Stuart McIntyre answers with a quick "Yes", Quickr 8.2 works with Domino 8.5.1 on AIX, i5/OS, and Windows. He provides a chart listing supported version/platform combinations.

With all the hoopla about Release 8.5.1, sometimes we forget just how far Lotus and Notes has come. In fact, very few people realize that Notes dates all the way back to the PLATO system in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Read this DominoPower article.

IBM created a virtual desktop, with Smart Works as an affordable computing solution in Africa. Jack Dausman says the same Unbuntu-based VDI is now available to everyone else.

Kathy Brown offers some LotusScript to help find in which folder your user hid that pesky message. She also provides links to Bob Balaban’s and Steve McDonagh’s blogs where they use different methods of locating messages.

Marc Champoux found that changing the jvm.properties file could speed up his Notes 8 client. When he upgraded to 8.5.1 he rewrote his code and provides an LSS file so you can make the changes on your client.

nsfRewind, a data backup and restore utility for the IBM Lotus Domino environment, is now ready for IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 in two editions: the free Server Document Edition – limited to server document backups and restores, and the Enterprise Edition – to backup and restore any document in any database.

Keith Strickland’s customer wanted an addition to the iNotes mail template. Keith figured it would be a simple thing, until he started working on it. He’s wondering if there’s someone else out there who’s gotten this sort of thing to work.

Mikkel Heisterberg has released the GOLD version of his documentation on configuring the Eclipse IDE to run the Notes 8.5.1 client for program development. He provides step-by-step instructions.

If you can work in New Zealand, and have Lotus Domino Web based application development experience and certifications, Vaughan Rivett has a couple of job openings.

Ed Brill posted this link to an IBM survey on a virtualized desktop for the Notes client saying it only takes 10-20 minutes. If you’d like to have a say in this, now’s your chance.