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In Lotus Notes 8.0.2, you need to modify the notes.css including in a JAR file for modifying font and color properties of unread/read documents. To update this jar file, you need to follow a special process.

• Stop your Notes Client
• Backup the initial jar file (com.ibm.notes.branding_8.0.2.20080809-0430.jar).
• Extract the notes.css, containing in the “themes” folder.
• Create a folder “themes” with notes.css in the folder “\framework\shared\eclipse\plugins”
• Modify the notes.css : For unread mail in red color, you just need to change the color value as described below:

            mailtable>row>unread {

              color: red;

              font-family: Tahoma, Times, Helvetica;

              …

• Launch the following command :

          jar uf com.ibm.notes.branding_8.0.2.20080809-0430.jar themes\notes.css

• Restart your Notes Client

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When another person has access to your Lotus Notes mail file, they can perform tasks for you, such as reading your mail and responding on your behalf.You decide how much access you want them to have. You allow access to your mail file by setting a Mail preference.

1. Click More
2. Click Preferences
3. Click the Access & Delegation tab
4. In Access to Your Mail & Calendar tab under Access & Delegation click Add,
5. In the new window (Add People/Groups window), click the arrow next to “Just this person or group” to select from a directory
6. Select a person or group from the window opened and then Click Ok,
7. Select the components to which you want to allow access (like Mail, Calender, To Do and Contacts / Calendar, To Do and Contacts / None,
8. Select the arrow in the Access frame to choose how much access you want your delegate to have.
9. Click Ok,
10. Click Ok to save your Access & Delegation preference

After following the above steps, you can successfully give someone else access to your e-mail!

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Here are some highlighted Enterprise Instant Messaging Capabilities of Lotus Sametime:

• Rich text chat, built-in file transfer, business cards, spell check and VoIP are several of Lotus Sametime’s  enterprise instant messaging capabilities.
• Lotus Sametime has built-in VoIP feature which means when the time is right it is possible for you to talk to your colleagues.
• Lotus Sametime is designed to work with a variety of 3rd party applications like the ability to start chats right from Microsoft Outlook Inbox.
• Lotus Sametime software can work with Microsoft Office Smart tags, so that it is possible for you to right-click a person’s name and start a chat immediately.
• The screen grab tool can be used to share (and annotate) parts of the desktop with your chat partner.
• Lotus Sametime provides videos chats for the participants.
• Lotus Sametime supports plugins so that you can extend Lotus Sametime to suit the organization’s needs.

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Lotusphere 2009 will be organized at January 18-22, 2009 at Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando, FL, USA .  Lotusphere 2009 is a good chance to access to the latest information and expertise about Lotus and WebSphere Portal Software.

For registration, click here.

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From the Lotus Notes 8 client, you can access the Activities server from your sidebar where you can quickly and easily create activities to organize and share information without requiring the participation of IT administrators. Having access to Activities in a sidebar helps to focus attention on the tasks that need completing.

You can drag and drop files from your desktop, e-mails from your inbox, save instant
messages, and post Lotus Notes document and database links or URLs into the activity and
instantly make the information available to all members of the activity. You can add additional
members to the activity at a later date and they will immediately see all of the information
within the activity.

If some of the users that you need to include in your activity do not have a Lotus Notes client,
they can use the Web browser interface to Activities, which will allow them to participate.

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The new user interface of Lotus Notes 8 gives you easy access to the capabilities to get work done quickly and with high quality. Lotus Notes 8 helps make it easier to find the information you need to do your job:

· Tutorial page - An initial page presented to the user after the first installation or upgrade to Lotus Notes 8. This page points out the new functional areas in the window: the sidebar, the Open list, and the search center.

· Display menu - New drop-down menu for Lotus Notes mail and calendar view options.

· Thumbnail view - Icon to display open windows as thumbnail graphics.

· Sidebar - Rightmost column of the user interface in which application plug-ins appear.

- Activities

- IBM Lotus Sametime® software

- Contacts

- Day at a glance

- Feeds (RSS reader plug-in)

· Improved printing of tabbed tables - Ability to print tab labels and to print each tab independently.

· Mail recall - Option to retract an e-mail message that you sent to a recipient using a Lotus Domino server.

· Recent collaborations - For names, a new right-click menu option that displays a list of your interactions with the selected person.

· Intelligent type-ahead - The list of names in response to type-ahead addressing is sorted by frequency of use rather than alphabetically.

· IBM productivity tools - Suite of open standards-based office productivity tools for working with word processing documents, presentations and spreadsheets—included at no additional charge.

· Activities - Optional sidebar plug-in based on the activity-centric computing capabilities of IBM Lotus Connections software.

· Enhanced instant messaging integration - Sidebar plug-in based on the Lotus Sametime 7.5 interface. Advanced functionality including rich text, spell check, emoticons, automatic instant message history, and more.

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Open application infrastructure
Using open standards-based Eclipse technology, the Lotus Notes 8 interface is designed to:
• Let you work with diverse people, information, and applications from a single page.
• Help you reduce inbox clutter.
• Enable activity-centric computing, bringing together all related components of work into a common location.
• Provide an open platform for plugging in new capabilities driven by business needs.

Improved mail capabilities
Here are just a few key features and enhancements to mail:
• Ability to recall certain e-mail messages you sent in error
• Enhanced out of office capabilities
• Flexible and resilient mail threads that extend beyond the inbox and include Internet mail messages

Improved efficiency and performance
Several enhancements to Lotus Notes and Domino 8 software provide an opportunity for
enhanced system performance. These include streaming replication for Lotus Domino
clusters and a variety of database and I/O improvements.

Versatility
Lotus Domino 8 server software runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Lotus Notes 8 client support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 WS is currently planned for general availability of Lotus Notes 8. The Lotus Notes 8 client offers a consistent installation process for both Microsoft Windows operating system users and Linux desktop users. Enhancements in Lotus Notes 8 for Linux include integrated instant messaging and presence awareness, the Lotus Notes smarticons toolbar, and support for color printing.

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Many of the new features in Lotus Notes V8 are the result of the move to the Eclipse/Lotus Expeditor environment. Lotus Notes V8 client encapsulates all the code that is Lotus Notes within the Eclipse environment. So, Lotus Notes V8 can be extended in the same way that Eclipse itself can be extended.

The flexibility of the Eclipse user interface has contributed to the Notes user interface. For example, the sidebar can display “always on” applications like the Activity Manager, a day-at-a-glance calendar, instant messaging, and the new RSS feed reader. Besides this, developers can build their own custom Eclipse plug-ins for the sidebar. For further information about Lotus Notes v8 client, refer to article at IBM Developerworks site from http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/notes8-new/.

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The newest mode of the IBM Lotus iNotes mail client — the Ultralite mode — available in Lotus Domino Web Access version 8.0.2. Using the Ultralite mode, Lotus iNotes users can view their Inbox, Contacts, or Day-at-a-glance Calendar. It is designed for use on a mobile device and is initially supported on the Apple iPhone or iPod touch. As a result, users can quickly access Lotus Notes related info (e-mail, calendars, etc.) directly through the Apple iPhone Safari browser.

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Datamation magazine released the winners in their Product of the Year contest for 2008 and Lotus Symphony won in the Office Productivity Software category. In this category, Lotus Symphony beat out other nominees Microsoft Office, OpenOffice 2.3.1 and Think Free Office. Read the complete article here http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php

Lotus Symphony Background Info
IBM Lotus Symphony is a set of productivity tools that are provided at no charge. The following applications make up Lotus Symphony:

- Lotus Symphony Documents,

- Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets,

- Lotus Symphony Presentations.

Lotus Symphony helps controlling the spiraling upgrade costs while ensuring access to documents well into the future with new standard file formats (ODF), get more from your current investments. Lotus Symphony can be downloaded from here http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/products

Lotus Symphony for Lotus Notes Users

Lotus Notes 8 software includes an integrated version of Lotus Symphony. It is possible to create, edit, and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations without ever leaving the familiar Lotus Notes user interface.

By providing support for OpenDocument Format (ODF), importing and editing Microsoft® Office documents and exporting them to ODF for sharing with ODF-compliant applications and solutions is possible.

Besides this Lotus Symphony applications could be accessed from within the Lotus Notes 8 tabbed user interface. Also clicking and sending documents via email from within the individual Lotus Symphony applications and exporting content to Adobe® PDF format is possible.

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