Plugins

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…

Yammer, the “Twitter for the Enterprise” application that brought microblogging status updates to company employees behind the firewall, recently announced the availability of two new Yammer plugins. The plugins came to be thanks to a partnership between Microsoft and Yammer via the BizSpark…

One of the cool things about the desktop blogging application Windows Live Writer is its extensibility through the use of plugins. We’ve covered many of these before, including the Zemnta plugin, the Tweetmeme plugin, and 10 other of our favorites. Now there’s a new one to add to the list - I just…

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…

Want to easily add Tweetmeme’s re-tweet button to your blog post? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you have to go check out Tweetmeme.com, a site that tracks the hottest links on Twitter. One of Tweetmeme’s features is a button which website and blog publishers can add to their posts to…

WebMynd is a browser plugin that delivers real-time web search results in a sidebar whenever you do a search query on the web. Previously only available to integrate with Google, the latest version of WebMynd now supports Bing integration as well. Once the plugin is installed, after doing a web…

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…

Earlier this month, we reported on a way that you can get Twitter updates in Windows Media Center using the Media Center Status Application, but now there’s another option. Now you can tweet from TunerFree MCE, the Media Center plugin that delivers a variety of live TV shows and programs from Hulu,…

An internally used tool at Microsoft called the Microsoft Outlook Thread Compressor has by finally made available to the general public by its creator, Ewan Dalton. The Thread Compressor (or “TC” for short) is an add-in for Outlook 2000/XP/2003/2007 which removes unnecessary emails from your inbox.…

Tim Heuer recently released a new blog plugin for WordPress users: Silverlight for WordPress. With this plugin, you can easily place Silverlight content within a post. He decided to create this plugin, when, after searching the official WordPress directory, the only plugin he could find was one…