Useful Sharepoint Designer Custom Workflow Activities

I was searching for a way to display a user's first and last name when sending an email notification through a SharePoint workflow. As you might know, when you do a lookup on a user field the property returned is the account name (i.e. Domain\JohnD). Since most users aren't in the habit of memorizing account names this isn't very helpful. Unfortunately there isn't a way to select the property of the user account when you perform a lookup...at least not out of the box.

Thanks to Google and Codeplex I was able to find a solution to this problem and much more.

Useful Sharepoint Designer Custom Workflow Activities

Massive thanks to Paul Kotlyar and all the developers of this project.