I would like to use Thunderbird as a replacement for Mail/Addressbook in Lion because I dislike the latter apps so much however there appears to be no way to sync my contacts with Thunderbird.

Sure I can import them but if I work with them in Thunderbird there is no apparent way to have the changes sync back to Address Book; rendering sync with my iPhone useless.

After all these years and the success of the iPhone one would think that Thunderbird and Lightening for that matter would sync seamlessly with Apple's info apps. This is the sole reason I don't use this.

If I'm being dumb and not seeing something obvious I'd appreciate some feedback. Thanks.

Overall, this is an excellent application for anyone looking for more features over Apple's paltry iCal, yet it does have some serious shortcomings when compared to calendars such as Outlook on either Mac or Windows.

The primary of those, at least for my workflow, is alarms. Alarms are the single element of this application which feel unfinished and buggy. When an alarm triggers the window doesn't actually come into focus but remains a background window. The item triggering the alarm is shown but it also isn't in focus; now forcing two unnecessary mouse clicks simply to respond to the alarm.

If I want to snooze the alarm (which I often do) I'm forced to make several more mouse clicks to manually set a time and date for the snooze, forcing me to think far too much.

What I'd prefer is an exact copy of Outlook's snooze options, which I find to be nearly perfect. I especially love the "end of day" and "tomorrow morning" options but they are all useful.

Another annoying aspect of alarms is if an alarm is associated with a recurring task, all the future tasks show up in the alarm window regardless of their alarm status.

These omissions and bugs make this part of the program feel buggy and are annoying to use.

If you are not concerned with alarms, this program is excellent in virtually every other respect and I highly recommend it. If you live by alarms and snooze, as I do, you will be frustrated by the lack of polish and options.

Evernote development seems to be going in the opposite direction of what I would like. This update includes "social sharing" as a feature but I don't want or need yet another sharing tool. I'm looking for privacy and security for my notes, neither of which Evernote offers; both by it's nature as a cloud service and the complete lack of password security. Even the ability to password protect the database would be ok for me but I would especially like note level security.

I've got Facebook and many other services for "social sharing" what I want is privacy.

I've used Isolator in the past to fill the gap when Menustrip was unavailable but now that Menustrip has been resurrected from the dead it does this and much more and much better. Yes, it's 10 bucks and this is free but I think it's worth it.

Very nice app. Thanks for making it free.