Lotus Domino 8

I just attended the Lotus Collaboration Summit for the launching of Lotus Domino 8 yesterday.

It is very great that IBM has now come out such a cool & new user interface.

There are 2 features which I would like to highlight here.

First, the “Mail recall”, it allows the retrieval of messages sent in error or to the wrong person.

Next, with the “Conversation mode”, it can gather and review e-mail threads easily—it is a very good feature especially for those users who receive a lot of mails.

To what I know, there are a lot of positive responses for this version 8.

For example, Infoworld reported that “Notes 8 has a clean new look, logical menus, and customizable layouts; for me, this design makes the client easier to use compared to Microsoft Outlook. Still, current Notes users should feel comfortable with the mail client, since it works much as before”.

Lotus Domino 8, well done!

Viewing Blackberry’s attachment

Recently, I happen to find a software called BeamView which can be used by blackberry device to view attachment very nicely… and it is still free of charge.

It is a product developed by Beamberry Solutions.

How Beamberry works? When you open an email document attachment via BeamView on your BlackBerry a request is sent to the BlackBerry server to forward the corresponding e-mail with an attachment to their BeamBerry server. After receiving the e-mail with the requested attachment it is processed in a fashion that depends on the document format, converted to a series of images, compressed and streamed to the BlackBerry device for viewing. The whole process takes mere seconds.

The formats which are supported by BeamView are PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, RTF & ZIP archive.

It can be downloaded from http://beamberry.com/download.

See also my article-- RepliGo - Viewing Blackberry’s attachment:-
http://sc-network.blogspot.com/2008/05/repligo-viewing-blackberrys-attachment.html

Domino Web Access (DWA) performance tip

1. There is a way to speed up the DWA performance by turning the "Reuse child windows". To do it, just go to the Preferences -> Other after logging into DWA.

With this setting turned on, the DWA caches and reuses parts of mail and calendar forms that don't change. The performance time can then be improved for the most frequently used actions.

2. If you are running R6.x Domino server to host DWA, there is a global setting can be added to the server's Notes.ini (as below). In other words, you don't need to set individually for users.

inotes_WA_ReuseChildWindows=1

Shares Trading

Just get to know that there is a popular blog on shares trading for Singapore Stock Market:-

http://www.growmoney.blogspot.com/

Maybe can learn something from there.