We've all read those newspaper articles that talk about people who discover millions of dollars in rare coins in their attic, hidden away in a box that no one ever bothered to look into. It seems that valuable stuff turns up in some of the most unexpected places.

Your computer, for example, is a treasure trove of email addresses, and I'm not talking about the ones that are in your Contacts list in your email program. You already know about those. I'm talking about the hundreds, if not thousands, of email addresses that are embedded in document files, web pages that you've visited, data output files, logs, and forgotten email databases. Chances are, since these email addresses are in your files, you already may have a personal connection to most of these folks. But how do you get to those email addresses, short of hunting through every file manually and handwriting valuable contact information on a notepad?

The easy answer is called Atomic Email Logger, and this app is a real gem. Atomic Email Logger searches your entire hard disk for email addresses that are contained within files, including the temporary files in your internet browser, and extracts all of the email goodness automatically, letting you export them to a text file, the clipboard, or any Microsoft Office application. It sounds too good to be true, but Atomic Email Logger delivers on its promises. Satisfied customers have reported discovering email addresses numbering in the thousands using Atomic Email Logger!

Not only is Atomic Email Logger an invaluable tool to harvest email addresses from your existing data, the program is also extensible with plug-ins that allow you to find even more email addresses in email inboxes, compressed Outlook PST files, spreadsheets, and archived files!