For users of MS Outlook

cavillas · Mar 17, 2009, 17:22:57

I have come across this application xobni. It does lots of things with your Outlook email and indexes everything in an easy to use form. Go to www.xobni.com to download it. Oh by the way it is completely free.

Rik · Mar 17, 2009, 17:31:45

Thanks, Alf, downloaded and off to install.

Lance · Mar 17, 2009, 18:35:46

Thanks Alf, installing as I type!

Rik · Mar 17, 2009, 18:46:00

I'm impressed, Lance. It does a neat job. Now, of course, I have to go and learn about Facebook.

Lance · Mar 17, 2009, 18:53:11

I'm quite impressed as well - I particularly like the conversation feature which would be useful at work. However, I thought it was slow to index just the recent email, and dread to think how long it would take on my work email account which has thousands of items (over 5000 sent items alone). Doesn't matter though as I'm still on Office XP at work and therefore can't use it anyway!

Rik · Mar 17, 2009, 18:57:22

It was the conversation feature which attracted me.

cavillas · Mar 17, 2009, 19:12:08

It dows say that it would take about 5 mins to do a first index, mypst file is 256mb so not as big as some.

Come on Rik jin the in crowd on Facebook, my grand daughter thinks I'm cool. What can be better than that.

Rik · Mar 17, 2009, 19:14:55

Care to give me a quick primer, Alf?

Ray · Mar 17, 2009, 19:20:32

Thanks, Alf, just downloaded and installed.

cavillas · Mar 17, 2009, 19:23:58

Quote from: Rik on Mar 17, 2009, 19:14:55
Care to give me a quick primer, Alf?

Metal or wood?

Rik · Mar 17, 2009, 19:25:21

If you're promising a rub down first...

Seriously, just what is Facebook about - I struggle to understand the purpose?

cavillas · Mar 17, 2009, 19:36:48

It's a way of keeping up to date with what friends and family are doing and keeping in touch. There are other strange things you can do on there, I just click away and see what happens. It is better than Messenger or email as if people are logged in they can respond immediatly or as soon as they want and you can more easily share photos, videos and other things with others.

It's really just another way of keeping in touch with added extras. I only join these things so I can keep an eye on the grand children to see what they are up to and report anything dodgy to their dad.

If you join then I'll be your friend Rik.

Rik · Mar 18, 2009, 09:28:41

I guess it comes down to whether you're a networking type, or go in for one-to-one communication then, Alf?

Gary · Mar 18, 2009, 09:36:26

Facebook has come under fire for privacy issues, I think they are all sorted but what hate is you cannot actually delete a profile, just put it into hibernation as such, I prefer more privacy and tbh hese sites are a minefield for virus laden apps and videos, I use Myspace bt so rarely now, and at last i can delete that account in its entirety if I want to, but they all are as bad as each other.

Rik · Mar 18, 2009, 09:38:44

Thanks, Gary, I've always felt a bit wary of them.

cavillas · Mar 18, 2009, 09:44:28

I think the secret of using facebook is not to download or open things that you know to be not right and to not join all those goups or games and definately don't put up any private information.

Rik · Mar 18, 2009, 09:46:22

Those were about my thoughts, Alf, so that means very little goes up then.

cavillas · Mar 18, 2009, 11:22:44

MMmmm!! Which way should I take that?

Rik · Mar 18, 2009, 11:28:44

Sideways.

Den · Mar 18, 2009, 21:20:40

Downloaded and 1st impression, very good indeed. Thanks

cavillas · Mar 19, 2009, 09:44:17

Silly me I did an image restore and forgot to re-install xobni, must do it soon.