A guided tour onboard Östanå I

Yesterday I was on a guided tour in the swedish archipelago outside Stockholm on the boat Östanå I from Strömma kanalbolaget. It was a 2,5 h trip and the weather was sunny and warm.

It is only a few minutes by boat from the central of Stockholm to reach these beautiful areas.



To the left I caught some sunrain with the camera.







To the right a big ferry that goes to and from Sweden and Finland. Those ferries are a great party place for one or two nights.


Islets and rocks. We are in the inner Stockholm archipelago and don't get very far on a little more than an hours boatride out. When you get to the outer areas the environment of the archipelago looks quite different.

In Sweden we have something called "Allemansrätten", which means that everybody have the right to and access to walk on all land or
islands even if it's private. You must not however destroy and missuse anything. As long as people don't missuse this it is a great thing we have. I can whenever I want to go or sail anywhere I want to and sit down and eat a meal or watch some birds or whatever.

The inner of Stockholm is also beautiful itself with a lot of water and trees.

To the right is a photo of a part of Stockholm harbour. The land in the back is Djurgården where an amusement park called Gröna lund is located and Skansen which is a miniature of sweden.

For more photos from this occasion visit http://flickr.com/photos/waller



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Lotusphere 2007 getting closer

In January 21-25, 2007 it is once again time for Lotusphere. I was there last year and had a really good time. It was my first time as well but from what I've read it was the best lotusphere so far and I understand that because it was a great arrangement with a lot of exciting news both on the notes/domino side but also for websphere and workplace and for me it was the start to get to know web 2.0. I wish I could go again this year, but that's not possible. Maybe 2008, we'll see.

Anyway, take a look at the registration page if you have got a chance to go. Also take a look at my lotusphere photos from lotusphere 2006.

I was google earthing a bit a and zoomed in on the swan and dolphin building. It looks familiar but different.



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Blogging with Flicker from my cell phone

Blogging with Flicker from my cell phone
Originally uploaded by Niklas Waller.

It's so easy and funny. Not any breaking news but still...

My laptop and a coffe on the balcony a sunny morning at home with my kids. Ah, that's life!

The web of tomorrow: summary

I have been at the conference "the web of tomorrow" or "Morgondagens webbplatser" as it is called in swedish. It was held on the 5-6 september in Stockholm, Sweden. The person that was leading the conference and presenting all the speakers is Fredrik Wackå, web advisor on his company W PR & Information. He is also running a successful blog in sweden in where he among many other things lists company- and co-worker blogs in Sweden. I would like to call it the accurate list of serious company blogs in Sweden.



The first day began with a lecture by Fredrik about the social web. A brief introduction to rss, blogs, wikis, tagging, podcasting, ajax and more which leads to more participation for visitors and customers and less control for the one's providing the services. Fredrik and the rest of the speakers together gave us some great and useful links to sites that each and one is a good example of the social web or web 2.0 in some way or that it provides news about it. I will list some of them in the end of this blogpost.

There were many good speakers but I will only talk about a few of them, some people that presented something extra that made me think.

Neville Hobson from ABC was the keynote speaker. Neville runs his own website www.nevillehobson.com but also a site called 'For Immediate Release' together with Shel Holtz, where they publich podcasts twice a week about public relations and technology. Neville has been working with podcasting for a long time and was presented as one of the world premier authorities when it comes to podcasting and blogging.



Mr Hobson spoke about communication of the future. He showed us some research about companies and blogs. It was interesting to find out that blogging still is such an unknown area. Many companies and people still don't have a clew what it is. Appearantely France are more aware than other european contries about blogs, while in Netherlands and Germany many executives still find blogging a mystery.

Neville also showed us how different languages are divided among the current 53.4 million indexed blogs on Technorati. It was surprising to me to see how large percentage that was written in japanese and chinese. English is most common but if you put together japanese and chinese then that's the largest group. Swedish wasn't even listed.

I asked Neville and Fredrik if they could estimate how many blogs there might be worldwide, but as I suspected it is impossible. We know for sure it is more than 53,4 million. Probably around 200-300 million blogs, also depending on the definition of what a blog is as Fredrik pointed out. Sweden proabably doesn't go above 100.000 if you count them all, but that's my own personal estimate.

Mr Hobson also came to the issue of trust as we tend to do when speaking about blogs. The conclusion was that we trust 'someone like me' and not companies and authorities which one might think.

There were lots of other great things about podcasting etc. that I will not go further into here.

Eva Beckman from Bolagsverket told us a great story of their mission to build a site for a public authority in Sweden, Bolagsverket. They had 3 months to build two sites with 5 resources, two informers and 3 system developers. She learned quite a lot during this journey and told us about it. Great speech!

Pia de Gysser from Agria Djurförsäkring (pet/animal insurance) was speaking about adaption for target groups on the web together with participation on the web and the fact that Agrias web is and in greater scope will be the customers web. It was a fascinating 50 minutes about how Agria relates to and communicates with its customers. Agria is in great deal working with its customers, loyal customers, through a social web. Some services for the customers are the image gallery, the company blogs (Pias and Sofies) and some recently released AJAX-based services for presenting popular names of dogs, cats and horses.



Neville also did a podcast with Pia during the conference and posted it on his blog.

Ralf Larsson from Electrolux told us about E-gate, an amongst employees popular company intranet which they have built and now use worldwide. They work hard on this intranet and among other things are many internal blogs. E-gate was ranked as one of the world's best intranet by Nielsen Norman Group in 2005.

Urban Lindstedt from No Digit Media, was talking about search engine optimization. I've heard him speak earlier and read his blog uppkopplat.se and it is always interesting to hear about SEO and Urban has quite some knowledge on this subject.

The last speaker was Jakob Palme from Stockholm university, professor in computer science. He told us about the project Web4Health, a site which has in three years gone from 0 to 500.000 visitors/month without paying anything for advertising. It is not a well-known site by name, but due to the excellent work that Jakob and his associates has put into this site optimizing it, it ranks very high and gets a lot of visitors. One of many interesting things that
Jakob told us was that 72% of all their visitors come from search engines. It must be a very high number. Urban said earlier that 30-40% is a good number. This site is probably one of the best examples of how to SEO your site. I got lots of ideas from Jakob as well.

So summarized it was a good, interesting and educational conference and I am quite satisfied. I can't say that their were any big news for me other than perhaps a short definition of web 3.0 which shortly were described as the semantic web. I will dive deeper into that later on.

Some useful links provided on the conference:

• Bloglines
• del.icio.us
• Flickr
• Digg
• diggar.se
• bubblare.se
• Wikipedia
• Google maps
• MySpace
• Second Life
• Slashdot
• Backfence.com

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Design change in the mail template for Hannover

Mary Beth Raven says that "Unread messages are now BOLD, not red!" about the mail template in the Hannover client. I find those small changes amusing and I think I will like it better.

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Morgondagens webbplatser

Imorgon tisdag och på onsdag, 5-6 september hålls webbkonferensen Morgondagens webbplatser av IBC Euroforum i Salénhuset i Stockholm.

På konferensen Morgondagens Webbplatser får du lyssna till svensk/internationell expertis och prisbelönade företag och myndigheter. Genom paneldiskussioner och frågestunder är målsättningen att måla en bild av webben 2.0.

Programmet hittar du här.

Ordföranden är Fredrik Wackå. Intressanta talare är bla Neville Hobson från ABC, Pia De Gysser från Agria Djurförsäkring, Urban Lindstedt, journalist och författare och många fler.

Jag går dit med höga förhoppningar om en spännande konferens och hoppas ha något intressant att berätta om efteråt. Det jag är mest nyfiken på är hur mycket nytt det är som jag själv inte sett, tänkt på eller vet om ännu.

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wink - The Social Search Engine

wink is a social search engine powered by the people. It indexes tagged content from Digg, Yahoo MyWeb, Furl, Slashdot and other social bookmarking services and displays them on search result pages.

Create your own account on wink. Search, tag, vote and block as you please.
If you like a page (a search result), then add it to your favourites by clicking on a star. If you don't like it, then block it by clicking in the blocking symbol and you won't see it again.



wink also synchronizes will del.icio.us and it is also possible to edit wiki entries inside wink. An explanation and a reference to wikipedia is presented for the meaning of the search word.


A search plugin for Firefox can be installed.

Next version, wink 2.0, is launched next week.

Read more on Techcrunch for a more detailed description.


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File sharing in Firefox with AllPeers

I read a blogpost on Webbomedia by Per-Åke Olsson about a new firefox extension called AllPeers. It is a cross-over between instant messaging and file sharing. Files are shared by drag-and-drop to your friends and family.

It is using Bit-torrent technique but no uploading is required. The data is being loaded directly from each user's hard drive and there is no size limit. It is only possible however to share and upload with users on your contact list.



Seems like a great and useful application. Haven't been able to use it fully yet though due to few people in my contact list.

Take the tour and learn more.


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ScrapeTorrent

Now, where can I find the latest firefox 2.0 release candidate?
I was thinking about that the other day and don't think it's trivial to find it on the firefox homepage.

There are several options. Search for it on Google or Technorati, read some blogs or post a comment and ask for it. And there's another way, use a torrent site. There's always someone who has already uploaded it.

ScrapeTorrent lets you search 4 different torrent sites and presents the results from each and one of them on the same page with torrent links.



This link searches for everything uploaded about Firefox on:

• TorrentSpy
• IsoHunt
• PirateBay
• MiniNova

You can filter zero seeders which is a great feature.


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The real Firefox

Look at the real firefox I found at AndreaHarner.com.



I wonder if Mozilla knew about this beautiful animal when they created Firefox?

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Google MP3 Player - a new GMail feature

I read the Google Blogoscoped and found a blog post about Google MP3 Player. Appearantely Amit Agarwal on Digital Inspiration has been digging into the GMail code and found a MP3 player. It is actually the Google Video Player that can be used to play any mp3 file even without having to login to GMail.

I have followed Philipp Lenssen's advice and put it into an iframe. This way we get a Google-like interface with a progressbar and sound adjustments.

Below is the latest episode from the Taking Notes Podcast - Taking Notes Episode 28:08.17.06 - Sametime on Linux, DominoWiki, Lotusphere 2007, OpenNTF Update, Online Meeting Tips and News.



Now sit back and enjoy this great podcast for Notesoholics from Nick's corner!

or... try it yourself. This is the secret URL -> http://mail.google.com/mail/html/audio.swf?audioUrl=MP3_URL

Take a look at the source code for info on how to put it into an iframe.

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Each week's most popular online video clips

Lifehacker reports about The WorldTV Internet TV Charts site. It keeps track of the most popular videos from 4 services and updates every Sunday at 7pm:

• Google Video
• YouTube
• Digg
• VideoSift
  

Here's the current number one from Google Video:

Also see popurls tracking the most popular urls from digg.com, del.ici.ous and reddit.com


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Time magazine lists 50 coolest websites

Time magazine has published a list of the 50 coolest websites. It should have been a list of the 500 coolest websites if you ask me. There are so much going on on the Internet right now and we are experiencing an exponential growing of new cool sites and features following the trends of web 2.0.

On time.com we can read the following:

Many of this year's choices are shining examples of Web 2.0: next-generation sites offering dynamic new ways to inform and entertain, sites with cutting-edge tools to create, consume, share or discuss all manners of media, from blog posts to video clips.

Take a look at the full list.

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Plans for 'Locations' in Hannover

Mary Beth Raven, the lead project designer for the Hannover project has in a posting on her blog mentioned the plans for 'Locations'.

The old concept of 'Locations' from Notes will be kept but reduced:

• Office (network) -> Online
• Island (disconnected) -> Offline
• Travel (notes direct dialup) -> Travel (to remove?)
  
• Home (notes direct dialup) -> Home (to remove?)
  
• Home (network dialup) -> remove
  
• Internet -> remove
  

In Hannover it will be possible to see all old locations from Notes 7 and to manage locations. When managing locations and choosing to create a new or to edit an existing one the following dialog box will appear:



Read more on Mary's blog and the comments she has received.


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NeoWORX blog counter

Maybe you have noticed my new counter further down to the right on this blog? I found it on Paul Mooney's site. Go to NeoWORX homepage and you can try three different applications:

• NeoCounter
  
  It shows the number and nationality of online and past visitors.
  Here's a screen shot from this blog:
  
  
• NeoEarth displays your online and past visitors on a choice of 12 zoomable maps in 4 different sizes.
  
  
  
  
• NeoBoard helps you to establish a community feeling by discussing with your visitors online.
  
  

Registration offers a premium version for 14 days and after that it's your choice to choose the premium version or the free version. The free version for NeoCounter offers a basic online display without past visitors information and unable to customize looks. I think I will go with that one though. We'll see after 14 days.

Take a look at NeoWORX for more info about the counter.


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Windows Live Writer

Microsoft has just released Microsoft Live Writer, a tool following the trend of web 2.0 making it easier for us to share information like blogging and photo publishing. It's a beta and some of its features are:

• WYSIWYG Authoring (blog authoring)
• Photo publishing
• Map publishing
• Writer SDK

The .NET framework is required.



In a former blog post I was writing about a new web browser called Flock. Using flock I can publish posts to different blog services and publish fotos to both Flickr and Photo bucket. I am sure Windows Live Writer is a great tool although I haven't tried it yet.

Read more on Lifehacker and on Beta Alfa 2.0 (swedish).

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Web Operating System

So now something called a web OS has come and joined the world of web 2.0.

At Desktoptwo you can register to use an online web based desktop. It is built in Flash and offers a feel of a regular PC desktop with 1GB space for free and applications and features like e-mail, address book, blog publishing, IM client, MP3 player, Program editor, Acrobat reader, Open Office, Browser and more.



I registered but had some connectivity problems so I didn't get a chance to provide a review. Take a look at Go2Web2 for a good review with more screen shots.

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Lotusscript version of the @Middle formula

Here is a lotusscript function for the @Middle formula function.

Function Middle (fullString As String, startString As String, endString As String) As String

Dim startposition As Integer
Dim startlen As Integer
Dim endposition As Integer

startPosition = Instr (fullString, startString)
startLen = Len (startString)

If ((startPosition > 0) And (startString <> "")) Then
endPosition = Instr (Right$ (fullString, Len(fullString) - startPosition), endString)
If (endPosition > 0) Then
Middle = Mid$ (fullString, startPosition + startLen, Instr (startPosition + startLen, fullString, endString) - ( startPosition + startLen ) )
Else
Middle = Mid$ (fullString, Instr (fullString, startString) + Len (startString), Len (fullString))
End If
Else
Middle = ""
End If
End Function

Use:
midStr = Middle("This is a wildcard _ and this is what you get +", "_", "+")
Msgbox thestr

Result:
and this is what you get


*** updated 10 aug ***

or make it easier as Thomas Adrian suggested in a comment:

middle = Evaluate(|@Middle("| + mystring + |";"| + startString + |";"| + endstring + |")|)

Exempel:
Dim middle As Variant
middle = Evaluate(|@Middle("| + mystring + |";"| + startString + |";"| + endstring + |")|)
Print middle(0)

***************

*** updated 14 aug***

Here's another approach by Sean Burgess suggested in a comment and it works fine as well.

Dim tmp As Variant
Dim FullString As String
Dim StartString As String
Dim EndString As String

FullString = "This is a wildcard _ and this is what you get+"
StartString = "_"
EndString = "+"

tmp = Strright(Strleft(FullString, EndString), StartString)
Msgbox tmp

***************

One could say that the script I posted is somewhat unnecessary ;-) when it could be done in these ways. Or... you could call it ambitious. Anyway now I would say we've covered the middle function! But please feel free to post other solutions and I will put them up as updates.

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Chat client for multiple instant messaging services

Do you chat?
Well, I use MSN Messenger for private use and Sametime for work related chat. I also have a Google Talk account but there is not much activity going on there, I guess it's too early.

Anyway, wouldn't it be nice to use only one client for all the instant messaging services you use? Hardly any news that it is possible. I tried to make it work with Trillian a year ago, but it failed for sametime. Now, I have found Kool IM.



It's a web-based client and you need to register on the site to start using it. It's very easy to start using. The following clients are supported:

AIM Google Talk ICQ IRC Inbox Jabber MSN RSS Channel Sametime Stocks channel Yahoo

For those of you who don't know what Sametime is, I can very briefly explain that it is a chat client that connects to a Sametime server or actually it is a Domino server with Sametime functionality add-ons. Sametime can connect to the server via a web browser, a desktop client or through Lotus Notes. It's primarily used for work and not for private matters like MSN.

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Create your own digg feeds!

Have you visited digg.com? If you haven't, take a look at it!! It's a great place to find news in the world and on the Internet. I keep an eye on the Technology topic from time to time.

Now it's possible to create custom digg feeds on DiggFiltr.



I have made a custom digg feed for the Technology topic and put it into blogLines.

Here's the subscription.



and here's how it looks as a feed in bloglines.





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What's new in WebSphere Portal 6 ?

Websphere portal 6 was released on july 26th.

Some of new the features are

• improved user experience
• additional personalization capabilities
• composite application capabilities
• Simplified portlet creation (websphere (bowstreet) portlet factory)
• Multiple LDAP support

Websphere portal 6 comes in three editions; WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Portal enable and WebSphere Portal Extend.

IBM has published an article about it. Read more here.
Also try a demo of it here.

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Change the Windows XP Boot Graphic

I read an old post on gHacks Tech News about how to change the windows XP Boot Graphic. I tried it and it's pretty cool so I have to write about it for those of you who haven't seen it before. Follow the intructions by downloading bootskin and get more skins at winCustomize. It's freeware and it makes only temporary changes. According to gHacks the default settings are back when uninstalling bootskin.

I downloaded and tried one with a Superman Returns theme. Take a look at it here:



Unfortunately I couldn't find a lotus related bootskin, other than the car ;-)

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Install your Lotus Notes client on a USB key

Declan Lynch reports on his blog that in IBM Lotus Notes Domino 7.0.2 Beta the feature Nomad is available. This means that the entire Lotus Notes client can be installed onto a USB key and startup will all your settings on any windows machine. It will take up approximately 340 MB.

Declan writes...
I could quit notes and move the USB key to another machine and everything worked as if it was installed locally. I also had the full notes client installed on one of the machine I put the USB key into and the Lotus Nomad install did not interfere with the installed client in any way. It was also nice to see that nomad worked perfectly when I plugged the USB key into a Windows Vista beta machine.

It will only work for the Lotus Notes client though. Here's how to make it work for admin and designer clients. He continues...
To turn your recently installed Lotus Nomad client into a Lotus Admin Designer Nomad client you just need to copy over 4 files to the USB Key :

admin.exe
designer.exe
events4.ntf
domadmin.ntf

This can be done by any user since Nomad requires only standard privileges. It only writes to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key.

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Google's list of domain names

Neil Patel on Pronet Advertising has by searching the web and using a domain lookup tool gathered a list of Google's domain names, currently 520 of them and increasing with the incoming comments on his post.

The most amazing and unexpected one's (if this is true) must be googlemotherfucker.com and googleporn.com but I guess (hope) that's because no one else should get that domain name and associate with Google.

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Flock

Have you seen the new web browser Flock?
It has similar features as Firefox with downloadable themes and extensions. It's currently a beta and you can either take the tour or download it.



The different features that are most obvious is the integration with Flickr or Photobucket and blog services like blogger.com. It's possible to write blogposts from the browser.

Look at the integration with Flickr in the browser window. It also has drag-and-drop features.





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Custom Google / Custom Yahoo

Change the Google logotype when using Googles search engine, like this:



or Yahoo's:



The logo does not follow the search results to the next page though.

A funny little feature. Try it yourself here!

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Google Suggest

Hardly any breaking news, but for anyone who haven't seent it yet.

Google Suggest gives suggestions to search words along with the hit results as you type them into the search field. This is done with AJAX. Take a look at these screenshots:





Try it yourself at Google Suggest!

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Trace server

Maybe some Notes users or IT-support personal come across this blog. Here's a tip for you.

In some organizations their are sometimes problems to connect to domino servers for a whole lot of reasons. One thing you can try is to trace the server.
If the client has lost its route to the server the trace makes the client "find" the server again.

Here's how to do it:

• Chose File -> Preferences -> User Preferences in the Notes client and select 'Ports' in the box that opens up
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Press the trace button to the right and the following box opens up
  
  
  
  You can type in the server's name in the destination field. Either you just use the common name that is 'Server1' or the full hierarchical name. Press 'Trace' and a trace is made. If everything is going well it should look something like this when searching for the common name:
  
  Determining path to server Server1
  Available Ports: TCPIP
  Checking normal priority connection documents only...
  Allowing wild card connection documents...
  Checking for Server1/OU/O at last known address 'Server1' on TCPIP...
  Connected to server Server1/OU/O
  
  If this doesn't work try tracing using the domino servers IP address. When doing so:
  
  1. You're not dependent of the DNS to work
  2. A connection document is created in your personal addressbook

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Compare two databases to check for differences

I am using a tool called Teamstudio Delta when I need to compare two different databases by design or by data. I use it either to compare two replicas or to compare a database with its template.




Choose server and database and then the option on whether to compare design or data.



Using the smart filter I can look at the differences between the two databases.

Since it's not freeware it limits the use to the number of licenses you or your company have bought.

-> Read more at Teamstudio

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IBM releases Lotus Notes for Linux!

crn.com says:
"A Notes client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3, will be available on July 24."
"Technically the Linux client is a Version 7 release"
-> Read more

More on edbrill.com

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Firefox 2.0 Beta release

According to Techweb Mozilla will release Firefox 2.0 Beta tuesday july 11. The release candidate (rc1) can be downloaded here today.

Read more at gHacks Tech News

How to tweak Firefox 2.0 Beta 1

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"I have cleaned my mail box - but nothing happens"

This is a sentence that I often hear of among users of Lotus Notes where I work. The users have mail quota restrictions so they have to maintain the mail box and delete e-mails every day. However for most users the quota is never enough and I understand that. I have no restriction myself and that is a well-deserved privilege for a Notes administrator ;-)

So why does it happen and what can we do about it?

First of all, most users don't clean their mail box as good as they claim. The users tend to delete simple e-mails that don't contain any attachments. When they have deleted 20 or so they believe that they have made a great offert and wonder why there is no difference, why nothing happens...

The key to clean your mailbox efficiently is the 'All Documents' view.



Sort the view by size and you'll see all of the e-mails in your mail database, not just the one in your inbox but also sent e-mails and e-mails that you have put in folders.



They are now sorted by size and you can more easily find the large one's that will make a difference in trying to reduce the size of your mail box.

Now either delete the e-mail directly or delete the attachment or save the attachment to disk and then delete it from the e-mail.



Deleting these e-mails will not show any effect for the user. The mail box has to be compacted. The user has the option to do so by pressing the compact button that can be found in the database properties under the information tab. Compacting performed by the user will however only be helpful if the quota hasn't been overridden. If so, white space is created where the e-mails used to be and new e-mails can take their place (or calendar entries etc.). If the quota has been reached and the user has received notifications about that, a compact will not stop the notifications to continue. The reason for this is that no file size reduction takes place when a user performs a compact. But if you maintain a mail box well and delete e-mails every day, space will be available for new e-mails and the mail box does not have to grow at all.



Press the '% used' button (figure above) to see how much space in the mail box that is being used. In this example 92,3% of the mail box is filled with data. In theory 7,7% can be set free when a compact with file size reduction is performed.

Compact with file size reduction never occurs unless an administrator does it or makes it happend. Either you can do it when the problem arises for a user or you can set up a program document that does it on a weekly schedule or so.

1. On the console: load compact mail\xxx.nsf -B (compact xxx.nsf with file size red.)
2. Program document With file size reduction:
   
   
   
   
3. Program document without file size reduction:
   
   
   

A recommendation would be to create a program document that executes a compact -b every night for all users mail files. And once a week a program document that executes compact -B for all users mail files.

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Blog Summer Camp beta 2006

I read on the swedish blog 'Fyra nyanser av brunt' that there is a Blog Summer Camp 2006 going on this year in Germany. It is a test/beta course about what blogging is all about and how to blog held by Oliver Gassner virtually through his blog and a Google group mailinglist.

A good idea! If I only spoke better german...

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Changes in Internet site documents don't work

Changes in Internet site documents, especially Web Site documents don't work. When I have made a change in a web site document like changing the number of default lines per view page, the change doesn't come through, nothing happens, still the same problem. It was very confusing and irritating until I found the problem.

What you do is that you open the server document and look at the Basics tab. Disable the field 'Load Internet configurations from Server\Internet Sites documents'.



All the settings that before could be seen and adjusted in the web site document now can be found under tab 'Internet Protocols -> Domino Web Engine'. You will probably notice that the number of default lines per view page still is the old value and not the one you tried to change it into in the web site document. Change the value here, enable 'Load Internet configurations...' and save the server document and the change finally works and is also visible in the web site document.

I should add that this happens for a Domino 6.5.4 server on iSeries and I can't speak for other environments. Please leave a comment if you have any experiences on this.

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Red box of death

Have you ever heard of the red box of death? You probably have if you have been working with Notes for a while. Here is a bad quality screenshot from a swedish installation where the rbod occurred. This occured when a user was about to read a document in a lotus notes application like many times before. Unexplainable!



Maybe someone can explain why it occurs or what to do when it happens but from my experience the best thing to do is just to ignore what just happend or maybe reboot the client (and perhaps the server).

Take a look at this blog for a funny now and then image of the red-box-of-death. Scroll down to the post 'The New RBOD'. If someone's got anything on this, please leave a comment. It would be interesting to know.

And here is a way to make it appear.

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Kartläggning av bloggsverige

Bloggen Media Culpa genomför sin andra undersökning av svenska bloggare och bloggläsare och behöver deltagare till sin enkät. Svara på enkäten genom att klicka på länken och uppmana gärna fler att delta: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=956142272223

Download Alan's hints and tips favourites

Another point-out is Alan Lepofsky's powerpoint slide of several of the tips he has created for his blog. Get it here!


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Hannover demo

Smokis Notesblog pointed out a demo of Hannover that's pretty good and educational to look at if you haven't seen that much of it before. Take a look here!


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Details on Domino 7.0.2 release

Read Ed Brill's blog. He has summarized a few links on information about the 7.0.2 Notes/Domino release.

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Domino 7.0.2 release details

WebSphere Portal 6 released in Q3 2006

I attended a short presentation about WebSphere Portal 6 the other day. I am actually having a hard time finding good information on the Internet about it.

Did you know that WebSphere Portal 6 includes WebSphere Portlet Factory (former Bowstreet Portlet Factory)? The current release date is the 28th of july.

IBM announces WebSphere Portal Version 6

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Wiring VoIP to your phone jacks

I found an article on how to wiring VoIP to your phone jacks. Don't have a clue if it actually works though.

See http://www.engadget.com

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VoIP, phone jacks

The man behind Lotus Notes advances in Microsoft!

Near the end of 1984, Ray Ozzie founded Iris Associates Inc., under contract and funded by Lotus, to develop the first release of Lotus Notes. The first release of Notes (1.0) shipped in 1989. Read the long story about the history of Notes and Domino.

On March 10, 2005, Microsoft acquired Groove Networks. Groove's founder was Ray Ozzie and he became chief technology officer of Microsoft.

On June 15, 2006, Ozzie assumed the title of Microsoft chief software architect previously held by Chairman Bill Gates, and is working side by side with Gates on all technical architecture and product oversight responsibilities in anticipation of Gates’ departure from a day-to-day role in Microsoft in July 2008.

-> Read more about Ray Ozzie

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What search engine spiders see

A tool on dlperry.com scans a site and shows the results, as well as provide page data such as word density, meta keywords, links, etc. Interesting to look at if you wonder what search engine spiders actually see when they visit a website according to dlperry.com

See more about what web crawlers, web spiders or web robots are and do here.

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Google Browser Sync

"Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions. For more info, please visit our FAQ.

Please note: Google Browser Sync must update your browser settings whenever you start Firefox. This will increase the start-up time of Firefox (the time between clicking on the Firefox icon and loading your start page) – please bear with us as we work to decrease this delay."


A new firefox extension called Google Browser Sync is available for download. Using a google account it is now possible to share browser settings like form data, history, cookies, bookmarks etc. among several different computers.

You have to download the extension on every computer you wish to share the firefox browser settings with. It's a really good idea but everytime firefox is started a synchronization has to be done which takes some time though.




I like the restore feature. When firefox has started you can choose to restore the tabs you had opened when you last used firefox, just like what the Lotus Notes 7 client offers.




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Lotus Notes keyboard shortcuts

There are many nice and usuable shortcuts to use here:

Keyboard shortcuts in Notes 5.x
Keyboard shortcuts in Notes 6.x and Notes 7.x


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Internet traffic decreased due to TPB take down

When the now famous TPB was taken down by the swedish police or whoever was responsible on may 31, it very clearly showed that the Internet traffic to a great deal consists of file sharing. It actually decreased by 20% when TPB was down if I have got the numbers right.

Take a look at this site for aggregated traffic graphs of swedish nodes.

Read more about the TPB-case at Beta Alfa 2.0 (in swedish) which has covered and discussed a lot about it.

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Websites as Graphs

This site makes a graph out of your site.

Take a look at the website graph for http://thinkgreat.blogspot.com

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Notes.ini variables for Domino Web Access

Variables that Affect Domino Web Access:

• Additional Notes.ini Variables for Domino Web Access 6.5x
• Additional Notes.ini Variables beginning in Domino Web Access 6.0.3 and 6.5
• Additional DWA/Sametime Notes.ini Variables beginning DWA 6.5.1
• Additional DWA/Sametime Notes.ini Variables beginning DWA 6.5.2
• Additional Notes.ini Variables beginning in DWA 6.5.4

Read about it here.

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About roaming #4

Notes.ini values that are stored and replicated in the Personal Address Book for a roaming user are listed below. This is true for 6.0.1 and above, including 7.0 and above:

• ENV_DEFAULTBROWSER
• ENV_DISABLECOOKIES
• ENV_DISPLAYWINDOWMENU
• ENV_ENABLEDRAGDROP
• ENV_LOGOFF_TIMER
• ENV_MIME_CONVERT_WARNING
• ENV_SHOWACCELERATORS
• ENV_STICKYCOLUMNSORT
• ENV_STRICTDATETIMEINPUT
• ENV_USE_WEBPALETTE
• INI_STACK_VAR
• "$EnableAlarms"
• "$MIMESaveFormat"
• "DeskIconColors"
• "EmptyTrash"
• "NavWeekStart"
• "ShowMIMEImagesAsAttachments"
• "ViewWeekStart"
• "WeekStart"
• "WinNTContextIconHidden"
• "WinNTIconHidden"
• "WinNTIconHoverHelp"
• "WinNTIconSize"
• "MailSystem"
• ALTEDITORPROGID
• "NewMailInterval"
• ENV_ENABLEJAVA
• ENV_ENABLEJAVASCRIPT
• ENV_ENABLEJAVASCRIPTERRORS
• ENV_ENABLELIVECONNECT
• ENV_ENABLEPLUGINS
• ENV_ENABLEACTIVEX
• UNICODE_DISPLAY_STR
• LAUNCH_NOI_STR
• ENV_SPELL_PREFERENCES
• ENV_USE_TAB_TO_NAV_RO_DOC
• ENV_USE_ACCESSIBLE_NAVIGATION
• ENV_ENABLE_THEMES
• ENV_UNTAGGEDTEXT_FOLLOWS_FORM
• ENV_KBD_SETS_LANGUAGE
• ENV_LANGUAGE_SETS_KBD
• ENV_URLBAR_INLINE_AUTOCOMPLETE
• ENV_LOCATION_PROMPT
• ENV_ANTIQUEDIALOGCAPTION
• BCASE_SLIDE_MODE
• PROFILE_WEEKSTART
• PROFILE_VIEW_WEEKSTART
• PROFILE_NAVI_WEEKSTART
• "DatePickerDirection"
• "AltCalendar"
• "ReplDefFullDocs"
• "ReplDefPartDocsLimit"
• "ReplDefPartDocsLimitAmt"
• "ReplDefPartAtchLimit"
• "ReplDefPartAtchLimitAmt"
• "ReplDefFullText"
• "ReplDefEncrypt"
• "ReplDefEncryptType"
• "ReplDefReplImmed"
• "Preferences"
• ALTMAILAPP
• LAST_QUOTA_WARNING_TIME
• "MailFile"
• "MailServer"
• "SkinName"
• "WinNTIconRect"
• MAIL_SOUND_RESOURCE
• MEETING_ALARM_SOUND_RESOURCE
• MAIL_CALENDAR_PROFILE_CURTIMEZONELBL_ITEM
• MAIL_CALENDAR_PROFILE_ALTTIMEZONE_ITEM

The following settings/files do not replicate. This means that this data is not equal on each computer that the users use:

• Signature fles
• IMAP and NNTP proxy databases
• NOTES.INI file (except for User Preferences stored in Personal Address Book)
• Desktop.dsk file
• Cache.ndk file
• Headline.nsf
• Private Views/Folders
• Any other data files or databases that are not replicated to the roaming subdirectory on the server

See this technote for all information regarding this issue.

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Djursökmotor på din egen webbsida!

Agria Djurförsäkring (www.agria.se) har lagt ut en tjänst där man kan söka efter frågor och svar i deras 'Fråga veterinären' från sin egen webbsida.

Man klistrar in nedanstående kod på sin sajt så kommer följande sökruta upp, sökresultaten öppnas på Agrias webbsida.

<!--- START KODSNUTT AGRIA DJURFÖRSÄKRING --->
<div>
<script src="'http://www.agria.se/agria/samarbet.nsf/agriapartner?
openpage&partner="searchvet'"></script>
</div>
<!--- SLUT --->








Databasen är förstår gjord i Lotus Notes/Domino som ses på filnamnet.
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It's now through Agria Djurförsäkring (www.agria.se) possible to via your own site search for answers and questions on animal vet issues. Of course, it's a Domino database, but the content is swedish only.

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The latest on "Hannover"

Code name "Hannover"
The future of Lotus Notes

Link pasted from Ed Brills site may 22.

Bowstreet Portlet Factory

A short and very brief description of Bowstreet Portlet Factory...

Bowstreet is a company that was acquired by IBM in december 2005. The correct name now is WebSphere Portlet Factory. Here are the release notes.

The tool is used to rapidly creating portlets accessing back-end data like Domino, SAP, Siebel and other enterprise information systems for the WebSphere Portal environment.

There are more than 100 builders included in WebSphere Portlet Factory. A builder is a customizable, reusable component which generates XML, Java and JSP for specific portlet functionality.

A developer can create new portlets by first creating a new model or application container and then add builders to the model. Thus, a model is a sequence of builders. It is possible to create your own builders by writing java classes.

A portlet is a larger catalog structure in the file system which is compressed into a WAR-file and then placed into the WebSphere Portal Server.

A couple of examples of what you can do with WebSphere Portlet Factory is web services portlets, portlets with AJAX-functionality and Domino specific portlets.

WebSphere Portlet Factory can be used integrated with the Eclipse platform or with Rational Application Developer (RAD).

Alternatives to WebSphere Portlet Factory is RAD or Workplace Designer. RAD is much more advanced, it provides more functionality but hence it is probably more difficult to use. Workplace Designer has not got as much functionality as RAD. What you need depends on what you want to do. According to IBM there will probably be a merge of two or more of these tools.

RAD is included with WebSphere Portal Server with 1 license per CPU.


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New features and technology in IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5

Just a link today!

Official Lotus Sametime 7.5

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