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Notes Traveler on the iPhone

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2 years ago
by frankps in , ,

At work we have updated our Domino servers to v.8.5.1, and gone is the need for Lotus iNotes Ultralite and Notes Pro for the iPhone. With the new version of Domino, Lotus now supports Microsoft’s ActiveSync. You can now have the same push functionality as with Exchange, and use your native iPhone applications. ActiveSync has become a de facto standard for pushing out information to mobile devices.

Installing Lotus Notes Traveler

I have been writing lots of positive things about Lotus Notes, and I should continue a little bit more. Setting up Lotus Traveler on the iPhone is both elegant and easy,and done in about a minute. But seeing that the data of Lotus Notes desktop client, iNotes and the data on the iPhone not being in sync by default, can’t be said to be anything else then a sad story. I thought this was the whole purpose with Roaming User profiles. But ok, it could be fixed. I only had to go in to the Contacts preferences on the desktop and enable “Syncronize Contacts on the Replicator”. Just that this option didn’t make any sence to me. Syncronize my contacts with a replicator? What replicator? Why treat iNotes and the iPhone (or mobile phones) as something else then the destop client?

After having solved the replication problem, the solution has worked flowlessly. But sadly leaves me with a choice I have to make, Lotus Notes or Google Sync? The iPhone can only have one Exchange account, and I must admit that I liked Google’s Exchange service for Contacts, Calendar and Gmail better. It has to be said that we don’t use Lotus Notes for mail. But since this is a work phone, I guess I should stick with Lotus Notes. Not a bad choice if the amount of meetings increase, and if I was more on the move. But for now, I could have been just as happy with Google’s solution, pushing contacts and calendar entries.

I also found Google Contacts to have an easier accessable user interface, and it handles pictures of your contacts far better then Lotus Notes. I have not found what pixel size Lotus Notes use. So most faces look draged. It’s just a small thing, but it is nice to see when somebody has thought design all the way through their product. Google has!

But if it is Lotus Notes you have decided to use, Paul Mooney has put together a brilliant manual for how to set up the Lotus Notes Travel service on your iPhone / iPod Touch (this is only the client setup).

I simply love it!

3
2 years ago
by frankps in ,

Yepp, you read the heading. I simply love Google’s latest move: The release of a beta version of Google Sync for iPhone, Windows Mobile and Nokia phones on Monday. Yesterday I spent some time cleaning up my addressbook on my Mac, and then synced it up to “the cloud”. That being Gmail.

The new service for iPhone and Windows Mobile devices, lets you to get your Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar events to your phone. Once you set up Sync on your phone (which on the iPhone was done in seconds), contacts and schedule will automatically be synchronized in the background, over-the-air. No more USB-cable and perhaps waiting for the battery to go low, so you can sync and charge at the same time. The connection is always on so you don’t have to manually sync your phone after Sync has been set up. Google, has as IBM, licesensed ActiveSync from Microsoft and their Google Sync uses this push technology.

Since Sync is a two-way service, you can make changes on your phone or in your Google Account. Your calendar and contacts are always up-to-date, no matter where you are or what you’re doing. Also, since your data is automatically backed up to your Google Account, it’s securely stored even if you lose your phone. It has never been easier to run from one meeting to the other!

LDAPeople has once again proved to be a brilliant application for me, adding important contacts from my worker’s LDAP server that seconds laters get synced.

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