Spice up your Outlook

Most of the people I know who use Outlook are corporate drones. Here's a way to spice up Outlook and add, shall I say it, a sprinkling of "social networking" to it (gasp!).

Download XOBNI, an Outlook attachment that scans your data of e-mails and spits out interesting facts about the people you send or receive e-mails from. Before you write this off as a totally frivolous piece of software know that it does provide interesting facts such as who your top e-mail recipients are, what time they usually send their e-mails (etremely useful so you know when to check your e-mails) and it lists the latest correspondence you've had via the title of the e-mail (if you want to drill down to the contents you can do that also).

It currently only works on Outlook 2003 and 2007 although they are working on a Yahoo Mail application, no word on when that will come out.