I’m not going to argue the point that Microsoft Outlook is a very popular email client, and it’s the most used, and desired, function of Microsoft Office, but I think at what cost are we using it?

Microsoft Office/Outlook 2007 is not my email client of choice, but I’ve to use it at work. Every job/office I know of uses Microsoft Outlook for their email clients and typically the machines Microsoft Outlook was loaded on was not a supreme machine.

So how’s this really productive? It’s not.

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Making Firefox that much easier to use a common goal of everyone. I found this plug-in and I like how it works.

The basics of it are that when you double click a word(s) the terms can be searched by a quick popup window.

I thas some social and search functions from the popup that makes finding that unknown word or researhing a term very easy to research; even Twitter it.

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When I think of Microsoft Outlook, I think of a PIM, Email, tasks and calendar, but at the same time I think it’s bloated, not flexible enough a memory hog and the search functions are sorely lacking.

When you’re working with lots of information in one place you need to be able to get to that information fast. Having information at your finger tips is so valuable in a business relationship.

While Outlook does a good job, it’s not my choice. But recently XOBNI makes Outlook searches and information right where you need it.

But it’s not without sacrifice; the program/plug-in works in conjunction with Outlook typically drags down 200+mb [for me] and XOBNI is going to tack on and extra 20mb of memory as a separate ’service’.

Examples:

XOBNI is really good plug-in for Outlook, but it’s a loner right now. Only focusing on Microsoft Outlook. The group doesn’t have any plans to move beyond Microsoft Outlook. Other packages were left to flounder about. So Eudora, Lotus Notes, Thunderbird, Entourage, or Outlook Express may never get this plug-in.

I personally use Thunderbird and if a alternate to XOBNI comes to Thunderbird… I’m there.

Thanks for reading!

Enjoy.

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