Few companies run homogeneous systems. Carl Tyler has posted a couple of short videos demoing OCS awareness using an iWidget and provides links to some articles with more information.

Mary Beth Raven has posted the slides from her Show & Tell session on "Extending your reach by extending the sidebar".

If you use Traveler, IBM has released fix packs for versions 8.5.1, 8.5.0, and 8.0.1.

Beta 2 of Symphony 3.0 has been released by IBM. Symphony 3 is based on OpenOffice 3 code and can be downloaded for free.

John Head says he promised to make this database available to you during his Lotusphere sessions. It’s now available for download here.

Darren Duke has posted a 2.5 minute video showing you how to make the Notes calendar compute time zone changes for you.

Keith Strickland has posted Part 2 in his series on using XPages in Notes. He’s posted code and screen shots to make the information clearer.

This article continues our series on Lotusphere 2010. Last week, we discussed overall changes at Lotus and Project Vulcan. This week, we’re looking at mobility and collaboration.

Read this DominoPower article.

The Learning Continuum Company has released a new course, Introduction to Domino Designer 8.5, available for free. This course provides the basics of getting started with Domino Designer 8.5 to develop Notes and Domino applications, including using XPages. This new course is available immediately.

Chris Toohey was asked about improving speed on a Notes Domino application. He provides several suggestions on how to identify the problem and what ind of fixes you can implement.