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07 Oct 2004
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Platform: Windows XP
Manufacturer: Plaxo Inc
Size: 1.8MB
Number of Downloads: 1149
Price: null
Plaxo is from the co-creator of Napster, and is designed for use with Microsoft Outlook 2000/2002/XP and Outlook Express 5.0 or above. It automatically updates your address book when any fellow Plaxo user changes their contact details.
The first step is to select the contacts you wish to request updates from. An email is then sent to these contacts requesting any new contact details they may have (this email can also include your contact details if you wish).
When a contact replies, any new details they've sent are automatically added to your Outlook.
If any of these people then download and install Plaxo, any future changes to your contact details or theirs are updated automatically.
In other words, Plaxo is a peer-to-peer network, just like Napster was. Obviously, you need to be online in order for any updates to be made.
Disappointingly, Plaxo only works with Outlook and Outlook Express, and initial plans to make it compatible with other mail clients including Lotus Notes, Mozilla (Netscape) and Eudora seem to have been forgotten.
If you don't use Outlook products, you can always make use of the online version.
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Plaxo - DO NOT USE
After reading many spyware relating to Plaxo on the web, I gave it a chance and tried it out. But the software was interfering with my outlook and other software did not seem to operate normally onced I installed it. Once I uninstalled it, everything worked fine again. Thus, Plaxo is not a good software to use on my experience.
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