5 Awesome Microsoft Outlook Plugins

By Partho, Gaea News Network
Friday, September 11, 2009

outlooktoolspluginjpgMicrosoft Outlook is one of the most widely used desktop email clients that allows you to read emails, schedule appointments, take notes, manage your contacts all from your desktop. Now if you use Microsoft Office in your business environment it’s most likely that you spend a lot of time using the Outlook email program. While you are using it all the time, you might as well try to get a bit more out of Outlook. Well, Outlook already has enough tools for users, but there are some really cool Microsoft Outlook plugins to take your experience to the next level. We have listed the 5 free Microsoft Outlook plugins that are worth a look.

1. Xobni

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With emails occupying your Outlook inbox regularly you must be having tons of emails by now. What if you were to find an important email that you received wayback. To avoid this mess up you could use a simple Outlook plugin, Xobni that will organize your emails and speed up your search for email and attachments. For details of the plugin you could refer to our review on Xobni.

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2. Live Search Maps

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Well, you must have been through occassions when you have just received an email for an appintment and you have no clue about the location.
With Live Search Maps plugin for Outlook you can readily see the direction for your location and time required to reach the destination.

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3. FBLook

This is a cool Microsoft Outlook plugin for all you Facebook aficionados to easily watch Facebook updates within Outlook. What’s more if you are music buff you can set the status to the song you are currently playing on Windows Media Player or iTunes.

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4. OutTwit

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Almost every other professional is in Twitter and maybe even you. Now you wanna get Twitter on your Microsoft Outlook OutTwit is for you. With this plugin you can easily update your Twitter status and follow your friends from right within Outlook

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5. Google Calender Snc

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This utility allows Outlook users to sync their calender between multiple Outlook installations. In order to sync the calender between multiple Outlook installation you can download and install Google Calendar Sync on two PCs. Your Goolge account can be used as a central storage for calender events that would also keep the Outlook installation in sync.

Whenever you add or update an events in one PC Google Calendar Sync would add it to your Google account.

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PS: Google Calendar Sync is not exactly a Microsoft Outlook plugin, but an utility

Discussion

Peter
September 25, 2009: 9:53 am

Is there any plugin available for outlook that will scan the 1000’s of emails and automatically pull signature lines and convert them into unique contacts in your address book.

Thanks

Peter

September 11, 2009: 6:32 pm

Great post. Also suggest you check out Gist (www.gist.com). We’ve got an Outlook Plugin that brings our web app functionality into outlook. Happy to walk you through it.

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