- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
- Date added: November 19, 2008
- Total Downloads: 32,085
- Downloads last week: 671
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 73 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Freeware Xobni integrates into your Outlook installation and shows you more about your e-mails than Outlook can itself. For each person who sends you e-mail, it shows you who else they frequently communicate with--their de facto social networks--and it also finds their phone number from inside their e-mails. It shows you all conversation threads you've participated in with the person, and all the attachments they've sent you. You can drill into message threads, and it has a snappy but redundant e-mail search engine built-in.
Unlike many other Outlook add-ons, Xobni seems to add its functionality without dragging down Outlook's performance, or worse, crashing it. It's useful and it doesn't get in the way. There's no reason not to try it.
Still in beta, Xobni the app runs on Xobni the platform, which has hooks deep into Outlook. The platform is what enables Xobni to graft a viewing pane into Outlook, something other plug-ins can't do, and it's the platform that gives Xobni access to all the message data that it uses without bogging down Outlook itself. Future plans for Xobni include integration into Outlook's default search bar and support for other e-mail apps like Yahoo and Gmail, and make the platform available to other vendors--all of which indicate that Xobni definitely wants to be here for the long haul.
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Publisher's description
From Xobni :Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that saves you time finding email conversations, contacts and attachments.
After a quick install, you'll see the new Xobni toolbar appear in Outlook - and suddenly information will become much easier to find. When a new email arrives, the sender's full communication history appears in the Xobni sidebar, including past conversations, attachments and contact details. Xobni also includes a blazing fast email search tool.
Version 5342 beta now adds photos and profile information for contacts registered on Facebook and LinkedIn, and can open conversations in Skype.
What's new in this version:
Version 5342 beta now adds photos and profile information for contacts registered on Facebook and LinkedIn, and can open conversations in Skype.
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Version: Xobni 5342 beta
Pros: Makes finding anything in Xobni a very fast proposition. E-mails, addresses, conversations, attachments... Xobni makes finding all of the above very fast. It's easy to use and understand.
Cons: There is a performance hit to Xobni, both in Outlook startup time, and it slows Outlook down a little in terms of moving email from folder to folder etc. Limited to OL2003 and 2007. There are often double entries for emails in Xobni's interface.
Summary: Provided you're not on a slow computer, Xobni is a very valuable add-on to people with lots of e-mail.
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Version: Xobni 5342 beta
Pros: When this product is working it makes finding email addresses and specific topics quite easy. I look forward to re-installing it as soon as the bugs are worked out.
Cons: Once installed and indexed the program initially worked well although it slowed down the functioning of Outlook. After two months the program suddenly lost all of the indexing. After several attempts to re-index I gave up and removed the program.
Summary: I liked all of the intended functions of this program - as soon as I learn that the glitches are worked out I will be eager to reinstall it. I would be happy to pay a reasonable price for the improvements it brings to Outlook search alone. It does c... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Xobni 5342 beta
Pros: Nice idea but renderered my Outlook useless
Cons: After instllation Outllok took over a minute before I could use it. I'm running a fast Core 2 with Outlook 2007 and 2gb of ram
Summary: Great prouct in theory but way too slow for me
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