Out here at Techie Buzz we offer a environment friendly option for printing articles, however not every website out there does that, so how do you get over it and print only what you want?

Printee for Internet Explorer is a IE add-in that will allow you to remove unwanted things from a webpage and print only the things you want.

Once you install the add-in you will see a additional button in the toolbar, clicking on it will show you several options, like removing images, removing backgrounds, deleting sections and more.

The best thing about printee is that it allows you to make these modifications on the webpage itself. We recommend users to download and use this add-in to save printing costs.

Printee is only available for IE right now, if you are looking for solutions for browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox or Opera you might want to take a look at previously covered service Print What You Like which also has a handy Firefox add-on.

Download Printee

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If you receive your voicemail email alerts in Microsoft Outlook a handy Outlook add-in called Visual voicemail will come in pretty handy to decipher and view the caller data.

Visual Voicemail is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2007 that processes voicemail messages from Vonage, Comcast Digital Voice, YouMail, and many other voicemail systems, to provide key information about the caller using information from your Outlook Contacts.

The information displayed will not be displayed if the user does not exist in your address book, however it is still better than staring at the plain text messages you have been used to seeing.

Download Visual Voicemail Add-in [via Addictive Tips]

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Outlook Connector is basically a Outlook Add-in that allows users to access their Windows Live Mail accounts in Microsoft Outlook.

You can download the latest version of Outlook Connector using the links below.

• Outlook Connector for Office 2010 x86 edition (direct download link)
• Outlook Connector for Office 2010 x64 edition (direct download link)

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Most of the times the original conversation is of no use, and it would be good if you could remove them and save space.

Doing that manually can turn out to be quite a bit of pain, however a tool called Thread Compressor for Outlook could be of immense help, it’s an Free Outlook add-in to Outlook which removes unnecessary emails, on the assumption that most people reply to mail and leave the original intact, so you could keep the last mail in each branch of a thread, and remove all the others.

Using Thread Compressor you can optimize Outlook by freeing up a lot of disk space, this add-in works in Microsoft Outlook 2007 and other older versions.

Download Thread Compressor for Outlook [via TechNet]

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Such moments lead to embarrassments when you receive a reply saying that the attachments were not included in the message.

A free Microsoft Outlook add-in called Missing Attachment PowerToy can save you some embarrassment by alerting you that no files have been attached to the email, before you send out the email.

When the Missing Attachment PowerToy detects outbound email messages containing words which you typically use when including attachments, it will offer you an opportunity to revise the email before Outlook sends it on its way! Works only with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

If you are looking for more free Outlook add-ins take a look at our earlier post: 12 Must Have Useful and Free Microsoft Outlook Add-ins.

You will have to enter your email address where for receiving the link to the download.

Download Missing Attachments PowerToy for Outlook 

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Flickr4Word is a handy freeware Microsoft Word add-in that will allow you to insert Flickr images into Microsoft Word documents.

When you create a new document in Word, you can now directly access your Flickr(tm) services from Word and insert images into your mail messages.

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Outlook in itself is quite sufficient for most users but there are quite a few tools which make using Outlook a much better experience. In this post we will look at the top 12 add-ins for Microsoft Outlook which will make it more useful in your day to day life.

Xobni

If you have been using Outlook for quite some time you may be stuck with tons and tons of emails which may be difficult to find when you want. Xobni (our favorite add-in) is a Outlook plug-in that helps you organize you emails and quickens your search for email and attachments.

For those who think of the name as a bit weird, it is Inbox spelled backwards.

Xobni provides you with lots of features which include

• Lightning fast email search.
• Threaded Conversations.
• Email Analytics.
• Quick attachment discovery.
• Navigate your inbox by people.Blog
• Extracts Phone numbers from emails and associates it with contacts.
• Helps you easily schedule appointments with your contacts.

Download Xobni

Outlook Duplicate Item Remover

Over a period of time Outlook may contain lots of duplicate emails, events, contact information and notes. Tracking and removing the duplicate entries can become quite a hassle.

The problem with having duplicate entries for email, contacts, calendar and notes can be easily tackled with a very useful and handy add-in called Outlook Duplicate Item Remover (ODIR).

Read our review of Outlook Duplicate Item Remover to learn more about it.

Download Outlook Duplicate Item Remover

Taglocity

Another Outlook add-in which makes email overload a thing of the past. Taglocity allows you to add in the much needed feature of tagging emails, tasks, contacts and calendar entries.

Tags as most of you must know by now make your life much more easier with finding content and Taglocity adds that missing touch to Microsoft Outlook. Read more in our review of Taglocity.

Request Taglocity Beta Invite

Google Calendar Sync

Google Calendar Sync is not exactly a Microsoft Outlook add-in, but we recommended this utility for those who want to synchronize their calendars between multiple Outlook installations.

To synchronize your calendar between multiple Outlook installations download and install Google Calendar Sync on both PCs. You can then use your Google account as a central storage for calendar events and keep both your Outlook installations in sync.

When you add or update events in one PC, the Google Calendar Sync will automatically add it to your Google Account from where the software installed on the other PC will download the event and add it to your other Outlook installation. As simple as ABC.

Download Google Calendar Sync

Easy2Add

Easy2Add is a neat little add-in that allows you to quickly add events to your Outlook Calendar, the interface is quite similar to adding quick events to Google Calendar and can come in quite handy when you want to quickly add a event without opening the Outlook Interface.

You can type the events in plain English and Easy2Add will automatically take care of adding the event.

Download Easy2Add

Live Search Maps

Got an appointment in 10 minutes but don’t know the directions to get there the Live Search Maps add-in will direct you to your destination.

The Live Search Maps add-in shows you directions and travel times to your destinations all within the comfort of Outlook.

Download Live Search Maps

Social Networking Microsoft Outlook Add-Ins

If you are into social networking and don’t want to hop skip and jump to various websites to network with you friends and family, here are some add-ins that you save you time and keep you productive too.

OutSync

OutSync is a Microsoft Outlook add-in that will automatically sync photos of your friends from your Facebook account with those present in your Outlook contact list.

Download OutSync

FBLook

FBLook or Facebook for Outlook allows you to easily update your Facebook status from within Outlook. It also allows you to set the status to the song you are currently playing on Windows Media Player or iTunes. Read our review of FBLook.

Download FBLook

OutTwit

OutTwit is a tool that brings Twitter to Microsoft Outlook. Using the tool you can easily update your Twitter status and follow your friends from right within Outlook.

The tweets from your friends are saved as emails into a separate folder you choose. Read our review of OutTwit

Download OutTwit

Other tools Worth Mentioning For Microsoft Outlook

Outlook Personal Folders Backup

As the name suggests the Outlook Personal Folders Backup allows you to easily backup your PST (Personal Folder) files and store it in a safe location.

Learn More and Download Outlook Personal Folders Backup

Google Desktop

Want the precision and lightning fast search capabilities of Google Search for your Outlook email? Google Desktop Search is one of the best available options that will allow you to quickly find emails that are buried deep inside your archives without going through much trouble.

They always say when nothing works try Google and it holds true for Google Desktop search for Outlook emails too .

Learn More and Download Google Desktop

OggSync

OggSync is another handy utility that will allow you to sync your Outlook contacts and calendar entry between Outlook and your Gmail account. The newer version supports all contact fields in your Gmail Address book.

Download OggSync

Summarizing

Well that’s a lot of useful add-ins to play around with but how can it be complete without you contributing your own useful add-ins to the list? I would love to hear what tools you use to make Outlook a better experience and definitely want to try it out. Do let me know about them through your comments.

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Fibby is a Windows Live Messenger add-in that will allow you to set your Windows Live Messenger Personal Status Message as the status you have in Facebook.

You do not need to keep updating the Windows Live Messenger as Fibby will automatically set the status for you after performing few steps to setup Fibby to be used with Windows live Messenger.

Instructions to setup Fibby With Windows Live Messenger:

• Open Windows Live Messenger, click your display name at the top of the window, and select Options from the drop-down menu (or type Alt-T and select Options).
• Select “Add-ins” from the items in the left pane.
• Click the “Add to Messenger” button and browse to the directory where you installed Fibby. The default location is Program Files\Fibby. Select the file “Facebook.StatusUpdater.dll”
• Fibby will start and prompt you through the next steps.

Once you have successfully added Fibby, you need to turn it on by clicking on your display name on the main Messenger window and selecting “Turn on Fibby”. (It may take up to a minute for your PSM to update.)

Requirements: Dot Net Framework

Download: Fibby

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