Stephan H Wissel offers some tips on upgrading your Domino Domain to 8.5x and the new Domino web2.0 application xPages. Luckily you don’t need to wait for a wholesale upgrade of the entire Domino infrastructure. You just need to add one R8.5 server.

Warren Elsmore will be presenting a webcast on Upgrading to Lotus Quickr 8. You need to pre-register if you are interested in attending.

UPGRADING TO LOTUS QUICKR 8

Hosted by THE VIEW, sponsored by Ephox

Online presentation: November 11, 2008 12:00 pm Eastern.

Jack Dausman explains a recent issue – iNotes accounts were broken, with users unable to access their archive files on the archive servers. The solution turned out to be trickier than expected. There is a Technote (1176835) which describes the symptoms, but not how to fix it. If you use iNotes and server-side archiving, then read on.

Representatives from each brand (Lotus, Websphere, Rational, Tivoli, and Information Management); have compiled the most sought after Brand-specific pages to create the toolbar. There are common links between these buttons as well as custom entries from each Brand.

On his blog, Tony Palmer offers a 60-second movie on how to move information from a Notes view to a PDF. He includes the code, instructions, and links a jar file and a Java agent.

The robot research laboratory at Chonnam National University has developed a robotic plant that has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions.

Since I’ve killed a number of hapless houseplants, I wonder how long it would survive in my house.

The Badkey Corner Team offers help in re-setting the color properties in Lotus Notes 8. The Notes 8 mail template displays unread documents in black, instead of red, thereby eliminating those confusing calls about "red unread messages".

If you want to change the color of read and unread documents in your mail file design they explain how this can be done.

On his blog, Vlad Tatarincevs offers some tips and tricks for using SmartUpgrade. And if things go bump-in-the-night he even include a link to the Lotus Technote to help you trouble-shoot the problems.

Andrea Waugh-Metzger, on the Domino Blog, is looking for your input on Notes/Domino Policies. Do you use them? How do you use them? What kind of policies are you using? She’s also offering to answer questions you might have on policies.

Twitter is getting more popular even reaching into the enterprise. IBM has an internal system called BlueTwit and Oracle has been working on a system called OraTweet. Then there are other hosted systems available like Yammer and now DomCastr, a Lotus Domino based twitter-like server.

Try it out for yourself….

http://www.domcastr.com

Username : Demo

Account Password : demodemo