Lotus Notes Application developers now have a new marketplace to promote their application: www.notesappstore.com. Frank Paolino launched the service as a volunteer project after a client had trouble finding a partner’s application on IBM’s ever expanding website.

“People just wanted one place to find a Notes application that fit their needs.  We started NotesAppStore.com to provide a simple way to find solutions and their company websites without having to sort through a ton of search results pages.    They also wanted some input from the Notes community whether the application was reliable and customer support readily available so we added user reviews as well.”

Apple launched their app store for the iPhone and developers continue to add thousands of application per day.   With fewer developers for Lotus Notes market, the need for an application marketplace is even greater.

Recently, IBM released Lotus Notes Diagnostic which can be used as an add-on for your IBM Support Assistant workbench.  But, what exactly is Lotus Notes Diagnostic?

According to IBM, Lotus Notes Diagnostic is “an unsupported utility that you can download and use to automatically perform repetitive taks associated with anaylzying files from a Lotus Domino server crash, hang, or performance issues.”

But that’s not all, as Lotus Notes Diagnostic runs on Windows.  Yet, it can analyze Domino server files from any platform.  It should also be noted that Lotus Notes clients version 5 and above are supported.

For the latest version of this tool, click here.

In a recent post, John Boyer explained that if you want to get access to new B2C and G2C market opportunities, Lotus Forms is the way to go.

Boyer started by stating it is possible for Domino to have a broader reach to all web users without a client-side installation.  The interactivity of XForms are combined with the high precision presentation layer of XFDL for the client side experience.  But, the Lotus WebForm Server is used to convert that to HTML and AJAX that is understood by your browser.  The result is the XML data processing and web services from Domino servers are extended out to the webtop.

Yet, if you happen to have the Lotus Notes client platform installed, the Notes replication capabilities can be brought to bear for when a user needs to work offline.  You can also use the Lotus Notes Composite Application Framework to create mashups with Lotus Forms and other application components.  Whether you use the Lotus Forms viewer or Lotus Forms WebForm Server to render a Lotus Form in Notes application component, you need to access a running Lotus Form using an API.  This gives you the ability to push data from other components, and also push changes from the Lotus Form.

Mayflower Software has launched a new free beta application, Password Protector, to make signing on to websites and applications much easier.

Password Protector  is a single notes database (application) that lets you store all of your passwords, encrypted, so no one can see them, even if the database is accessed by others or your machine is stolen. Better than using Notepad for storing passwords. Your Notes ID is the single password that you need to remember. With that, you have access to the entire database.

You can share a password with multiple people, or it can be exclusively yours. You can use one database for company shared information and another for personal information. We replicate them across servers, so if your machine dies, all you need is your Notes ID.

Mayflower is offering Password Protector as a free download here.     Check it out and let us know what you think.