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Tri-State LUG and what I want you to bring

by Chris Miller at 10:06:58 AM on Thursday, October 29th, 2009

The Tri-State LUG (the third state in the Tri always eludes me) will be happening on Monday Nov 9 2009 in New York at the IBM Building, of course. I know big shots like Mooney, Balaban and Novak will be there. I am sneaking in a session modified from Colalboration University on all the acronyms and making them work together.

What I want you to bring is, of course, tons of questions. But more importantly I want to start sharing and collecting social contact data with everyone. An impromptu discussion on being socially connected is welcomed and then the ability to actually connect is better.

You have time to do this, so grab a Poken and stop using all these dang business cards that stack up and are hard to find. Let us connect and then tag, sort and find you faster. Between my Poken and Gist while at BlogWorldExpo and the Social Media Business Summit the past few weeks I managed to collect a good hundred viable connections and their information. I gave you the banner above, so grab one. I might even bring a couple extras for those that did't read this.

There might even be a couple other announcements made there.

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Category: Conferences
Tags :TriStateLUG conferences

Location: St. Louis, MO

Day 1 with OS5 on the BlackBerry Storm

by Chris Miller at 09:20:49 AM on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I bit the bullet yesterday and went with the "gold" version of OS 5.0.0.328 from Verizon. One word, WOW. Speed, performance of memory and overall little changes make it very pleasant. Windows open quicker and close easily. Scrolling is fast and responsive.

When typing email in landscape mode, the SureType takes a whole new look and feel as shown here (fuzzy but I couldnt capture and use the SureType together so we took a nasty picture instead):

Image:Day 1 with OS5 on the BlackBerry Storm

Image:Day 1 with OS5 on the BlackBerry Storm

I can say it made the Storm even more useful and user friendly. One of those times where you say they would have gotten better press if it had come out the door like this.

UPDATE: I have had only one application issue and that was Google Voice with the new 1.6 that crashed. Otherwise everything else seems to be working great and just as fast, if not faster for some, as before.

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Category: Blackberry
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Location: St. Louis, MO

AppCentrist - the IBM/Lotus AppStore pre-launches

by Chris Miller at 10:02:00 AM on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

There has been much talk over centralization in finding and locating any product, template, widget, book, application, etc for all of the Lotus products. Apparently, the unveiling is near over at AppCentrist. The catalog is being populated. All from free to paid. The site isn't showing is all yet. But, it is being asked that anyone that wants inclusion gets in touch.

I do know they will allow reviews and ratings on each entry in the catalog as well.

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Category: Announcement
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Location: St. Louis, MO

The 2009 Podcast Awards are open, voters welcome :-)

by Chris Miller at 08:48:00 AM on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

All of the podcasts I produce sit under the TechPodcastNetwork and they run an annual award for numerous categories. I got an email that some of you like the shows and I wanted to say thanks and feel free to keep on voting. You don't have to do every category, just for ones that you listen to.

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Category: Announcement
Tags :podcast

Location: St. Louis, MO

A swirlie from my 8.5.1 task bar

by Chris Miller at 10:46:05 AM on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

I was loading back some widgets and plug-ins and was prompted to restart. I ignored this of course, since I had more to load first. While opening something from the taskbar, I noticed movement from the corner of my eye. Down in the dock, Notes was changing it's icon, and not for a new message

Image:A swirlie from my 8.5.1 task bar

The arrows at first looked to say it was replicating. But when hovering over it it, I was prompted to click to see the status. Of course, I did. Out slid the Eclipse Update window reminding me to restart. A the little things

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Category: Domino 8
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Location: St. Louis, MO

IBM Software testing days - FREE for partners

by Chris Miller at 09:18:25 AM on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

IBM is pushing it's partners to get more certifications. So for a few weeks, you can take mastery exams for free,

Everything you need to prepare for Growth Through Skills
From October 1 - November 15, IBM is offering free IBM software certification exams and technical sales mastery tests at select locations in the U.S. and Canada. This event is for IBM Business Partners to help meet the certification requirements for Growth Through Skills.

Apparently it is limited to two software exams per person and hardware exams are not included. There is also some slew of other requirements that go along with it. I suggest you review the whole thing and take some exams.

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Category: Announcement
Tags :Certification

Location: St. Louis, MO

IdoNotes Episode 67 - LotusLive iNotes screencast

by Chris Miller at 12:07:47 PM on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

From the free 30 day trial registration, to creating accounts and how the UI works, I run through it all in this screencast. While it is fast and offers small disk space, it is not Domino but works well in the ASP mode it was designed to be when IBM purchased Outblaze for the mailbox count and capabilities.

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Location: St. Louis, MO

Title	Duration	Size	Flash Player
IdoNotes Episode 80 - Lotusphere Abstract Creation with Paul and Gab	00:25:23	23.25 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 79 - Ed Brill on IBM at IamLUG	00:12:53	17.72 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 78 - Admin2010 with Bill Malchisky	00:13:45	18.89 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 77 - Nerd Girls Strike Back at Admin2010	00:31:32	43.32 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 76 - Lotus Protector Mail Encryption	00:17:50	16.33 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 75 - Exclusive with FewClix	00:25:04	22.96 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 74 - Doodle Around	00:24:33	22.64 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 73 - SnappFiles launch	00:19:51	27.46 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 72 - EXCLUSIVE Gist launch from Lotusphere #ls10	00:34:31	47.41 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 71 - EXCLUSIVE Tungle launch live from Lotusphere2010 #ls10	00:15:09	13.88 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 70 - FewClix and the Mac oops	00:03:04	6.60 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 69 - Lotus Protector 2.5 announcements	00:31:22	28.72 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 68 - Sametime Unyte widget screencast	00:03:51	8.97 Mb	Listen Up! IdoNotes Episode 68 - Sametime Unyte widget screencast
IdoNotes Episode 67 - LotusLive iNotes screencast	00:17:25	432.01 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 66 - Quickr on the iPhone launch with Jonathan	00:07:30	10.45 Mb

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I cannot even list all of the items I carry I found
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Non-stop. At my desk, in my car, walking to work and back to my car downtown. In the house there is a crazy zoned set-up for you home automation geeks.

I am a self-proclaimed MP3 fiend, to which I have tried rehab 4 billion times to no avail. Next is the MP3 hard-drive for the car that I found. Now what kind of music you ask? I will never tell.

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Incredibly fast English
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Emoticon-ese
Learning Korean
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Advanced Sarcasm

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Notes/Domino overdrive
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Sametime
Active Directory (huh? kidding)
Quickplace
LMS, LVC and the other L's of elearning
Windoze junk
MS Exchange versions
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TCPIP
Server Iron
Yeah, yeah it goes on some

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Get back to you here

Spells:

Hershey’s Stomach of Holding: Jess and I are fighting over who eats more chocolate.

Character Bio:

This will take far more time than I have today. I will start with I was born and still live in St. Louis, MO. Even though for a couple years I was never, ever here and always on the road, this is smack in the middle of the US. Everything is just a few hour flight. That part is nice. No beach/ocean/coast isn't the best. But with the travel I make up for it.