View your Lotusphere Schedule on your Apple iPhone and iPod touch
by Volker Weber
Yes, it is true. Lotus iNotes now supports the iPhone and the iPod touch (using WiFi). Since WiFi hotspots will be available throughout the hotels at Lotusphere, you can stay updated with your iPod touch too! This is the new ultralite feature. All you need to do is point your device to the following URL while you're attending Lotusphere (please replace 'XXXXXX.nsf' with your mail file number):
www.ls09.info/mail/XXXXXX.nsf/iNotes/Mail/?OpenDocument&Form=m_HomeView
Just login and navigate to the first date of Lotusphere: January 18, 2009. Then just bookmark that on your device for easy viewing later.
Hmmh. What if I could just download the schedule as an iCal file? I would not need to login every time I want to look at my schedule.
One of the enhancements we have made to the Lotusphere Agenda Session Scheduler application this year is the ability to add your Lotusphere Schedule to your own default calendar so you can synchronize it with your smartphone and carry it with you while you are attending Lotusphere. We do this by giving you the ability to create an iCalendar file that can be imported into your own iCalendar compliant calendar application.
See, you only have to ask. :-) There is a small problem however. I won't be able to see the general events. Lotusphere has them, and you can view them online:
Check out your Lotusphere Mail iNotes calendar in Full mode. On the bottom left under My Calendars you will see that we have added a Google public calendar overlay. This calendar is a list of Lotusphere general events that are pulled from our Google pubic calendar. These include most of the events that are happening around the sessions you will be attending. This way you can easily check out when the Jamfest is, for example, or what time lunch is.
Does anybody know the Google Calendar URL for this file? I would love to just put this into my real calendar and not the one on Lotusphere Online that I won't check anyway.
You can also add your own Google calendars to your iNotes calendar by simply clicking Add next to My Calendars so you can add your own private appointments to your calendar to make the calendar more useful.
This is completely backwards. I don't want to make the iNotes calendar more useful. I want to make my calendar more useful. I know this is hard to do from an "enterprise view" where the iNotes calendar is the center of the universe. Lotusphere attendants don't work for Lotusphere. They work for thousands of other companies. We don't need to subscribe our calendars into the Lotusphere Online system but we need to be able to subscribe the Lotusphere Online calendards into ours.
Travelling vowe
by Volker Weber
Back after a week on the road. We had a wonderful time in Berlin. Now we are happy to be back at home. I think there will be a lot of postings over the next few days.
There is more travel ahead: Lotusphere, edcom Nachlese and finally GSMA Mobile World Congress.
No surprises at the PhilNote
by Volker Weber
No wonder that Steve passed the buck to Phil.
- New 17" MacBook was overdue. Surprise: you can buy non-glare screen.
- iWork 09. Check. I want it.
- iLife 09. Check. I want it.
- DRM-free iTunes store. Overdue as well. Hello Amazon. And the majors finally get their price differentiation. "Nice price". Yawn.
Notes and Domino 8.5 available
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IBM closes second half of 2008. Notes & Domino 8.5 are now available from Partnerworld.
Winter in Potsdam
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Ute and Sabine, Photo Alex
Peter O'Kelly: I am now a Microsoft employee
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I’m psyched to announce that I have joined a new Microsoft team focused on enterprise collaboration optimization (i.e., communication, collaboration, and information architecture, for large organizations).
Ente Chop Sui
by Volker Weber
[Thanks, Hanno]
Zu verkaufen
by Volker Weber
Smart Passion, 40 kW/55 PS, bay gray met., Tridion silber, Glasdach, Klima, Softtouch (Schaltautomatik), Radio, CD-Wechsler, Soundpaket, Sitzheizung, Winter- und Sommerräder, EZ 8/2002, rund 65 tkm, Standort Darmstadt
Erstbesitz, Nichtraucher, unfallfrei, keine bekannten Mängel. Verbrauch 5,5 l/100 km (Ute) oder 6,0 l/100km (vowe). Interesse? So ein Smart ist größer als man denkt . :-)
Events of the last few days
by Volker Weber
A couple of things happened, that were not important enough to get me to post here. Too lazy. :-)
- On December, 31 all Zune 30 around the world froze. All five of them. Turns out it is a calendar bug. Leapyear, hint hint. Can you spot the error in the code?
- I got a Sanctuary for Xmas. Ute may use it as well. :-)
- Saw a great movie on Youtube with a cat and dog. Can't find it anymore ...
- Watched George Carlin again. Soft language indeed.
- Updated the firmware on five BlackBerrys yesterday: 8100, 8120, 8820 (all .124), 9000 (.217), 9500 (.85). Nothing else shows the speed difference between 8xxx and 9xxx as well as the update process.
- The Apple TV served us well over the holidays. Ever since I downgraded to 2.1 and installed Sapphire, it slowly grew on us. Also tried Boxee yesterday once again, but remain unconvinced. Big benefit of the Apple TV over the EVA: slideshows with "Ken Burns Effect".
- Windows on the Samsung NC10 went kaputt. Would no longer recognize the WiFi card. I was eventually able to repair it. Troubling.
- You really should not yell at your hard disk.
- Genii follows Notebook.de as this month's sponsor. Thank you!
Happy New Year everybody. Don't forget to change your copyright notice.
Lotusphere Online and Offline
by Volker Weber
January, start of the Lotus season. If you are attending Lotusphere, you should have received an email inviting you to https://www.ls09.info.
Your User Name is the email address you provided when you registered for the conference. The password is your Lotusphere confirmation number, which can be found in the upper left hand corner of your confirmation letter.
If you have some patience, you can fill out your profile on Lotusphere Online. I guess there are a lot of people doing just that right now, bogging down the system. :-)
A better way to access session information is, same procedure as every year, Genii Software's session database for Lotus Notes:
Back by popular demand, we have built a Journal database containing all the sessions listed on the official Lotusphere site. This database is based on the personal ND6 Journal with a few added views, so it should synch with the Palm Pilot and other smart phones, but it also contains a wealth of useful information for planning out your schedule.
As in previous years, the Turtle Partnership is providing a BlackBerry version of that same database:
To download simply browse on your BlackBerry to http://lotusphere.turtleweb.com/bb
For those who just want to get a brief look at Lotusphere Online, here is a three minutes video:
I love to compare load times of URLs containing "nsf" (Domino) to those with "do" (Connections). Too hard to see in this highly compressed video. I am putting the source on me.com.
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