(covered here and here) is one of those programs I sincerely want to like. The Microsoft Outlook add-on that can populate an Outlook contact field in a click has a catchy name invoking all manner of iconic 'wabbit' images, and a concept applicable to the breadth of office employees. However, it's also got a finicky algorithm, at least in my case, too much manual labor involved to finish populating an incomplete contact record, and a $20 price tag for a version 1.0 app that may only work half the time.

Gwabbit can populate your Outlook contact list with details from an e-mail.

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In Gwabbit's defense, when the application behaved as promised, it did so well. When Gwabbit detects an e-mail in the reading pane or when an e-mail is fully opened, the application first searches for as much information as it can in the e-mail address and signature block. Gwabbit then checks if the sender is already an Outlook contact. If not, or if the contact details have changed, Gwabbit will notify you--within about five seconds--with a pop-up alert from the Gwabbit toolbar it installed. If you accept the contact's inclusion, you'll have the person's full details pasted into a record without ever having to retype phone numbers, their title, and so on.

Unfortun

ately for me, Gwabbit often got confused. It repeatedly attempted to record the all-clear tag that AVG Anti-Virus pastes to the bottom of incoming messages as my contacts' company addresses. It also tried creating an entry that paired my CNET signature with my coworker's e-mail address--more than once. Sadly, even when I went through the trouble of highlighting a clearly delineated signature block in Gwabbit's internal viewer (labeled "Improve Results,") the program failed to grab the signature.

Gwabbit Outlook add-on is pwetty wame

Despite a neat, timesaving concept, Outlook add-on Gwabbit proved to be a butterfingers in our tests, letting too much contact information swip frough its widdle wabbit fingers.