Microsot Patents Mood Stamps For Email

Looking through my RSS feeds this morning
I came across an
article
on SlashDot that mentions that Microsoft has patented ‘Emoti-Flags for
Email Messages’. Here’s the abstract from the
patent
form :

Email emotiflags
are described. A collection of emotiflags, each including a graphical icon
and a text tag is maintained. Custom emotiflags may be defined by a user.
While composing an email message, a user may associate an emotiflag with
the email message such that when the email message is sent, the emotiflag
is sent with the email message. Email messages may be received that include
emotiflags.

I wonder if ‘Mood Stamps’ in Lotus Notes
would be considered prior art or if I could patent the concept of mood
stamps for blog entries.

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Ytria Release New Versions Of Their Tools

If you develop Notes applications and your
haven’t used Ytria Tools then you don’t know what your missing and if you
do use Ytria Tools then make sure you have an active maintence agreement
and upgrade to the latest versions.

Ytria make a number of tools that are
really handy for the Lotus Notes developer and administrator out there,
like ScanEz which allows you to examine and change the contents of a notes
database, or like ActionBarEz which lets you apply standard actionbar preferences
across all views and forms in a few easy steps or SignEz which allows developers
sign databases without the need for an admin client you’ll find that these
tools really make life easy for the admin or developer and save a lot of
time.

I’ve been using these tools in the development
of BlogSphere V3 and over the next while I’ll be putting up some blog entries
for each tool and show how they saved me time.

So if you use Ytria Tools then make
sure you get the upgrade and if not then make sure you tell your boss to
reserve you a bit of next years budget to purchase them. They’ll pay for
themselves in no time.

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Hannover View Icon Changes

Mary Beth Raven has revealed
some of the proposed view icons for the Hannover release of IBM Lotus Notes.
The color pallet is definitly a bit softer with plenty of Web 2.0 pastels
but have the icons lost their ability to grab the users attention? Make
sure you have your say over on her blog.

A picture named M2

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Windows Vista and Buffalo TerraStation

One issue I came across during the Vista
Beta cycle is that I couldn’t connect to my Buffalo TerraStation HS without
having to type in a username and password. It seems that Windows Vista
wasn’t passing my username and password to the TerraStation in the same
way that Windows XP was.

The solution to this is very simple..

1. Run the Local Security Policy app
– secpol.msc


2. Go to Local Policies | Security Options
and choose the

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