I’ve always used Outlook Express on my own pc at home. Reasons: familiar, easy to use and the real reason, Hotmail support. A few years ago, I looked at some alternatives, but after a few days I got back with Outlook Express. About 2 months ago I finally made the decision to move to Thunderbird. This Mozilla based Email client is Outlook Express+++. You can use most email systems like Gmail, hotmail (requires webmail add-on), pop3 and imap. You can download add-ons to tweak al kinds of options. For example: you can embed a calendar in Thunderbird and sync it with Google calendar.The only small thing I’m missing in Outlook Express is the font-size selection. If anyone know’s a add-on out there that ads this functionality. Send me n email.

I don’t know if you are familiar with the term web2.0. It’s about using the content that’s already on the web. This webcontent you can use and merge with other content to produce new content. I recently found out a new tool from Yahoo. It’s called pipes. You can get any kind of data and organize it the way you want. Usualy it’s published in a xml/rss feed. For example a guy made a mashup from Flickr and Nu.nl(ducth newssite). He combined the words that were used in the title of the newsitem and link this with photo’s from Flickr.

I produced a little example of a mashup with traffic information and speedcamera’s on pipes. This is from the road i’m driving every day from work to home (the A4). It’s based on this one.