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Niklas Heidloff offers some tips on writing custom controls for XPages.

Mary Beth Raven would like to know if any of your general users ever use the "Advanced Search" feature.

Keith Brooks had a problem with BackupExec hanging. It took months to figure out a file was in the wrong place. Keith has posted a link to the Symantec Technote with full explanation.

Andy Pedisich says the latest fix pack is now available from Fix Central. He’s included links for the fix list, download information, and Fix Central.

Mat Newman says the days of plain text messages are past. If you’re still sending in plain text, because you don’t know how to fix it, he offers some instructions on re-setting your preferences.

Avalon Business Systems’ ReduceMail Pro suite includes a "kill-it-dead" feature to completely delete messages from Lotus Notes. The process will delete messages from replica databases.

In this podcast Bruce Elgort and Julian Robichaux talk to IBM’s Dave Delay and Phil Riand about the forthcoming REST APIs for Domino and XPages.

Darren Duke offers a possible workaround to this problem: How to get a street address to show up for a contact while using directory lookups with Traveler.

Niklas Heidloff offers a short list of reasons why you should use XPages, especially for new applications.