On January 24 the Lotus Development and Support Engineers will host an Open Mic call on "Recent Contacts and the New Type-Ahead feature in Lotus Notes 8.5.x Standard". The presentation will last about an hour.

Dave Hay has posted a link for downloading the latest version of Symphony. He’s included a couple of links to Ed Brill’s blog for more information.

Chris Miller has posted an IdoNotes podcast on cool ways to take notes using downloadable presentations during Lotusphere.

Luis Suarez has been living without e-mail for four years. He was spending most of his time responding to e-mail back in 2008, now he spends a few minutes a day checking messages.

Michael Urspringer has found that, sometimes, the notifications in Quickr stop working. He’s posted instructions on how to re-enable the notifications in Quickr Connector.

This is a new Redbook that isn’t a Redbook, it’s a wiki. It covers a variety of subjects aimed at making development easier and less time-consuming.

Lotusphere is under way. Velda Bartek has posted some online activities for those who couldn’t make it to the big event.

Bogdan Chifor, Silanis senior technical lead for e-SignLive, will give a technical presentation during Lotusphere 2012’s. Look for his presentation in the Best Practices track.

Julia Brown says you can end all those terrible "red, unread message" calls by changing the colors displayed in your Inbox. She’s posted screen shots to show you how.

Rasmus Bauck is having some trouble with the fileuploader control in XPages. He’s posted a description of what he has, what works, and what doesn’t. If you can help, he’d like to hear from you.