Mary Beth Raven continues with her posts on new stuff coming in 8.5.1 this time with new features for iNotes users.

In this podcast Chris Miller and Mary Beth Raven discuss the design enhancements in Notes 8.5.1. The podcast runs about 20 minutes.

Pastovenskyi Dmytro is stumped and would like some help. He has an agent in a database to create a document in a mail database. And, while it works, it opens an old-style DOS window he’d like to get rid of.

Patrick Picard was trouble-shooting a problem when he crashed the application server. He found it was easy to replicate the crash, so he’s posted the steps in case you need some excitement.

Jake Howlett provides the code, and some reference links, to help you upload files from Flex to a Domino server. Jake includes a small demo program to show how it works.

Scott Hooks has posted a list of his Top 10 new features for the 8.5.1 client.

Mary Beth Raven’s blog provides screen shots of the new policies, changes to the ID Vault, and more.

Albert Wang and Shilong Zhang have written this wiki article on how to use iWidgets in Domino web applications and XPages. They also introduce the IBM Mashup Center.

IBM has announced Lotus Connections 2.5 will be available starting August 28 . Here Stuart McIntyre lists the requirements for the operating systems of both server and client. He’s also provided a link for more information.

Previously John Mackey had explained using an undocumented currentDocument data source object to pass data. Now he explains passing data from multiple sources.