I wrote awhile back about Gmail not displaying images in my email messages, even though I’d told it to specifically always do so from specific senders. I had written this back in November of 2008 and up until now had continued to have issues. Recently I noticed that I was once again seeing graphics and now I don’t believe I’ve been having anymore issues. There was talk in the comments on the original post that it could be due to some Google Labs issues, but I never was able to confirm or fix anything there. Is everyone else noticing images again? Any ideas of what it was?

Also I’ve been a huge fan of Xobni since I first found out about it. I think it adds some great tools and features to Outlook that don’t exist. They continue to develop and improve the tool and expand the features. My problem though is it still brings my machine to a sluggish pace that’s just not acceptable. Honestly, part of the problem is probably with my machine. Pushing 4 years old and I put it through the wringer in my daily use. I uninstalled Xobni from my laptop, but when I get a new machine, Xobni will be one of the apps I’ll immediately reinstall and give it a try again.

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Gmail Fixed and Xobni Out Again

The challenge I saw with the first version I tried was that it seemed to significantly slow down the processing and open and closing of Outlook.

The new version I’ve been playing with now seems to be going a bit faster and they’ve continued to add new features. They used to only connect with LinkedIn to find out more information about your contacts. Now they also help you find your contacts profiles on Skype and Facebook and company information on Hoovers. Xobni also can integrate with your Yahoo! Mail address as well.

In a nutshell Xobni, which is "Inbox" spelled backwards if you hadn’t figured it out, allows you to quickly search for contacts and see a history and conversational listing of all contact with that person. Combining that information with the other profile information that’s now available from the other systems as mentioned above helps puts you on top of your email Inbox.

The other interesting feature of Xobni is to smash some analytics onto your email and start finding out about your emailing patterns and other details.

Instead of grabbing a bunch of screen shots from my installation, visit the Xobni website’s Learn More section for the different screens that are available. As I said, loads of information with Xobni.

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Trying Xobni Again with Outlook