Today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire covers an Outlook add-in (see article below), an online school for legal bloggers, a business card scanning service, software for privilege logs, and a site that enables you to track content of interest to you. Don't miss the next issue.
Grab More Productivity From Outlook
Facebook and LinkedIn have nothing on Outlook. You may play in the former, but you work in the latter. Unfortunately, Outlook sometimes works you more than you work it — like when you want to add contact information from an email message to your address book. Ten copy and pastes later you're done. If only people used v-cards, you sigh. Well, they don't so stop dwelling on what might have been.
Gwabbit … in One Sentence
Technicopia's Gwabbit is an Outlook add-on that places contact information from email message into your address book with one click.
The Killer Feature
Do you ever wish your computer could better understand your needs? That's what Gwabbit tries to do.
If Gwabbit identifies contact information in an email message that does not exist in your address book, it will alert you in a pop-up window. Just click the Gwabbit button to transform that data into an Outlook contact.
Even better, Gwabbit recognizes changes in contact information and can update existing contacts.
Other Notable Features
Gwabbit doesn't just look for signature blocks. It can piece together contact information from different portions of an email message. Gwabbit can also properly capitalize names, streets, cities, states, etc.
You can control how Gwabbit works. For example, you can turn off automatic scanning of every message and instead use the Gwabbit button on the toolbar to manually scan messages that you select.
If Gwabbit doesn't work properly on a message, you can click the Improve Results button to send the message to Technicopia, which will use your feedback to improve Gwabbit so that it can handle similar situations in the future.
What Else Should You Know?
Gwabbit works with Outlook 2000 and later on Windows 2000 and later. You can try Gwabbit free for 14 days after which a license costs $19.95. Learn more about Gwabbit.
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