February 4th, 2008
IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 Beta for the Mac - As Usual, It Works!
Remember when not long ago I created a blog post where I was mentioning that one of the things I was really looking forward to from the IBM Lotusphere 2008 event was getting my hands on the new Lotus Notes 8.5 Beta for the Mac? Well, things have moved on from the time where I was mentioning I was having a couple of issues with it and over the weekend I have just managed to fix them by simply doing a replace of the mail file template with the latest release of the v8 mail file template. And now… it works!!
Actually, it rocks, because, as you would be able to see from the screen shot, I have reached Inbox zero on top of it and it surely looks rather nice being able to play with a very solid release, even though it is still beta, and getting rid of all of the e-mail that may have come over the weekend. Oh, and at the same time check out some of the nifty features that are coming along, like the embedded RSS / Atom feed reader client that, although simplistic, it sees to be the only one keeping up with the heavy update of Web sites like Twitter.
W00t!! Yes, indeed, can you imagine? My mail box running hand in hand next to my Twitter feed? How cool is that? And that is just the beginning, because I am surely going to enjoy this beta release before we move into the next one. First, time now to explore all of the different capabilities, like installing plugins, hacking the Welcome / Home page, etc. etc.
Who said that Mondays couldn’t be fun? Well, mine is so far…
Tags: IBM, Lotus, Lotus Notes, Notes, Notes 8, Notes 8.5, Notes 8.5 Beta, Mac, MacBook Pro, Apple, Notes Client, Productivity Tools, Performance, Eclipse, Lotusphere, Lotusphere2008, Twitter, Syndication, Inbox Zero
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February 12th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
[…] I am sure you would all remember how excited I was about making my full transition from my Windows notebook to my recently acquired MacBook Pro with the installation, and successful setup!, from the IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 Beta client for the Mac. So far things have been running pretty smooth and I can certainly confirm that the user experience is just from another world! It simply works! Well, to add further up into the excitement, here I am putting together this blog post where I am sharing what, to me, was the last collaboration tool I needed to have it in my Mac to completely move away from the Windows environment. And never come back! Yes, I am talking about IBM’s Lotus Sametime 8! […]
February 25th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
[…] However, for this blog post I just wanted to share one more thing towards what I call integration nirvana on the Mac! Yes, that is right, if not long ago I mentioned how I was actually quite happy with having Lotus Notes 8.5 Beta for the Mac up and running and how a few days later I managed to get working as well IBM’s Lotus Sametime 8 standalone on the Mac, here we go with the next achievement in that integration nirvana on the Mac! […]
March 28th, 2008 at 12:03 am
[…] Yes, that is right, IBMers would not need to leave their e-mail inboxes to keep up to date with what’s happening in the Twitterverse and still get a grip of what’s happening in that space. And I can see how you may be wondering … "Hang on for a minute, is Luis going to come back to e-mail again then, since he can now access Twitter from his inbox?" Well, not likely, I am still a big fan of Twhirl (As I mentioned earlier on) and will continue to use it just as heavily as I have been thus far, but it is rather nice to be able to quickly scan through e-mail to see how you are going to divert the public conversations into the social software tools and already get a sense of what is happening in Twitterland. Like you can see on this particular screen shot I took from my Notes 8.5 beta for the Mac: […]