After using it for a few weeks, I can heartily recommend Lookout, a search add-on for Outlook. At a minimal cost in background processing (and dollars), it provides near-instant search for content through your various Outlook forlders. For someone with hundreds of megabytes of info in online folders and archives, it’s priceless. Searches that Outlook would take minutes on for a single folder now pop up in seconds. I easily saved half an hour this week, which more than paid for the license. Good, good stuff.
I’m also becoming quite a fan of Jäger, a blogroll/RSS reader/updated stuff detector that works in conjunction with your browser. I’ve never quite gotten into RSS readers per se, but this does an even better job, IMO, of detecting updated sites and entries (it has alternatives to RSS feeds, for example). Some folks will find its use of the browser for actually showing pages a disadvantage (for at-work browsing, for example), but I find it a plus.
Nice little product.