Synchronizing your Gmail email messages with Thunderbird is a breeze by usingIMAP.
Every change you make in Thunderbird is more or less instantly reflected in your online email account.
But what about your Gmail contact book, your Google calendar and Google Reader RSS feeds?
The thought of having two versions, one in Thunderbird and one online, was not very appealing.
Here’s how I finally managed to do it.
Synchronize Your Google Contacts With Thunderbird :
This can be achieved by using an extension calledZindus.
Just insert your Google account name and password.
Then poke the “test connection” button and it will connect to your Google account.
You need two extensions -LightningandProvider For Google Calendar.
When you install them and restart, you’ll then see your calendar on the right hand side.
To get the full, in-depth process, readTina’s excellent how-to.
Synchronize Your Google Reader With Thunderbird
This was the biggie as far as I was concerned.
I didn’t want to read them in Thunderbird but for them still to be sitting unread online.
That would have led to chaos.
Finally I discovered one possible solution.
Basically what the following method does is install a mini web app in your Thunderbird.
Sotechnicallyyou are still reading them online but inside your Thunderbird client instead.
So it’s not an offline synchronization solution which is what I am really looking for.
But for the moment this will do until I find a better method.
