I’ve seen this button before but never really thought about it I guess when I was editing a contact in my address book in Outlook 2007.
When you click on it, it lets you browse through all of you contacts and you can add a contact into this field.
My question is what’s it for?
Is it letting me link contacts to each other in some sort of relationship? Are there tasks and controls I can use to manipulate or view contacts by their relationships assigned in this field?
I can’t even find anything about it online when I did a quick …read more

 
Today as I was working on developing some items for clients, I was reminded of another small frustration I have with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. The application is built for email management right? I use it to quickly and efficiently send emails to friends, family, business colleagues, prospective clients, etc.
Why isn’t the “Send Email” link one the first level menu when you right-click on a contact in your address book? In fact, why should I have to right-click on a contact at all. There should be a little email envelope icon right next to their name or something that would …read more

I’ve been using Xobni for awhile now ever since I found it and downloaded it initially. I wrote about my experiences with the application. I’ve found that it’s really helpful in a variety of instances when looking for information in e-mail that’s in context with the task you’re trying to accomplish at the moment.
The service is now out of private beta and anyone can download and install it to see for themselves.
I’ve heard some people say that Outlook slowed down tremendously after they installed it, but I haven’t noticed anything like that up until this point during my …read more

Since I’ve been playing with Xobni more one question I’ve come across is why doesn’t Xobni use Outlook’s own contact photo information?
That was somewhat of a rhetorical question because I didn’t really need an answer and it wasn’t worth completely pursuing for an answer.
What it did do though was make me wonder where Outlook keeps it’s contact photo information? I’m curious because I love that my phone displays the contact photo on CallerID when that person calls me. It makes it really easy to see who’s calling you with a quick glance at your phone if you’re in a …read more

It’s been a few weeks now since I got the invite to download, install and begin using Xobni. I’ve got to tell you folks, this very well may be one of the most ingenious applications ever added into a member of the Microsoft Office family.
In a quick summary; Xobni incorporates itself into Outlook as an additional pane of information. It collects and efficiently presents information related to the selected sender or recipient of the e-mail that is chosen.
Let’s take a quick review of the different sections of information available in the main info pane of the Xobni panel.
First, …read more

How many addresses do you have in your auto-complete history? How many of those are for people you e-mail regularly but aren’t added into your address book? If you wanted to send an e-mail to everyone you e-mail regularly, in and out of your address book, how would you do it?
If you didn’t know, and I didn’t until I read this post from Jason Powell, there’s a handy little tool that will read your auto-complete file and let you manage those addresses.
A couple minutes of Googling and I landed on a very small free app called NK2.info http://www.nk2.info/

NK2.info is a …read more