Nathan T Freeman offers a quick tutorial on setting mail filters for Notes, Gmail, Sametime, Skype, and more.

Gabriella Davis wants to ask if you’ve ever noticed the "Open in Designer" option on the right click menu in the Administrator client. Gabriella just noticed it in the 8.5.1 beta and was wondering when it got there.

This is a 38-minute podcast with Rob Novak and Viktor Krantz on the new SNAPPS utilities for Lotus Quickr: PandaBear and Flippr.

Much has been said about XPages – now a full tutorial has been posted on the Designer wiki. There are 26 exercises, each with lots of screen shots, to step you through the different features.

Peter Presnell says he is adding a new GetDocumentByUUID method to the DominoDatabase class for .Domino Framework 1.0.2 to help work with UUIDs. He’s also posted some code for generating a UUID for a document.

In the XPages, All Properties, "Page icon" you can define a favicon for the page. Julian Buss warns against using .PNG icons to open XPage files. For some reason it causes Domino to crash.

Mary Beth Raven says, for those of you who replicate regularly, the terminology will change from "Replication" to "Replication and sync" in Notes 8.5.1. She provides a list of "whys" and "wheres" to help you out.

EclipseSource is now offering support for the Eclipse 3.5 release and training programs for version 3.5 of OSGi Equinox, RCP and RAP are now enrolling students. Validated versions of the Eclipse 3.5 platform can be downloaded from its provisioning system.

Phil Randolph had some documents with a computed "days past due" field. Since that was the only computed field in the documents he went searching for something to re-compute the date every day.

Simplified Technology Solutions (STS) will host an IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 Proof of Technology (PoT) on Tuesday, August 4th and Wednesday, August 5th 2009 in Atlanta, GA. If you’re getting ready to upgrade, this is a 2-day, hands-on technical session.