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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
- Date added: October 15, 2009
- Total Downloads: 68,721
- Downloads last week: 8,938
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 68 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on July 14, 2009
The Xobni Outlook add-on is at its heart a tool to search for and find e-mail and contacts faster. As an interesting, but far less crucial, secondary function, Xobni also collects statistics, like the frequency you e-mail a contact and at which hour, that can eventually help you manage your social relationships.
Visually, Xobni displays as an attractive sidebar that slides in an out from the right and over the reading pane. It features a Xobni search bar, faster-acting than Outlook's own by miles, and a Google search bar for more general queries. The search results pull up people, messages, and the subject of e-mail attachments. You'll be able to interact with the profile, message, or files from there. When at rest, Xobni displays the profile it's collected on the contact--from a hyperlinked e-mail address and phone number to a Skype plug-in, Facebook picture, and LinkedIn profile, assuming the contact has enabled third-party sharing in his social network settings. You'll likewise be able to get at the contact's network, past conversations, and files from here.
Activate the premium version, Xobni Plus, for $30 (and a free, 14-day trial) and you'll open the door to broader search data (appointments and tasks), more powerful search terms (phrases and Boolean), and an advanced search builder. Xobni Plus also includes full text and direct e-mail filters. Best yet, Xobni Plus adds its index of e-mail addresses to the "To" field of every message you compose, sometimes replicating, but nevertheless vastly expanding, your address book.
Unlike many other Outlook add-ons, both free and upgraded versions of Xobni add functionality without greatly dragging down Outlook's performance. The interface doesn't get in the way, and, in fact, makes communication easier. Watch the CNET video review of Xobni:
Publisher's description
From Xobni :Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that saves you time finding e-mail 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 e-mail 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 e-mail search tool.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.8.3.8687 includes new Twitter extension that lets you see a list of recent tweets for every contact--right inside Outlook, reply to a tweet, retweet, follow or unfollow a contact on Twitter, and post a new Twitter status update from within Outlook.
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- Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 68 votes
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Version: Xobni 1.8.3.8687
Pros: I have not used it yet.
Cons: I haven't used it yet.
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Version: Xobni 1.8.3.8687
Pros: incredibly fast, easy to understand UI, good installation process
Cons: nothing so far...
Summary: Xobni integrates information from so many resources seamlessly together. Mining information into facebook, etc. and creation of user profiles ROCKS :-)
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Version: Xobni 1.8.3.8687
Pros: takes outlook to a level far beyond the average MS product...
the free version already very usefulCons: none, since most issues from earlier versions have been dealt with
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Version: Xobni 1.8.3.8687
"IMHO this awful it install itself without my permission"
Pros: Really good at installing itself and starts indexing all my personal stuff really fast...
Cons: It cam with another package and installed itself without my permission It send "anonymous" info about all my stuff to god knows where.
Summary: Any software that messes with my personal email & info without explicitly asking permission IMHO is a "virus"!!! I will never use the MAC crap.
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Version: Xobni 1.8.3.8687
"Too soon to teell anyrthing at all"
Pros: It appears to have organized all my email contacts. Then it searches the the outlook files and shows the recent emails for that person
Cons: I am not yet able to criticize the cons for the software. Time line is not yet long enough to make the cons known to me. I expect there may be some.
Summary: I downloaded Cnet nettracke and this file piggy backed it's way onto my laptop. I now find I must review a software that I am unsure ofthe pros and cons for the software
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