Improve your Microsoft Outlook with Xobni

[HEXUS]

Xobni, a free add-on for Microsoft Outlook, provides blazing fast email search, automatic phone number discovery, threaded conversations, and much more. Currently only available as part of a closed beta, we've 50 beta invitations to give away to HEXUS readers.

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[Steven W]

Okay, so I work here, but I'm a reader too! I've nabbed one, looking forward to trying it out.

[Hasnath]

got one also, looks like it'll help rummaging through all those endless emails>
Thanks Hexus

[Funkstar]

Nabbed a copy. Thanks

[IBM]

Outlook 2003 or 2007 only. Drat.

[Parm]

I'm finding the threaded conversations feature to be very useful indeed.

[TheAnimus]

its .Net.

This is an issue because it means that you must have the .Net CLR running outlook thats exactly the same version as it expects. 1.x and 2.x don't play well with each other most noteably because of a breaking change in the DateTime struct.

Also it seams to have issuse when you've got 7 exchange mailboxes, and one IMAP.

However, i like the idea of what it does!

[Funkstar]

Also it seams to have issuse when you've got 7 exchange mailboxes, and one IMAP.

This is why public betas are a good thing

[TheAnimus]

Actually i have to say i rather like it (prase from me, thats a good thing).

Ok so its anoying that in the conversations with x, you can't right click and view in the main viewer, and it refuses to work with my bos's mailbox completely (i think the sync keeps canceling itself), but other than that, its quite good.

Well done guys, who brought this to your attention?

[Parm]

I found out about it via a beta invitation I'd received from a friend. Found it to be a handy little piece of software and thought I'd spread the word a little.

[Parm]

If the 50 HEXUS invitations do run out, I've got a few spare invitations left if anybody needs one.

[Steven W]

The conversations part is excellent. I use google mail as well and it already threads conversations, so it's nice to have the same feature on Outlook.

[Funkstar]

Well it tried it last night (kept forgetting about it) and it crashed outlook 2007. About 3 seconds after Outlook opened it goes white and the cursor spins.

Oh well. Shame really.

[Parm]

I'm using Outlook 2007 and it works flawlessly for me. What you done to it Funkstar? Own up.

[Funkstar]

No idea. Just installed it, restarted Outlook and it crashed.

Tried it a couple of times and it was the same. Uninstalled it and Outlook worked perfectly.

The only thing unusual that i can think of is I use active sync with my phone and I have a password protected PST that i usually just cancel the password box on.

Not got any other addons installed.

Oh and it's Vista Business 32bit

[Tobeman]

Installed, lets see how I get on Pushed a few buttons already and it seems intuitive, I especially like the phone number discovery.