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.

Money Saving

Always pay all credit card balances in full amount every month.

Any outstanding balance on a credit card account will leave you susceptible to a high APR (annual percentage rate).

Get Paid To Read Emails

During a conversation, my lovely niece informed me that there is a EmailCashPro web site pays people to read Email.

Upon checking the info on the web site, now, I have an idea how it works.

Firstly, you need to join EmailCashPro site as a member (free-of-charge) and select the kind of emails you are interested in receiving. From here onwards, you will receive Paid Emails from them that match your profile and interest.

Once you click on the Paid Link and visit the advertiser's website for 30 sec, your account will be credited with 1 point.

So, to earn extra money, this may be a choice for you.

If you are interested, you may use the referral link below to register for the free account. It is to help me to build up my network and it wouldn’t cause you to earn less.

http://www.emailcashpro.com/?r=sclam

Notes: each paid email earns you between 0.5 cents to 1 cent depending on revenue sharing.

Firefox Whips Internet Explorer

During a tea break, a colleague of mine happened to mention that Internet Explorer is much better than the Firefox because of it has less vulnerabilities.

Actually this is NOT true... I corrected him as he didn’t aware of the other’s part of story behind.

The fact is that... in the earlier Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec counted only vendor-confirmed bugs when comparing the two browsers. However, it is not accurate as in open source, more vulnerabilities will be acknowledged because of the transparency in development.

In the newest report, which Symantec issued, they had then split the counts into two categories: vendor-confirmed and a combination of vendor- and non-vendor-confirmed flaws. In term of counting vulnerability, this way should be more appropriate & accurate as it includes those made public but not necessarily confirmed by the vendor.

From the report shown this time, the Firefox is more secure than Internet Explorer.

Reference:- http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181501752&pgno=1&queryText=