mNotes, from CommonTime, is now available for Symbian PDA’s and Smartphones takingLotus Notes functionality for mobile email and PIM to another level. CommonTime is offering a free 30 day evaluation of this new product.

This article on DeveloperWorks explores the effect large databases have on IBM Lotus Domino performance. As some admins have found, large databases can degrade performance.

David N Schaffer has a Notes 4 server running. It’s been running for years and is even in its own Domino domain. Until he upgraded the rest of his installation to ND8 it held some replicas of databases. That’s when he found out how old R4 really is.

Dmytro Pastovenskyi got this interesting error message when trying to execute NotesDatabase.FTSearch(query, 0). While Dmytro found an answer to the problem on an IBM forum, I’d like to know what flew over his work area.

Anthony Holmes has run into a variety of things that can slow down Notes/Domino. On his blog he discusses a number of issues that can cause slowness and tells you what you might want to look for to fix it.

Corey Davis of Conxsys has announced the results of his "Help Name Our New Application" contest. The new name is nsfRewind. What does it do? It sits on your server and monitor’s Server Documents for changes. If a change occurs nsfRewind logs it. Then, if a Server Document field is modified, intentionally or otherwise, the field can reverted to the original value without massive hair-pulling. Corey will be looking for Beta testers in the next couple of weeks, he promises.

Adam Gartenberg announces the birth of a new Informix community site from his blog. The new blog aggregation site, PlanetIDS.com, will include links to videos, books, Redbooks, documentation, and forums.

Niklas Heidloff is working on ideas to help the Notes/Domino development community and would like your input. One of his ideas is to create open and public catalogs of applications. He lists both suggestions for future catalogs and a list of current catalogs on his blog.

Winning a Lotus award is a big thing. It could be just the boost your business is looking for, and it’s a point of pride for those companies that win. If you’ve been thinking about submitting your solution for the 2009 Lotus Awards, you’re in luck. The deadline for the awards has been extended by one week.

Read this DominoPower article.

Ray Bilyk offers a ‘Show-n-Tell’ on keeping your BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) from accessing your Domino Servers. Major electrical work meant the Domino Server at one site would be down. But that meant the BES wouldn’t be able to access the data for users on that server. RIM Support helped find a simple solution to the problem.