SOTU Sidebar Widget Demo

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My Blackberry Enterprise Server Push Utility for the Lotus Notes Client, allows you to create Jobs for individual Channel, Message, and Browser Content Pushes, as well as allows you to delete Pushed Channel Icons from defined recipient devices.

Time Tracker
The idea is simple. At the start of your day - upon completion of your first task - create an entry highlighting what you did and whether you feel it was an efficient or inefficient use of your time. Based on several requests, you can also select the priority, apply categories, or even align your time against a project.

For Lotus Notes Client v8.0 and above, you can use the Time Tracker Widget to make this process even easier!

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My Configuration-based Rich Text Mail Merge and Emailing Utility, Zephyr allows you to create rich, data-driven emails to support automated workflow - all via Microsoft Word Mail Merge-like architecture. Dear <firstname> allows you to personalize each email message not only to the individual recipient, but also to the individual application workflow event!

xCopy
xCopy is a simple configurable xCopy client for the Lotus Notes client. By creating and defining�xCopy Profiles, you can batch process your file backup or remote upload jobs. With the addition of the xCopy sidebar widget, you can easily kick-off these jobs, and modify both the xCopy Profiles and xCopy itself.

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06/19/2008 01:37:15 PM by Chris Toohey

While creating a redirection rule for http://www.media.yellowcast.net to redirect all traffic to the YellowCast media files to the BleedYellow.com environment (thanks Lotus911! You guys continue to rock!), I found myself using SOTU (my simple Remote Console Command and Reporting application) to issue the "tell http restart" commands. Today, I thought about how cool it would be to put that in the sidebar of my Lotus Notes Client...

I honestly don't know how an "end user" is supposed to do this sidebar widget adding (IBM - see how Google does it from iGoogle for a "how-to"), but I created a more simplified version of the "wizard" and added it as a Sidebar Widget - and for a first run I'm happy with the results:

Click the screen-capture below to see a full-screen Flash Demo of the SOTU Sidebar in action!

I've added this form to the v0.2 release of SOTU and will probably continue to improve both the Sidebar and the application itself. I've heard some great feedback and suggestions on this simple-yet-useful application, but always interested in hearing more. If you like it, or have a suggestion on a way to improve it - leave me a comment!