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With your ever growing list of friends, client etc in your email address book and the strain  of keeping in touch with all of them can be telling on you. Web application Etacts pulls out all contacts and analysis reminds you to contact. It also offers you to review your previous messages to that person if any at that very moment. This you know where you stand. It support all email addresses from Gmail to Hotmail.

If you use Gmail, you have little advantage. You do not need to enter you password, you just enter your Gmail address in the text box and then you are asked if you would like to allow Etacts to access your Gmail inbox. If you allow then it will look for your email data and analyze. They also offer a Gmail plugin. For other email service providers, you will have enter both the email address and password.

It shows with whom you did most of the correspondence and the most least, number of to and from messages etc. In others words, it provides a statistics of your email account.

Spam emails are a known nuisance but what about all the chain mails forwarded by your friends cluttering your mail inbox and your lost which to check. In this clutter you may overlook important emails. Study suggests that emails are a distraction at workplace and lowers productivity. However, one cannot do away with emails as it is an integral part of communication.

Also, when you are not on the internet and what if you do not have Internet connection your phone. Well, we have Savior in this situation – AwayFind. AwayFind is a web application which delivers important emails as per the criteria set by you via call, SMS, IM, Twitter) or it can even deliver the message to your co-workers. AwayFind works by scanning your designated email inbox for emails as per the criteria set by you and when any such message arrives it delivers the message. Now for AwayFind to work this it requires access to your email inbox, so you will have to share your email account password with AwayFind. However, they claims that they save the password under various layers of security and it is secure. They support all IMAP email accounts like Gmail and working towards full compatibility with Hotmail and yahoo. They also have Gmail plugin to use this feature which can make your job much more easier.

As of now AwayFind is free in Beta version. However, they may charge for some features after the beta stage on a monthly basis. In most countries messages from cell operators are free in Beta stage. You may check the cell phone providers supporting this by clicking here.