Following months of beta testing, Apple Inc. next week will address one of the key weakness of its iPhone handset by introducing improved support for enterprise level e-mail platforms from Microsoft and IBM, according to one Wall Street analyst. In a ...

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Thursday, February 28th, 2008 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Here are a beautiful set of 1972 Rogers drums from my collection which I will be putting up for sale. The kit consists of a 5 x 14 Dynasonic snare, 8 x 12 tom, 9 x 13 tom, Two 16 x 16 floor toms and a 14 x 22 bass drum. If you know anybody who is looking ...

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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 | Comments (2) | Google it!

A friend of mine is currently trying to gauge the IBM Lotus Notes market to find out how many Lotus Notes shops are currently working with Salesforce.com products as well has how many shops are considering bringing in Salesforce.com into their organizations. ...

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Monday, February 25th, 2008 | Comments (8) | Google it!

Nathan Freeman, Chris Whisonant, Julian and I talk about the Lotus911 BleedYellow.com site which was launched prior to Lotusphere2008 on Episode 79 of The Taking Notes Podcast. More ...

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Sunday, February 24th, 2008 | Comments (3) | Google it!

I have some users who have Notes 8.x and are trying to test out Audio/Video using the embedded Sametime client. In the Sametime Preferences the options for microphine, video camera and speakers are greyed out. Poking around in the policies I didn't find ...

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Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | Comments (7) | Google it!

I caved in and put the Macbook Air down to install the Notes 8.0.1 client on my workstation and I have to say - job well done Lotus Engineering. The client is snappy, my Notes client applications are snappy again, having widgets in the sidebar is cool and I ...

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Thursday, February 21st, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 | Comments (12) | Google it!

Post Lotusphere 2008 my LinkedIn network has grown substantially. Thanks again to Henry for getting me hooked ...

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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 | Comments (9) | Google it!

Arthur Fontaine and Brian Reed from IBM talk to Julian and I about Lotus Protector which will be released later this year on episode 77 of The Taking Notes Podcast. More ...

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Monday, February 18th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Once in a while I take a peak at the download statistics for The Taking Notes Podcast and today I discovered that the episode we did with Shawne Robinson of IBM covering Lotus Notes Traveler has almost 4,000 downloads. IBM has also linked to this episode on ...

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Sunday, February 17th, 2008 | Comments (1) | Google it!

The amazing Dom ...

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Sunday, February 17th, 2008 | Comments (8) | Google it!

Julian and I had the pleasure of interviewing John Head of The PSC Group and John de Gorgio of Integra4Notes. We talk about Notes and Office integration as well as Notes and Lotus Symphony integration. Lots of good stuff including predictions about the ...

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Sunday, February 17th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

As Matt noted on his blog yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with my favorite podcaster Ken Ray a.k.a. Mac OS Ken. The interview I did with Ken appeared on today's episode of Ken's paid subscription based podcast "Mac OS Ken Day 6". In the interview ...

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Saturday, February 16th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Call Recorder is the Skype add-in for the Mac that Julian and I use to record the Taking Notes Podcast with. It's easy to use and as you can hear based on the audio quality of the podcast. It's inexpensive ($14,95 US) and easy to use. Version 2.3 adds ...

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Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Then you must read Mitch Cohen's blog entry titled "Lotus Connections Requirements and Architecture - Part 1 Components of Connections". Also be sure and read the comments. Good stuff. More ...

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Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Holy cow I almost dropped my coffee mug while listening to this mornings episode of the Mac OS Ken podcast where at approximately 6:40 Ken breaks into a discussion about Lotus Notes on the iPhone and iPod Touch. I believe I wrote Ken about this during ...

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Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | Comments (1) | Google it!

John Head had an excellent blog entry about IdeaJam today where he says: IdeaJam has given many people hope of a collaborative environment. My question is, does a post on IdeaJam really have enough weight to make an impact on average. Sure, Mary Beth ...

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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Trend Micro's virus Pattern 995 made my day extremely crappy. Not only was it causing excessive traffic on the network but, Windows was acting like a pig which in turn made accessing email and other programs difficult at best. If you are a Trend customer ...

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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 | Comments (6) | Google it!

IBM rolls out Idea Exchange for IBM Business Partners on Partnerworld (complete with an executive signature on the home page): No time for me to explore Idea Exchange but, if anybody has and would like to describe their experiences please comment. Oh ...

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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 | Comments (8) | Google it!

Note the new List and Folder view options. Here is the new List View when you click on a folder in the Dock: The grid view also has an updated background ...

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Monday, February 11th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Time to go order one of ...

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Monday, February 11th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

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Sunday, February 10th, 2008 | Comments (3) | Google it!

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Saturday, February 9th, 2008 | Comments (3) | Google it!

After reading Mary Beth's post on whether or not to include RSS in the mail file I reflected back on of my Lotusphere 2008 sessions where I took a poll to see how many people were using RSS. Suprisingly only about twenty percent of the room raised their ...

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Friday, February 8th, 2008 | Comments (9) | Google it!

Bella Luna our six month old English Springer Spaniel is following in the championship footsteps of her older brother Domino Designer. Here she is back at a show in January which we unfortunately had to miss due to ...

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Friday, February 8th, 2008 | Comments (3) | Google it!

DBAmp is a tool that I use to mirror and synchronize data on Salesforce.com with my local SQL Server databases. This allows my Lotus Notes applications to work with data on the local SQL database and then have it automagically synched back up to the ...

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Friday, February 8th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

More and more Notes/Domino developers are having to integrate there applications with applications built on Salesforce.com. Lotus Notes and Domino play very well with Salesforce due to the ability for Notes and Domino to publish and consume web services. ...

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Friday, February 8th, 2008 | Comments (2) | Google it!

IBMer's Art Thomas, Andre Guirard and Maureen Leland are now providing their feedback on ideas in IdeaJam. Coincidentally this idea appeared on IdeaJam earlier today: ...

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Thursday, February 7th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

I was poking around on the fabulous PlanetLotus.org today and ran across this interesting statistic: Microsoft is one of the top keywords in blog posts. For a site and community dedicated to all things Lotus I find we spend way too much time talking ...

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Thursday, February 7th, 2008 | Comments (19) | Google it!

Then you have to think seriously about becoming a sponsor for one of the greatest Lotus events ever - yes I said ever! Read how your company can be a sponsor of the Irish Lotus User Group (ILUG) which will be held in Dublin, Ireland from June 4-6, 2008. ...

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Thursday, February 7th, 2008 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Ed Brill, Julian Robichaux and Jess Stratton at Lotusphere 2008 Photograph by Christopher ...

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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 | Comments (8) | Google it!

Building the Perfect Beast: Birth of IdeaJam Bruce Elgort, Matt White, and Sean Burgess Take a look at what it took to build the IdeaJam site. From conception to production, Bruce and the gang will walk you through the whole process of making a Domino ...

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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 | Comments (4) | Google it!

Have you ever noticed then we you go to a Domino based website and sign up for an account you typically have to wait a few minutes for your account to become active? Yes I know there have been ways to work around this from a development and administrative ...

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Monday, February 4th, 2008 | Comments (5) | Google it!

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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 | Comments (16) | Google it!