Searching for stuff in MS Outlook

If you use Microsoft Outlook (not Outlook Express) and have ever tried to find an old email from your long lost uncle, you know that the "find" or search tool that comes with Outlook really stinks. It's slow, clunky and it just may find what you're looking for.

I'm sure you all use Google for your web searches. Wouldn't it be nice to have something like that for searching for stuff on your computer? Well Microsoft bought out a company that makes a search engine for all your emails called "Lookout" (yes, there's also Google Desktop, but that's a post for another day).

Lookout is a lightning fast search tool that allows you look up any word or phrase in any of the gazillions of emails that you have stored up over the past years. It's one of those cool tools that ya gotta have. You may think you don't need it, but once you use it you'll see what I mean.

It only works if you're using MS Outlook version 2000 or later, and on Windows 2000 and later. It also requires MS .Net Framework version 1.1, and it will prompt you to download it if you don't have it already. Installation is pretty simple and straightforward. You can get Lookout here: http://www.lookoutsoft.com/Lookout/download.html

This is one of those "really cool tools" that I have on my computer, and you should too :)