CuriousMitch

Tags: quickr

           
Quickr 8.1 comes in 2 flavors Entry which is the Personal File Sharing, and Standard which included both.  You can toggle between install types via a notes.ini setting.  If you install Quickr Entry, your notes.ini will contain "QRD_InstallType=1", and when you hit the home page it will look like this



You can Upgrade to Standard by simply changing the ini parameter from 1 to 2 "QRD_InstallType=2" as documented here in the Quickr InfoCenter, when you hit the home page you will now see this, and have the option to toggle between Places and Files



Now lets say you are implementing Quickr, but are not ready to implement the personal file sharing piece, you can remove the Places and Files links by changing the notes.ini entry to 3  "QRD_InstallType=3" so that you will now see this



When changing "QRD_InstallType=" in the notes.ini a Domino restart is not required, simply restart HTTP and the change takes effect.

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 05 15, 08 @ 12:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Odd News

           
Carl via Jake was wondering about people eating dog food, and for some reason wanted my opinion, well, I don't eat the dog food, and I don't drink the dish soap either, but I found someone who did.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Two women were hospitalized after a New Zealand cafe mistakenly served dishwashing liquid as mulled wine, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

Well apparently the first person drank it by mistake, the second person volunteered

She spat out the liquid when she experienced a burning sensation on her lips and mouth.

Cafe worker Bethany Sim offered to test the drink and suffered a similar reaction.

 

You can read the whole story here Cafe mistakes dishwashing liquid for wine

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 05 13, 08 @ 8:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Windows

           
Recently I had a problem on my laptop where no new USB Drives could be installed, hard drives or USB keys that had been previously been installed connected and worked fine, but a new device would never install successfully.  After searching around a little I found this trick to see "Hidden Devices" in Device manager to be able to clean up the failed installs.  To cleanup failed installs (or see other installed devices that are not present) do the following

1. open an command prompt and type "set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1"
2. from the same command prompt run "start %windir%\system32\devmgmt.msc"

Once device manager opens select View,  Show Hidden Devices



You should then have an "Other Devices" section listed in device manager



Once I cleaned out the Unknown Devices, I was able to attach a new USB Hard drive without any problems.

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 05 13, 08 @ 2:42 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: sametime

           
One of the items on my radar right now is Sametime Advanced, not having the resources to install it right now, I am playing with it at bleedyellow.com.  In order to really use it, I wanted to install the plugins, into my Sametime client integrated in Notes 8.0.1, sounds easy right, point to the update site and the plugins should come down, well not so easy, on the first attempt I got this



After a Brief chat with Chris Miller and Chris Whisonant it was determined that if I simply un-check the features which lacked the correct pre-requisite the plugins would install fine in Notes 8.0.1 as pictured here



Well this worked, but Sametime Advanced automatically attaches itself to the Primary Community in Sametime, and I have yet to find a way to have it use one of the other defined communities, so for now I am back to using Sametime Advanced with Sametime Connect 8.0..

This highlights once again a long running problem in Notes 8, simply that the version of Sametime even though it is 8.0, is not identical to the Sametime 8.0 Connect client, why is that? Shouldn't the same version of Sametime simply run as a plugin with in Lotus Notes.  In order for Sametime to be properly embedded in Notes 8.0 and forward, Sametime needs to be decoupled from Notes, and truly be a plug in so that organizations can run the version of Sametime they have standardized on not what it embedded in the product, and that upgrades can be done to Sametime without a Notes upgrade and vice versa.

If you want the Sametime Advanced Plug-ins for BleedYellow you can find all the details here

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 05 05, 08 @ 8:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: blackberry Connections lotus connections mobile

           
Blackberry released the Lotus Connections Client for Blackberry today, the first version fully supports Profiles and Dogear.   The download is available in two flavors, one for loading via Desktop Manager, and one for Over the air download.  







This is version 1.0, I would expect to see a lot more in future releases which are being worked on now.  I have not played with it much yet, but profiles search is nice, and fully integrated with the Blackberry for phone and e-mail.  

BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections

Thanks GiaLyons and Handly for the heads up via Twitter

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 05 05, 08 @ 8:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)