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Techie Buzz: 12 Must Have Useful and Free Microsoft Outlook Add-Ins

  • Nirmal · 1 year ago
    Great List Keith,
    I have not used all in the list, tried out Xobni, its wonderful.
  • Joel · 1 year ago
    Great list...having been using most of them except for the social networking ones...
  • VitaminCM · 1 year ago
    Great article.
    Here is a similar article that mentions great Outlook plug-ins. It has a few that are not mentioned here.
  • Keith Dsouza · 1 year ago
    Thanks, I checked it out and found quite a few other interesting add-ins :)
  • multitaskingmama · 1 year ago
    One add-in that has increased my personal productivity and helped organize Outlook for my day-to-day to do list is the Foresight product. You can check it out at www.enhanceyouroutlook.com
  • multitaskingmama · 1 year ago
    One other add-in that has helped me increase my personal productivity and organize Outlook in a way that works for me is the Foresight product. Has anyone tried it?
  • multitaskingmom · 1 year ago
    I checked out the above. Many are interesting and look helpful. One that was not listed that has helped increase my productivity and get to the end of my to list is the Foresight product. Check it out at enhanceyouroutlook.com
  • Niyaz · 1 year ago
    Great list!!!
    Was helpful...
  • intowindows · 1 year ago
    Great post brother..Thanks.
  • Mike Jones · 1 year ago
    Thanks for the list. I have found plaxo to be fantastic as I can ask people to update their own information in my contact book and I sync contacts between my different computers using plaxo. I have had it for four years and have had no spam or securuty issues.
    I am installing xobni now!
    Mike
  • nicoposting · 1 year ago
    good article, thanks for the tips
  • Solid Blogger · 1 year ago
    It's quite a useful list man. I am very addicted to outlook. This will surely help me. Thanks
  • coool · 1 year ago
    Cool article
  • Tom At The Home Business Archi · 1 year ago
    Thanks for the list.I have been using Outlook, but I need to take advantage of the other stuff as well.
  • Bill M · 11 months ago
    Good List - I personally use the Google Calendar Sync
  • The Moneyac · 11 months ago
    Wow great list.

    I am using outlook every single day, and to be honest I had no idea about these plugins, great list ! Thanks.

    Cheers,

    The Moneyac
  • Nicholas | pixobyte.com · 11 months ago
    Wow.. gr8 collection.. of outlook addins.. really cool. Thanks for sharing!
  • Internet Business Mentoring · 11 months ago
    Okay, you aren't going to believe this. But I never liked outlook for email. For me it wasn't a clean, template design and I just didn't favor it as my primary email account.

    After seeing these plugins I am thinking I may just have to get over it, as some would just make my life soo much easier.

    Thanks for offering this, you may have converted me back to Outlook...I will let you know

    Megan
    Internet Business Mentoring
  • oknazzz · 11 months ago
    cool, i like it
  • PS3 · 11 months ago
    Some cracking finds there, just a shame my works policy will not let me even install a screensaver, let alone outlook plugins.
  • Solid Blogger · 11 months ago
    Cool post. But you have missed several other plugins.
  • PS3 · 11 months ago
    Remembered to get back to this post from home and installed Easy To Add. Nice littel app, thanks.
  • andy · 11 months ago
    t’s quite a useful list man. I am very addicted to outlook. This will surely help me. Thanks :)
  • Motorcycle Trader · 11 months ago
    Great list... :) I have been using Outlook, but I need to take advantage of the other stuff as well.
    And dis is very helpful....
    Thnx buddy
  • Gautam · 10 months ago
    Great list there keith . . .
  • doktertomi · 10 months ago
    i need plugins to synchronize my contact between Outlook and my windows mobile's PDA. any suggestion?
  • luxorhotellasvegas · 10 months ago
    thanks for you post, really brilliant
  • Rico · 10 months ago
    Great stuff!

    I tried to find a regular copy of Outlook a while back...

    Is there one available (eg an 'a la carte' version' of Outlook)?
  • Randy · 10 months ago
    Definately try Plaxo! It is great for syncing several computers. I am a factory rep and we use it between all of our other reps and the main office to sync our contacts....one person makes a change and everyone elses info is updated for the contact
  • Armand · 9 months ago
    Great info. I only use MS Outlook for downloading emails and synchronizing my contacts. I don't know if there's anything more we can use :) thanks
  • KW at PerfectMOney · 9 months ago
    My comment is.is it really necessary to "pimp your out look out "if other email service already give you more then enough:yea the benefit outlook is we can work it offline,.however still I dont really feel Microsoft out look is important to work with email if the internet is not available
  • CPU · 9 months ago
    Hello! I am from Belarus. Therefore, I am sorry for my bad English.

    I have been reading your project techie-buzz.com via translate.google.com. Now I want to help you. ... Yesterday, I learned that you have the plugin, which is a serious error. Plugin - Top Commentators Widget. Error in plugin allows any user to take a place in the list of active commentators. To do this, leave only 1 comment! To this end, the visitor must:

    1. leave a comment
    2. specify any name that is already in the LIST Top Commentators (eg, Daniel),
    3. link to your site

    Now the list of Top Commentators, under the name Daniel will be a link on someone else's site.

    Detailed, I described here - http://www.vse-ok.com/2009/03/17/bag-v-plagine-...
  • Keith Dsouza · 9 months ago
    @CPU Thanks for the heads up, I will make the changes that fix this bug
  • Abalone Beads · 9 months ago
    Have to agree with KW. I'd rather stick with google mail than try to spruce up outlook.
  • Lydia from P Cube Services · 9 months ago
    Installed Xobni yesterday. The network report is not accurate. I emailed myself and did an analysis of me...
    I like the facebook and email by the hour reports.
  • Lydia from P Cube Services · 9 months ago
    Installed and used OuTwit today. The convenience of twitting in Outlook is good, but administration of another subfolder in my inbox plus juice usage outweighs the convenience.

    I'll continue twitting in twitter.
  • Crystal · 9 months ago
    This was VERY useful! In a google search for "free outlook add-ins", this was the best resource- thanks for helping me get organized :)
  • Alex · 8 months ago
    Hey

    I really like your list. Some of the tools are very cool. But when I want to search my mails in outlook is use neither xobni (it slows down my computer) nor google desktop search (I prefer a tool which searches only my mails, which is more specialized) but lookeen (www.lookeen.com).
    It is not for free, but this is the only negative aspect.
  • Pete Kepf · 7 months ago
    Too bad Live Search Maps doesn't work anymore. And the link, http://search.live.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&a... will tell you that this useful add-in is no longer available. I tried "Maps for Outlook" from an Atlanta-based company, installed it, and it worked for a couple of days, then disappeared. I've never been a big fan of Outlook anyway- going back to Google. It works.
  • john · 7 months ago
    Fantástic information. I got used with Xobni after a long battle to make it more accurate. I was not that trustful with first versio of Taglocity, but now is becoming more usable. I like to use de basic Google Search tool when I'm sure of what i want too.
  • Robert · 7 months ago
    You should also check out Gist (www.gist.com). It works with Outlook as well as Gmail and any other web-based information source (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) combining your contacts with news about them. Let me know if you're interested and I'll set an account up for you to try.

    Robert
    Gist, Inc.
  • Palmetto · 6 months ago
    These add-ons look potentially useful, but how do I install them? Looking in Outlook's Help utility for 'add-ons' didn't yield anything useful.

    Thanks for any light on this subject.
  • Keith Dsouza · 6 months ago
    @Palmetto Installing the add-ins is fairly simple, follow the steps listed below.

    Download the add-in to your PC.
    Close Outlook before you install the add-in (most add-ins require this so it is better to close Outlook yourself)
    Install the add-in software just like any other regular software, following the instructions
    Start Outlook to start using the add-in


    Let us know if you have any other questions.
  • Palmetto · 6 months ago
    Keith, thanks. I just assumed something had to be done manually to tell Outlook the add-in had been installed.