension, as well as the extension’s xpi link, here.
