Help anyone?!?

Ok after yesterdays Google ‘Feedback’ button I had another great chuckle today. Tried clicking the ‘Help’ button in the Quickr Migrator tool for DDM and got the following memorable response… 🙂

Error handling

Love this! Something goes wrong while writing a DM on twitter and in stead of deflecting blame (“Something went wrong”) or assigning blame (“Oops, it seems you did something wrong”) it simply takes full blame for the problem. Wish more sites / software would be so insightful! So […]

Recent Contacts – blessing in disguise or admin headache?

In Lotus Notes version 8 the Recent Contacts functionality was added. Users love it but for administrators it can be a bit of headache. The problem is that it adds all recipient and sender addresses to the Recent Contacts list. Not just external contacts but also internal contacts; […]

Little gem of 8.5.2

I love exploring the new features the new Lotus Notes 8.5.2 client offers, especially the small and quirky ones that you overlook so easy. One of them, I find particularly nice. The option to save mail messages to uniform mail standard files (*.eml) that include formatting and attachments […]

Business Partner Locator

Was entering IBM Partnerworld today when I noticed the link to the Business Partner Locator. As I had heard someone complain about the fact that finding BP’s through the IBM site was rather laborious and outdated and that they couldn’t even find all BP’s in there, I decided […]

Captcha

Did you now what a Captcha was? I didn’t until I started writing this blog. Searched for it and found out it’s actually a term, not a product or company. Oh well.  This wasn’t my reason for writing this blog, I just found the below Captcha quite funny. […]

Has Google gone beserk?

Yikes! Have you’ve seen those new background images Google put in yesterday?!? My God, here I was opening my trusted Google page to do a search and instead of the simple white page with search bar and funny but discrete picture I got this: What the …..?! Do […]

Usability

Wikipedia has a nice definition when it comes to ‘usability’ in relation to computer science: “the elegance and clarity with which the interaction with a computer program or a web site is designed” A very, very important part of designing applications and websites and at the same time […]