How to use Facebook and Twitter from Outlook

July 21st, 2010

Facebook + Outlook = FBLook

If you are an Outlook user, you probably have it open all the time. Now you can update your Facebook status, see your friend statuses and see the number of new requests without having to open the browser or any other applications. FBLook seamlessly integrates Facebook into Outlook.

Features

  • Update your Facebook status directly from Outlook.
  • Set your status to the name of the song you’re playing in iTunes or WMP.
  • See your friend statuses.
  • See notifications of new Friend Requests, Messages, Invites, Pokes, etc..

Configuration and Setup

After you install FBLook, you will have to tell Facebook that you want to allow FBLook to access Facebook on your behalf. Facebook has a fairly intricate way of doing that, which will require you to flip between Outlook and the browser a few times. After you click FBLook’s “Login to Facebook” button, FBLook will display several messages to guide you through the process. That process consists of three or four steps. But don’t worry; you’ll have to do that only once. After you login and tell Facebook that you allow FBLook to update your status, it will be smooth sailing.

FBLook System Requirements

  • Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 with the latest Service Pack.
  • Outlook 2003, 2007 with the latest Service Pack.
  • FBLook does NOT work with Outlook Express.

DOWNLOAD: FBLOOK

OutTwit – Twitter for Outlook

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

outtwit-twitter-for-outlook

  • Update your Twitter status directly from Outlook.
  • Receive your friend updates as Outlook messages.
  • Configurable new message check interval.
  • Assign custom categories to new messages.
  • Shorten URLs with tinyurl.
  • Archive, manage and search your tweets the same way you manage your email.

DOWNLOAD: OutTwit