Workspaces are a lot like desktops, sometimes you need to organize them. Julia Brown offers tips on using tabs to make some sense of the mess.

Rob Novak says SNAPPS Labs will be making several product announcements over the next two weeks. The first is a Trash feature added into Lotus Quickr 8.5 that can remove obsolete files.

Chris Miller says the Lotus User Experience Research team is conducting user research this week and would like you to participate. You’ll attend a 60-90 minute online session as part of the study.

Andy Donaldson finds it useful to have your contacts stored in your mailfile. However. There are times when things don’t work quite the way you expect them to and tracking down the guilty "feature" can be a problem.

Perry Hiltz moved a user to a new Domino server, which seemed simple enough. Then all the Unread Marks changed and the user saw more unread mail then before. Perry provides a 20-step program on how to "fix" the problem.

The ZK team has integrated ZK Spreadsheet into IBM Lotus Domino XPages providing extension libraries to create a bridge for XPages and ZK. ZK Spreadsheet is an open source, embeddable web-based spreadsheet.

David Leedy has posted Episode 32 of NotesIn9. In this episode Peter Presnell provides a look at some of your options for testing XPage applications.

Gabriella Davis had been moaning about having to run a Windows VM just to use Domino Admin. Then she discovered the @Command([AdminRemoteConsole]).

Mary Beth Raven has posted some screen shots and explanations of new features you can expect to find in Notes 8.5.3. Henning Schmidt says the code has been frozen, so it should be available soon.

Mary Beth Raven is moving on to a less yellow world. She is leaving IBM for Solidworks. We wish her all the best in her new job. No word yet on who inherits her yellow wardrobe.