Vaughan Rivett offers a 5-minute tutorial on how to secure a lost or stolen phone running Traveler. Since such a phone has contacts and e-mail it’s nice to know there’s a "single button" off switch available.

Chris Toohey says there is a Remote Redbook Residency slot available. You don’t travel, you tele-commute to help write a Redbook on Best Practices for Building Web Applications for Domino. He has more information.

Eric Mack was impressed. It took only 10 minutes to upgrade his Domino server from 7.0.4 to 8.5.1. But he needed to reboot the Windows server, which was waiting to complete applying some patches on the operating system. Many hours later….

Markus Seitz has been working with textured workspaces, including skins, in the Notes client. He’s finally figured out the "problems" with the 8.5.1 client and provides screen shots to explain it all.

Andy Donaldson has written up instructions on using InstallShield Tuner for Lotus Notes with Notes 8.5.1. He’s providing it as a downloadable PDF.

Keith Brooks has provided a 3.5-minute video on upgrading a Domino Server. The actual process takes a little under 3-minutes. Honest. He promises.

Technote 1406281, just published, relates to performance issues, not hangs, in Domino 8.5.x. There is a hotfix, if you need it. Otherwise, the fix should be included in Domino 8.5.2.

Vince Schuurman’s customer had a question on the size of a particular database. It only had a few documents but was over 250MB. The answer is certainly interesting.

DLI.tools has released version 2.6 of Docova Document Manager. The new version has a number of enhancements including improved performance and compliance with Notes 8.5

This developerWorks article introduces LotusLive, defining the basic service and providing descriptions of the various offerings like LotusLive Events and LotusLive Notes.