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.
According to Mayflower Software‘s Frank Paolino there may be a new email virus emerging just in time for the holiday shopping season.
“We detected over 520,000 new virus variants in a single day! Because we are watching email patterns worldwide, we detect most new viruses outbreaks solely due to their email distribution patterns, and often before they have been given an “official” name.”
Some of you have heard about XPages, but then again, some of you have not. But for those who have never heard of an XPage, Intranet Journal recently described its benefits and advantages when you’re writing an application.
XPages are a new design element within Domino Designer on Eclipse 8.5. This design element is a new way to display data in a Domino web app, and it separates the design of the page from the data within your app. Thus, you can bind various data sources to your XPage. Multiple existing forms and views can be bound to the page, and you can then use that data on the page in question.
Plus, surfacing a view through an XPage allows you to make it look a lot more modern. The difference between XPages and the traditional default view can be seen when you look at tabbed tables, as it allows you to see contents of each tab without the reload of a page. This can make your app seem to run a lot better to end-users.
For those of you that are avid readers of LotusNotesDomino.com, then you may remember as we reported last month about the development of a Lotus Notes widget for LinkedIn. But, according to Super Blog, this widget is now available.
It appears as if this plug-in will dynamically display LinkedIn profiles, status, and other information in the Notes 8 sidebar. This plug-in will also be a great example of what Ed Brill, the Director of Product Management for Lotus Notes at IBM, calls “contextual collaboration.” Users will be able to access relevant information without having to leave what they are already working on.
With the ease of recalling email addresses in LinkedIn, this plug-in seems to be a great idea for those that use Notes. The reviews have only been positive and for more information, visit http://www.linkedin.com/lotus.
Yesterday morning, Dexmar Ltd announced the release of a collaborative email archiving solution for Lotus Notes and Domino. Named Dexmar E2M, the system enables organizations to manage emails using defined business processes. This process is quite extensive as it not only determines what is archived and how it is indexed, it also considers how long the mail is retained based on its value to the business.
Dexmar also claims that once organizations have implemented their system, they will store less email data and retain it for a shorter period of time. This will reduce the cost of managing email data, and by ensuring these companies only store necessary business information, legal and compliance risk can also be reduced.
So far, Dexmar E2M has already been approved by the UK National Archives, which can provide some reassurance that this system uses good practices for records management.
In a press release, SWING Software has announced the release of SWING PDF Converter for Lotus Notes. This converter will enable Notes users and developers to export documents and emails into standard PDF format. By converting Lotus Notes documents to PDF, individuals will be able to share, archive, or print their documents via the web.
This new software doesn’t require client side installation of a printer driver or DLL files. In fact, the converter is very easy to use for end-users, as a PDF icon is added to the Lotus Notes toolbar. This allows users to covert one or more Notes documents or emails, and the user experience is fully customizable.
Additionally, LotusScript API is provided so that developers can create server-based agents which can produce PDF files unattended. Developers can also enhance the out-of-the-box toolbar functionality, or grab the PDF converter libraries and insert them into any Notes or Domino application.
Lastly, SWING PDF Converter greatly simplifies email archiving capabilities, by producing PDF packages from any email or document collection. For more info, visit http://www.swingsoftware.com/pdf-converter/overview
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.
One innovative way to tell when critical agents terminate abruptly is by utilizing text messages on cell phones. According to Doug Burns, you can enter your cell phone number as an email address, which will allow you to receive a text message on your phone when an agent terminates. Conversely, you can correct terminating agents by setting up a mail-in database to receive a text message and trigger the agent.
But, in order to use text messages this way you need to create a mail file that is associated with a mail-in database. Also, you need to create an agent that runs when new mail arrives. Then send a text message to the address of the mail-in database and give it a code or one-word name in the body. The agent receives this text and then uses it to restart or run the agent.
For more information, visit here.