Review of 2010
We got a dog in January, didn’t go on holiday during the Summer, and then the weather was rotten which made the fact that we didn’t go on holiday just that bit more depressing. I changed jobs in April and …
Year: 2010
Quickr or Connections?
Something we’re often asked… when would you use [IBM Lotus] Quickr and when would you use Connections? My frolleague Louis Richardson, who just so happens to be our Worldwide Sales Executive for Social Software, has provided some thoughts on this …
Lotus Notes Traveler meets Android
Slightly old news as Ed Brill has already blogged it, and Traveler Product Manager Jan Kenney has also provided a detailed write-up. So what more value can I add?
Late this morning a member of the IBM UK …
Weather report in your calendar
Lotus Notes 8.5 introduced the ability to overlay other calendars onto your own. The ‘other calendars’ can come from a variety of sources:
- Other users’ Notes calendars
- Notes TeamRoom calendars
- Notes application calendars (e.g. an application for managing events or
Sametime and Plantronics integration
A couple of months ago I blogged about Plantronics’ headsets, and it’s no secret that we have a very good relationship with this supplier of extremely high-quality audio equipment. Yes, Plantronics do work with other vendors of Unified Communications …
Tablet dilemma and other Gadgets
I was going to name this post “keep taking the tablets” or something witty like that, but then I realised it would be an extraordinarily bad pun and not very funny.
Anyway, here’s the problem… I’m a contented soul who …
IBM Lotus Connections 3 is available
A couple of weeks ago we announced Lotus Connections 3, and today it became generally available. This is a substantial update with many improvements and some major new capabilities – so, it’s a good time to provide a quick overview …
IBM LotusLive iNotes wins a CRN 2010 Tech Innovator award
The title says it all – LotusLive iNotes has won an honour in this year’s Everything Channel’s CRN Tech Innovator awards. iNotes won the award for the best small / medium business software productivity solution. According to the press release:…
Greetings from Aberdeen
It’s 19:45, and I’m in the Aberdeen-based Business Class lounge of a certain airline. I shall refer to them as ‘the airline’, which is a much politer term than they deserve. The story goes something like this…
14:16 – I’m …
Lotus Notes is cool
I’m not deleting this and I’m keeping it for posterity, but notesiscool.com has now been decommissioned. However notesiscool.net rose from the ashes, and actually looks a bit like my original.
By now I’m one of the last people to blog …
Cool Notes icons
Previously, in an update on Notes 8.5.2, I mentioned that a Notes application can now boast a full colour icon (i.e. not restricted to sixteen colours). While this does nothing for your productivity, it is an important addition to …
The joys of self-checkout
Nothing annoys me more than waiting in a queue for the checkout in a supermarket. Actually, that’s not true, loads of things annoy me more than that… for example, Eamonn Holmes, and the fact that orange juice is always served …