Microsoft Outlook

Xobni is doing something interesting with regards to their developer platform: they’re letting developers who create gadgets for Gmail’s new Gadget Platform to port those same gadgets over to Microsoft Outlook. “Deploy Once. Deploy Twice. Nice,” reads the Xobni website where details about the new…

The Outlook Team has announced the general availability of the next release of the Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector. The latest version (14.0), still in beta, is designed to be compatible with the upcoming release of Outlook 2010. If you’re already running the Outlook 2010 Beta, you’ll also want…

Nubli is a new plugin for Microsoft Outlook which just launched at the recent DEMOfall 09 conference held in San Diego last week. According to the company, the plugin uses machine learning to rank inbox conversations by priority. To do so, the software looks at your past email behavior to determine…

Xobni, the internet startup that made its initial debut last year, adds a social layer to your Outlook inbox by integrating profile information about your email contacts into an Outlook sidebar. This includes data pulled from LinkedIn, Facebook, Hoover’s, Skype, and Yahoo! Mail. But the software…

The online service YouSendIt is a popular destination for sharing large files over the web. They also offer an Outlook plugin and a newer Microsoft Office plugin which integrates the YouSendIt service into all the Office programs. This type of service is useful since the majority of email servers…

If you do a lot of emailing with long-distance friends and colleagues, there’s an Outlook plugin that you’ll probably want to grab: Sender’s Time Zone. Like it sounds, this plugin will display the time zone of the email sender right next to the standard Outlook timestamp. It also calculates the…

After two betas, the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector 12.1 has now been made available in its final format. With this free add-in, you can integrate your Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Calendar directly within Outlook. In this new release, the connector has been improved so that syncing…

Although many of today’s email programs allow for large attachments, you never know if the person on the receiving end is using an email program that can receive them. This is especially true if you’re trying to send a file to a corporate email account, as most email admins put limits on attachment…

If you’re a flickr user, there are three plugins that you need to know about: Flickr4Writer, Flickr4Outlook, and Flickr4Word. I had mentioned the Flickr4Writer plugin before when I blogged about some of my favorite plugins for Windows Live Writer - it helps you to insert flickr photos into your blog…

The Microsoft Office Outlook Team have just announced a new beta version of the Outlook Connector - the add-in that lets you sync your Windows Live Hotmail data in Outlook. In the past, email and contacts syncing was available for free, but syncing your calendar was only available with a…