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     MAPILab Toolbox (25 June, 2009)

MAPILab Toolbox is a set of 18 different add-ins for Microsoft® Outlook® for the price of one! You can use all or only necessary add-ins from the list, and we are sure that everyone will find this tool useful and irreplaceable. It will help you to schedule message sending; access files from your computer through email; autofill message fields upon creation; plan the quantity of messages to be sent within a specified time-frame; get reminders from Outlook via sms; manage your mailing lists, contacts and conversation; redirect your messages and more.

  1. File Fetch
    Now you can receive any file from your computer to your e-mail! In complete safety: you can limit the folder list from which you can take files, to specify the file list to be sent on your request, set a password on the file request and set a password to the archive holding the file being sent. Even if somebody finds out how to request the file he/she won’t be able to access it from the sent archive! Do you often get phone calls with a request to send you a price list? Now you can reply: “send me an e-mail with the words “price list” as the subject and my computer will immediately send me this latest copy at any time of the day”.
  2. File Send Automatically
    As soon as you change the price list do you have to send it to all your partners? This plug-in for Outlook will do it for you automatically: it will “keep an eye” on the specified files and as soon as they get changed will send them itself. You will have time to correct a mistake: you can ask it to wait a few seconds or even hours after the file has been changed before carrying out its task – thus, you will have time to correct the document. And it is not necessary for you to remember whether you have sent it or not!
  3. Attachments Forget
    This small plug-in for Outlook will ask you whether you have forgotten to attach the promised file, in case it doesn’t see any attachment in a message containing a phrase similar to “see the attachment”.
  4. Attachment Options
    Have you ever faced the situation where Microsoft Outlook blocks an attachment considering it insecure? This plug-in for Outlook will allow you to specify the types of attachments that should be treated as secure or insecure.
  5. E-mail Scheduler
    Do you have to send identical messages again and again (say, every Friday)? This plug-in for Outlook will do it for you! You can attach files to the message as well as specify the paths where the attached files to be can be found so the process can be almost fully automated. Do you have to send new documents to the central archive every evening? No problem!
  6. Task E-mail Scheduler
    An alternative variant of previous plug-in. You can create a task, attach a message to it and specify a key word. The message attached to the task will be sent when the task is activated.
  7. E-mail Reminder
    Are you out of the office on a regular basis? This plug-in for Outlook will resend your reminders about meetings and tasks to your pager, cell phone or PDA using e-mail! Practically all cell operators have a channel between e-mail and SMS that is why this plug-in is compatible with any mobile device!
  8. Batched Mail
    This is a unique plug-in for Microsoft Outook! If your provider limits the number of messages you send this plug-in is for you! Now you can specify the maximum number of messages to be sent during an hour. If there are a lot of messages waiting for their turn to be sent in your Outbox you can specify the plug-in to send the messages marked with high importance out of turn.
  9. Contacts Journaling
    Did you know that you can enable journaling for a contact? Enabling you to trace the correspondence with this person. But for some reason you can do it in Microsoft Outlook only for each contact individually and only in the main Contacts folder! We have corrected this odd situation: now you can enable journaling for all contacts in all folders at once.
  10. Mailing List Services
    Do you need to take all the addresses of the people who wrote to you about a particular error and send them a universal answer? No doubt you extracted the senders’ addresses from their messages one by one. But only if you don’t have ‘Mailing List Services’! It can store chosen addresses in files of various formats, add them to your address book, contacts or mailing list. The address source can be messages, contacts as well as files on disk.
  11. Message AutoFill
    Do you always have to send a message copy to your boss if you answer a message in the folder named “very important”? Or do you always have to use a certain account if you send a message located in the “My Yahoo mail” folder? All this and a lot more will help you to automate Message AutoFill.
  12. Hide Fax Numbers
    If you store phone and fax numbers in your contact folders it may become difficult with time to find a contact when you create a new message. Our plug-in for Outlook allows the hiding of fax numbers from the contact details list to make choosing the contact you need easier and to help avoid sending the message to a fax instead of an e-mail.
  13. Subscription Manager
    Provide your respondents with an opportunity to manage their subscription to your mailing lists on their own! Your respondents can include and remove themselves from mailing lists in your contacts folder all by sending an e-mail with a special command in the subject line. In many cases it’s much more convenient than using subscription management scripts on a web site or using services like Yahoo Groups.
  14. vCard Converter
    If you need to save your data in the vCard format or to update your contacts using the data in the vCard format, vCard Converter is created to help you. It will allow you to import any files in the vCard format (.vcf files) as well as to save vCard data from the contacts, from messages into the contacts or files in the vCard format.
  15. Find and Replace
    This component is used for searching and replacing data in the folders of Microsoft Outlook. With the help of this plug-in for Outlook you can perform grouped data replacement of contacts, messages, tasks, notes, reminders and Journal entries.
  16. Email Redirect
    This component gives you the possibility to redirect messages rather than forward them. A new recipient will see the message exactly like you see it and will be able to answer this message using standard “Reply” without changing the recipient’s email.
  17. Reminders Assistant
    This component enhances the functionality of the standard reminder system of Microsoft Outlook and gives you a possibility to set reminders for each and every folder including embedded ones.
  18. Send If Approved
    This component gives you a possibility to control outgoing messages and send them only after approval. This component is simply indispensable when training new employees, whose competence is to deal with clients via e-mail.

     Power User Bundle (25 June, 2009)

Are you thinking about getting Attachment Save, Add Email Address, or Hide Fax Numbers add-ins? If so, then the Power User Bundle may be what you need. It includes three of the more popular add-ins for a single low price!

The Power User Bundle comes as 3 separate add-ins. You get:

Click on any of the above add-ins to find out more about the features of each one. They all work with either Outlook 2000, Outlook 2002, Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007. We think you’ll find that these add-ins form part of a reliable and flexible Outlook.

This bundle was created specifically from customer requests because so many of you have asked for a bundle that enhances normal everyday Outlook use, and you wanted a cost effective but complete solution. We think that this is it.


     Eliminator Bundle (25 June, 2009)

Are you thinking about getting more than one or two of our duplicate eliminator add-ins? If so, then the Eliminator Bundle is what you need. It includes all 8 of the duplicate eliminator add-ins for a single low price.

The Eliminator Bundle comes as 8 separate add-ins. You get:

Click on any of the above add-ins to find out more about the features of each one. We think you’ll find that these add-ins are an essential part of a dependable, reliable Microsoft Outlook solution.

This bundle was created specifically from customer requests because so many of you are experiencing trouble with PDA synchronization tools, Exchange server creating duplicates, import/export mistakes, or whatever causes your duplicates, and you wanted a cost effective but complete solution. We think that this is it.


     Business Bundle (25 June, 2009)

The Business Bundle comes as 5 separate add-ins, and each add-in solves a particular small business need. You get:

Each of these add-ins solves a particular small business need, and they all work with Outlook 2000 or better. Click on each one to find out more about it.

This bundle was created to serve the needs of the small office/home office user community. It is designed with the needs of the business user in mind, and was driven by customer demand. We think you’ll find that these add-ins form part of a robust small business platform for Outlook.


     Jeyo Mobile Extender for Outlook (13 June, 2009)

Jeyo Mobile Extender adds mobile text messaging capabilities to Microsoft Outlook through your Windows Mobile, Symbian, or Featurephone-based Smartphone. With the Extender installed, you can exchange SMS messages with other mobile phone users anywhere around the world directly from Outlook as well as automatically synchronize all of the text messages stored on your phone for easy offline browsing, printing, and searching. Jeyo Mobile Extender makes text messaging as simple and easy as email.

In fact, Jeyo Mobile Extender offers you better ways to send, receive, manage, and archive your mobile text messages, all using a PC application interface you are already familiar with. It also lets you do what is impossible from your mobile phone – you can compose and view messages written in a language that your phone does not support. When you use Jeyo Mobile Extender, you can “text message” from any place, at any time, and in any language.

Main features;

  • Synchronization of text message inbox sub-folders
  • Printing
  • Texting to distribution lists
  • Outlook-style new message notification
  • Support for Symbian S60/UIQ and Windows Mobile
  • Support for feature phones including popular Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung phones

     Jeyo Mobile Companion (13 June, 2009)

Jeyo Mobile Companion is a popular Outlook-style Windows Mobile device manager that allows you to manage and customize your Window Mobile device from your Windows PC. Its powerful threaded SMS chat mode enables you to communicate instantly with hundreds of millions of mobile phone users around the world using SMS directly from your PC, and manage all the important personal data on your Smartphone or Pocket PC phone. With Jeyo Mobile Companion you can get much more out of your PC and Windows Mobile device.

Benefits;

  • Extend mobile communication to your PC through your Smartphone or Pocket PC phone.
  • Exchange SMS messages and organize contacts with ease.
  • Backup your personal data from your Smartphone or Pocket PC phone.
  • Personalize your phone’s home screen and audio notifications from a slick PC interface.

Main features;

  • Powerful backup and restore with XML.
  • Universal contacts import.
  • Flexible data export.
  • Improved group messaging.
  • Outlook style preview pane for your SMS messages.
  • Threaded SMS messaging history.
  • Powerful SMS search.
  • Dial your phone from your PC
  • And much more!

     Jeyo (13 June, 2009)

Jeyo is an award-winning privately held software development firm that provides innovative applications and consulting services to the mobile community. Our software is bundled on millions of phones by manufacturers and carriers across the globe and is consistently among the top ranked for Windows Mobile devices.

Jeyo is U.S.-based and maintains offices in San Francisco and China.


     Dunes Outlook Backup (13 June, 2009)

Outlook Backup is a windows application to backup all your emails (password protected) and to restore them safely and easily. Not only emails, but also account setting, address books, blocked senders, signatures, rules and other mail settings (outlook) are backed up in a separate file. This assures you can access en receive your e-mails directly after a crash or problem with your mail.

Special Features

  • email synchronization (restores a segment of the emails by date, size and free selection)
  • auto backup sets a timer to backup your mails on a given date and time
  • Backup in zip format and sqx compression format
  • Transfer backup directly to a ftp server from within the program
  • Split your backup in adjustable parts for DVD’s, CD’s or on multiple flash drives

     Dunes MultiMedia (13 June, 2009)

Dunes MultiMedia is a design and software company located in The Netherlands.


     Xobni (13 June, 2009)

Free tool! Xobni is a free plugin that offers lightning fast email search and contact management. Xobni displays profiles from the web including: Facebook, LinkedIn & Hoovers. Bill Gates called xobni “the next generation of social networking.”

Main features;

  • Lightning-Fast Email Search
    Search email & people faster than you can type. Learn more
  • Stay in Touch
    Contact info, profile pictures, company info, job titles. All organized. Automatically. Learn more
  • Discover Connections
    Xobni searches the web for information about your contacts. Facebook, LinkedIn, Hoovers information & more, brought into Outlook. Learn more
  • Threaded Conversations
    Email how it was meant to be read, with conversations in context. Learn more
  • Find Attachments
    Historical attachments available instantly without searching. Learn more



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