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Notes Traveler on the iPhone
5At 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.
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).
Lotus Notes 8.5 beta 2
0Today I installed the second beta of Lotus Notes, and installed it on Windows Vista. I kind of like Lotus Notes, but I guess that’s mainly cause we use at it work and that I have never ran Outlook as group calendar. And as mentioned before it works well with my mobile phone, the iPhone.
The download is 506MB big, and when choosing to download the package over http took about two hours. The download speed was stable on as low as 74,5 kbps. Why IBM?
First the critics: Shame on you IBM! Windows has been on the market for long more then a year already, and your Notes dev team has not managed to make an installer that works for Vista users. Double-clicking on the install file or trying to run it as an administrator does not work, when running Vista as normal user. I dare say that IBM have not understood the concepts behind UAC. The installation process for 8.5 beta 1 on the Mac was far simpler. IBM believes that Linux finally is ready for widespread adoption on the enterprise desktop, and prepares to deliver this next version of Lotus Notes enterprise collaboration software and Lotus Symphony office productivity applications for Ubuntu Linux. My question is how is the installation routines? Hopefully it will be made available through Synaptic.
So how did I manage to get it installed? Well, by installing it from the commandline as admin! I only installed the Notes client, and not Symphony and
Once installed by first look the Home window looks very similar to what it looked like in the previous version. But it’s an improved version of the template introduced in the first beta of Lotus Notes 8.0. Finally Lotus Notes looks like an application of today, and not like a blast from the past! It’s great to a modern view on the applications you spend a lot of time in. This cannot be said to often. The template is also very simular to the look of iNotes Ultralite for the iPhone.
I like the sidebar. Sadly we don’t use the Sametime IM solution that comes a long with Lotus Notes at work, so cannot test the client out. But l loved being possible to subscribe to some of the most important RSS feeds that I use at work: Messages from central IT department at the University and latest published Tivoli packages.
I also liked the Day-At-A-Glance.
I wonder why the new template is not included in the basic version of Lotus Notes 8.5?
One popular article
03 years ago
There is no doubt about the iPhone being a popular news item, and I, as many, have lots of hits on articles about this phone. I have over time also had lots of readers of the articles I have about Lotus Notes, and devices that can sync with Notes. In the last couple of days my article Lotus iNotes Ultralite on my iPhone has had 163 hits so far, and yesterday 77 hits.
I find iNotes Ultralite brilliant. It has helped me a lot.
