Chris Miller says response to the free Android app for Lotus Custom searches has been great. He’s posted some statistics and a link to download the app.

Keith Brooks had a user with a problem. Notes Preview wasn’t working. Everything was just blank, but only on one laptop. It took Keith a whole day to track down the problem.

Bastian Wieczorek says Extracomm has released a free application that lets you set Out of Office from your phone. He’s provided some details and a link for more information.

David Hablewitz wants you to know about IdeaJam. This is the place where you – users, developers, admins – can post your ideas on improving Notes and Domino. You can also vote on ideas submitted by others.

It appears there is a problem in the Notes 8.5.2 Standard client where all the buttons for sending or saving mail vanish. This Technote offers some workarounds while IBM looks for more information.

The latest version of the plugins for Notes have been posted on Greenhouse. New in this release is support for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.

The latest episode of Taking Notes features IBM’s Jim Quill and Phil Riand talking about the forthcoming Relational Database support in XPages. The podcast runs about 30 minutes.

This podcast from the XCast team covers using themes in XPages. Tim Tripcony, XMage at GBS, is the guest speaker for this 45 minute presentation.

Episode 136 of the Taking Notes podcast was a discussion of the upcoming REST API’s for Domino and XPages. The podcast is now available on OpenNTF.

Paul Mooney found a new feature in Notes 8.5.3 for Mac. Or is that a new feature in OS X Lion? It’s a tad annoying, or funny, depending.