RepliGo - Viewing Blackberry’s attachment

In my previous post in last year September, I highlighted about the BeamView software (by Beamberry company) where it can use for attachment viewing on blackberry device... in a way that the document on the blackberry can be displayed in their original form as they would look on the computer.

In actual fact, there is another more established software called RepliGo (by Cerience Corporation) that can do the same task. I didn’t mention it because BeamView still offers for free during that time.

With RepliGo, users also have the ability to send original documents as attachments in an email, print to HP Bluetooth printers (beautiful, right?), store documents locally and on the server, and even fax original documents right from the BlackBerry.

For organizations having BlackBerry Enterprise Server, I would think that deploying RepliGo is the only best choice for attachment viewing (compare with Beamview) if they are concerned about security (without compromising content).

This is because Cerience has a cooperate solution called “RepliGo Server” where it can be installed on your own Windows server in your premise (either a separate Windows machine or directly onto the BlackBerry Enterprise Server machine). To understand how the communication flows between the server and device, you may refer to the diagram above.

As for Beamview solution, they don’t have a cooperate edition. All the documents are processed and stored on the provider’s BeamBerry servers.

I also notice that RepliGo is an Alliance member of Blackberry. So, I guess you can have another choice now.

如何开榴莲

朋友送我几只榴莲，很开心，有榴莲吃了，确实也有很久没有买榴莲了。可是当我们看到那几只榴莲时， 有点伤脑筋， 因为老公不会开榴莲，我也不会，这怎么办？ 老公说上网看看。 果然没找两下，就有答案了： 先要找一块没用的毛巾或布（用完了就可以丢）， 然后把榴莲放在一个大砧板上，一只手拿布按住榴莲，另一只手拿刀砍去榴莲的尾端（没有柄的一端），大概2cm左右，这时候就可以看到榴莲的一个切面图，上面有五条线，接着顺着这五条线用刀把榴莲扳开成五瓣，这样就大功告成了！

我们终于吃到了榴莲，又学会了开榴莲，互联网的作用可真不小。现在的科技好厉害，只要一上网， 什么问题都已经不是问题了。

Follow-up Flag

In Lotus Notes, the mails can be marked with a follow-up flag and assigned a date and time to remind you about the message.

The messages marked for follow-up have a flag icon next to it which allows you to sort them, making them easier to find and work with. You can also set up an alarm for a specific date, time as well as having an e-mail notification. Flagging a message also places it in the Follow Up view which show only messages requiring follow-up. To flag a mail, just select the message that you want to follow up and then click "Follow Up" button. And, follow by the "Add or Edit Flag". It is a good feature that helps user to manage mails!

Acrobat Reader -- Read Out Loud feature

I believe that not many people are aware that there is a speech synthesizer existed in Acrobat Reader (version 6 & above), where it can read the PDF file with the sound coming out from the speaker.

Hence, a person with certain cognitive disabilities might benefit from reading and hearing the information.

To enable the Read Out Loud feature, just simply select View > Read Out Loud and then select one of the available options that you want.

It also allows customization where you can change the default Read Out Loud attributes.
To get into the settings, choose Edit > Preferences > Reading from the list of categories on the left side of the window (as shown).

Learning Keyboard Typing

The diagram below gives a glance of which fingers to be used when doing typing.

Proper position:-
- The fingers of your hands must be resting correctly on the home row keys. Your right thumb should be resting lightly on the space bar.
- Keep your elbows close to the body.
- While typing, only one finger should move out of the home row to type a key at any one time.

During practicing, you may find it helpful to quietly say out the name of the key as you strike it.

Practice makes perfect!!

IP camera vs conventional camera

Lately, I have done some read up on comparing the conventional CCTV camera (Analogue CCTV) and the IP CCTV camera (also known as network camera) because I was looking one for the kitchen to monitor the maid.

Finally, I purchased an IP camera (spent $288) as I conclude that this type of camera is much better than the conventional type.

In the internet, there are a lot of info mentioning about the comparison of the 2 types of CCTV cameras. For example... http://www.iviewcameras.co.uk/IP/exploreip/ipadvantagesoveranalogue.htm

Below are just some of the essential points which I had considered for my purchase:-

1. Access
- Remote access to live images and remote administration to IP camera are possible from anywhere using a Web browser.

2. Image Quality
- The picture is digitalized. There is no deterioration over time and cable length is not an issue.

3. Video & audio support
- It can support both video & audio.

Now, with the camera that I installed, I can monitor the live or recorded video anywhere using pc. I can also access the live images using my 3G mobile phone. In addition, it allows me to set up motion detection to trigger automatic recording and E-mail alerts.

No wonder IP cameras are quickly gaining ground over the conventional CCTV camera system!!

For IP camera, you can consider it choosing from Axis, D-Link (recommeded), JVC or Linksys.

Increase font size in Lotus Notes

It is not surprised that Lotus Notes user doesn’t know where to change its font size for viewing because the setting is not done at the GUI interface.

For Lotus Notes 5 (or later, apply up to Lotus Notes 8) client, you can customize the display size of the default fonts by adding the following setting to your NOTES.INI file (inside the Lotus Notes directory):-

Display_font_adjustment=x

Where x is the number of points added to the default size, and is a number between 0 and 25. For example, if you need to increase the font size to 5, you would type:
Display_font_adjustment=5

Alternatively, you can also change the font size of Lotus Notes by changing your display fonts in Windows (Control Panel > Display > “Settings” tab > Advanced button).

However, please note that changing the Windows display fonts will affect all programs on your computer.