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SenderOK: Productivity Plugin For Outlook, GMail, Yahoo, Windows Live Mail

By Nakodari | Published: February 11, 2010

SenderOK is Windows only intelligent plug-in for Outlook 2007/2003 & Webmail(GMail, Yahoo Mail, and Windows Live Mail/Hotmail) that works on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. Outlook 2010 is not supported at the moment so we will only review the webmail feature in this post.

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14 New Features In Thunderbird 3 That Will Make You Rejoice

By Nakodari | Published: December 2, 2009

We have been covering Outlook 2010’s features in much detail, but since it won’t be released before June 2010, it is time to look at Thunderbird 3. There are 14 new noticeable features in Thunderbird 3 which are enough to make you ditch Outlook.

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Foxtract – Free Outlook Express Email Extractor & Recovery Tool

By Nakodari | Published: November 9, 2009

Foxtract is an opensource command line tool that can recover all emails from Microsoft Outlook Express instantly. Unlike other recovery tools that read the tree structure, it takes a different approach when extracting the emails from the Outlook Express data files.

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eM Client 2 – Alternative To Outlook & Thunderbird

By Nakodari | Published: September 27, 2009

I have a feeling that Microsoft Outlook might not survive longer than expected, while Thunderbird has finally gotten a serious competitor today.

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Recover Outlook Email Attachments

By Nakodari | Published: August 27, 2009

OLK Finder is a free tool that can help you recover accidentally deleted attachments. MS Outlook creates a temporary folder and saves the attachment over there as an extra precaution. This tool can be used to recover any temporary attachments that are stored inside this temp folder.

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Outlook HTML Messages To Plain Text Converter

By Nakodari | Published: August 6, 2009

If you use Outlook to manage all your incoming and outgoing emails, it is better to add some additional layer of security to it. There are various HTML messages that are actually spam, opening some of these HTML message can directly infect your computer. Wouldn’t it be nice if you can scan the email before opening it?

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Know Who Left The Voicemail Message With Visual Voicemail Outlook 2007 Add-In

By Nakodari | Published: July 21, 2009

If you have subscribed to a voicemail service that sends you email notifications of voicemail messages, then you will know how frustrating it can get to know the person behind the voicemail message. Most people survive on guessing the name of the person behind the voicemail, but you don’t have to do it anymore.

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Display MS Outlook Calendar And Tasks Items On Desktop

By Nakodari | Published: July 5, 2009

If you use MS Outlook to mark your calendar or note some tasks then there is a good news for you. DeskTask is a free tool for Windows that displays all your Microsoft Outlook Calendar and Task items on your desktop. With this tool you can now now manage the Calendar and Tasks straight from the desktop instead of having to visit MS Outlook over and over again.

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Iconix Finds Trusted Emails By Adding Visual Identity To Your Email Inbox

By Nakodari | Published: May 23, 2009

Iconix is a free add-on for both Internet Explorer/Firefox browsers and Outlook Express/2003/2007 desktop clients. It solves a very unique problem. Suppose you get an email from PayPal asking for some information, how would you know if it is legit?

Once Iconix is installed, it will scan all your emails when you visit your account and add Truemark icons before the sender’s name that it finds to be legit. It scans by sending some details of every email to the Iconix server and then determines whether the email is original or fake. It scans all emails in real-time and the process is relatively fast. The scanning takes place in the background and does not disturb your activity.

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2 Simple Tools To Manage Microsoft Office 2007 Add-ins

By Nakodari | Published: May 17, 2009

One great thing about Microsoft Office 2007 is that it supports add-ins. Whether it be Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, or PowerPoint, you can install add-ins instantly. The add-ins can be enabled/disabled in each one of these programs, but what if you want to manage all add-ins from one simple tool?

I have collected two tools that will help you in managing the add-ins across all Office apps.

OfficeIns

OfficeIns is a free portable tool that allows you to manage all add-ins from one simple window. It is developed by the great folks at Nirsoft, who apps I have previously reviewed here, here, here, and here. All you have to do is run the app and it will automatically list the detected add-ins.

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Find The Number of Emails Arriving Per Hour, Week, Or Day

By Nakodari | Published: May 17, 2009

You wake up every day and find your inbox cluttered, how would you know at which time most emails are arriving? Ofcourse, a time is written next to each email. But wouldn’t it be great if we could generate a report that can give us a more clear picture, telling us at which exact time most emails arrive?

If you use Outlook, then there is an add-in for it called Outlook Performance Reports Generator. It does exactly what the name says, you can generate a report by Message amount, Message bandwidth, Sender, and Recipient. To create a new report, first select a folder(you can select multiple folders), choose a report type, select the time(hour, day, or week), and finally click Generate Report.

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Save, Extract, And/Or Remove Attachments From Microsoft Outlook

By Nakodari | Published: April 15, 2009

Outlook Attachment Remover is a free add-in for Microsoft Outlook that lets you remove, save, and extract attachments from emails. If you are receive frequent attachments, you can extract them all to a folder and/or remove them from the emails. What makes this add-in unique is it’s ability to replace the attachment with a link to the file.

Before installing this add-in, make sure that Outlook is not running. Now install the add-in and launch Microsoft Outlook. A small Attachment Remover window will pop-up, you can position it wherever you like by dragging it around the screen.

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