Instant Newsletter - December 2006

We're busy getting ready for Lotusphere 2007, our booth has been confirmed and we are presenting a couple of sessions but before we head off we'd like to spread some holiday cheer with a free tool and a coloring competition for the young and young at heart.  If you have a child, or a young relative be sure to let them know about the competition and they could win themselves a $75 Amazon.com gift voucher!

We've also got instructions on how to workaround a niggly Sametime Meeting Center bug, that still exists in Sametime 7.5 CF1.  It's a five minute fix, but it will really help your end users and reduce the support calls you'll get.
Sametime 7.5 Cumulative Fix 1
A smart update for all Sametime 7.5 Customers.


Lotus Sametime 7.5 CF1 contains important fixes and is highly recommended for all Sametime 7.5 installations. This package is required for customers who plan to implement the Sametime Gateway or the Sametime Mobile Client.

Here are some important documents to read concerning the Cumulative Fix for Sametime 7.5:


Installing Lotus Sametime 7.5 Cumulative Fix Pack (CF1)
About IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 Cumulative Fix 1 (CF1)
Sametime Fix List
Sametime 7.5 CF1 download



Free Meeting Assistant
Easily keep track of assignments during your next Sametime Meeting.


Ever administer or moderate a Lotus Sametime meeting and lose track of time? Forget where you were on your agenda or have the need to take notes? Perhaps you just want the ability to highlight or put focus on a particular part of the screen?

Instant Meeting Assistant allows a user to create and view an agenda, take notes and highlight parts of your screen.

But the best thing, it does all this while remaining completely invisible to other people attending the meeting, even if you're sharing your screen!

Here's the good news, we're  making Instant Meeting Assistance available free of charge! Yes free, no charge, no hidden gotchas, no timed code or license certificate. It's yours to use free! 

Psst, want to know another secret? It also works great with WebEx meetings!

Click here to see details and to download Instant Meeting Assistant

Disclaimer: This application is provided ‘as-is’. We provide no warranty express or implied. We’ve done our best, to debug and test. Liability for damages denied.

Holiday Coloring Competition
Get out those crayons and pens!


Do you remember your childhood and coloring pictures trying not to cross the line?  So do we and to make sure the kids today and the adults who still like to be kids get a chance to use both halves of their brain over the holiday season, we're having a little holiday competition.

Rather than spending too much time in front of the new PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Wii get out those pens and crayons and have a go. The competition is open to four age groups which are Under 7 years, 8 to 12 years, 13 to 16 years and 17 years or older.

Yes even the old folks can have a go, although the older entrants do need to do a little more than the youngsters. Each category has a prize of a $75 Amazon.com gift voucher.

Here's what you need to do to enter.  Click on the picture above of Santa and his Reindeer then print out the resulting page.  We suggest using a letter or A4 page size so that there is plenty of room to color.  

Now color in the image however you wish.  Be sure to give our Santa some facial features, and if you want you can draw in background objects.  For the 17 and above category, you also have to come up with a witty caption for the picture.

Once you've completed the picture, you can either scan it and email the resulting image to info@instant-tech.com or if you don't have access to a scanner you can send the completed picture by regular mail to the address below. In your entry be sure to include the artists name, age and contact details.

Instant Technologies
54 Ross Road,
Durham, NH 03824
USA

If you wish to have the picture returned, please enclose a S.A.E. and write your name and address on the back of the picture.  

All entries must be received by January 10th and the winners will be announced on January 21st 2007, the first day of Lotusphere.

Meeting Center Workaround
Implement Word-wrap for your Sametime 7.5 Meeting descriptions.


The Sametime 7.5 meeting center client has a tiny bug that's a bit obvious to ends users and it's visible in one of the promoted new Sametime 7.5 features.  It can be a pain as it does generate support calls, which every enterprise hates, but it is fairly easy to fix with a little domino designer work.

You can find instructions posted to my blog on how to make a couple of simple design changes to resolve the issue.