From Spy to Try to Buy
Mon, May 13th 2013 12:20p Ben Langhinrichs One good way to introduce people to the features of a product such as the Midas Rich Text LSX is to build samples. I originally thought of this as Try first, then Buy. Or to be that simple: From Try to Buy. There are 24 available on the Midas LSX samples page, which is a mixed blessing. Sometimes it is overwhelming. The biggest problem though, is that people have to request a Midas evaluation license, download the software and sample and install just to see if it is worth it to them. If they kno [read] Keywords: lsx
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Looking for Notes/Domino books for free advertising
Tue, May 7th 2013 5:50a Ben Langhinrichs As part of my new Mini-Lessons.info tutorial site, I use the sidebar to list resources (mostly books) that are related to the topic. While I have some of the obvious IBM Notes/Domino books already, I'd like to add any others that people feel are a good fit. Also, if you've written or helped with one, let me know and I'll add that as well. If you have written or know of a good book in the other categories, GIMP, ePublishing, Web Design (esp. CSS and HTML), please let me know as well, of course [read] Keywords: domino
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Mini-Lessons.info - tutorials on Notes/Domino and more
Mon, May 6th 2013 10:58a Ben Langhinrichs I wanted to introduce my new site, Mini-Lessons.info, as a place to find brief but useful demos and tutorials on a number of topics. There are a number of mini-lessons on Gimp 2.8 (a free open source alternative to Photoshop), as well as a few on IBM Notes/Domino and on our Genii Software products. I'm not sure whether I have worked out all the issues with leaving comments yet, but there are useful tutorials there. Of course, I am always open to suggestions. I want to do a series on XPages, as [read] Keywords: domino
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Time for you to revisit Google Plus
Sat, Apr 20th 2013 9:30a Ben Langhinrichs While a number of people I know in the IBM world are active in Google+, there are many others who clearly tried it out for a while but gave it up after last posting in early 2012. It's time to revisit your profile and see how things like Communities and improved Hang Outs have made Google+ more and more useful. There are IBM-related communities such as XPages and IBM Domino Developers and IBM Connections Professionals & Power Users, as well as many, many more active communities on other top [read] Keywords: connections
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Borders without Borders - tips for table borders
Thu, Apr 18th 2013 10:49a Ben Langhinrichs It seemed about time to create another video demo on IBM Notes, so this is a short exploration of some of the things you can do with borders in tables either in documents or on a form/page/etc. (which are rich text as well). No third party tools or even Domino Designer needed. All of this can be done by any Notes user. If you are curious, you can download the image file used for the border. [read] Keywords: domino
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Cut out a figure from complex background in Gimp
Wed, Apr 17th 2013 3:55p Ben Langhinrichs It's hard to believe that it was only a month ago that I posted my Elevator Pitch demos post in which I suggested that very short Youtube demos, like an elevator pitch compared to a full presentation, might have a special appeal to people. Since then, I have produced fifteen of these short videos (plus a longer one for the Crystal Coex story) averaging under two and a half minutes. Those videos have accumulated 2500 together with momentum growing all the time. Several have been on Gimp 2.8, the [read] Keywords: lsx
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Mini-lessons and mini-demos are proving very popular
Mon, Apr 15th 2013 11:06a Ben Langhinrichs My approach of making very short demos and tutorials has been well received (in my estimation). The most popular video showing the Midas Rich Text LSX has about 500 views, while the most popular Gimp 2.8 mini-lesson has about 1000 views. I have been encouraged enough to purchase a better microphone and pop filter, so I will re-record all of the tutorials and demos when that arrives. Until then, I apologize for the scratchy audio. I created my first playlist for the Gimp 2.8 videos (see below), a [read] Keywords: ibm
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Size Matters - the video
Thu, Apr 11th 2013 11:28a Ben Langhinrichs I can't only make tutorials on tech features of Gimp, Notes and our products. It seemed about time to turn my Crystal Coex story into a video. You can find more serious information on CoexLinks and how it can help with your doclink issues either on the CoexLinks page or in the video below. You can also request an evaluation license and try it out for yourself. [read] Keywords: notes
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Find and redact credit card numbers in Notes rich text
Wed, Apr 10th 2013 12:10p Ben Langhinrichs Since Devin Olson happened to mention regular expressions yesterday in a post, I thought I'd make a very short video demo of using the Midas Rich Text LSX to find and replace strings inside rich text (in tables, text or anywhere) using regular expressions. This capability has been available since Midas 4.x was released a few years ago, and allows batch processing with all of the speed and reliability you have come to expect of the Midas Rich Text LSX. You can download the sample database from o [read] Keywords: lsx
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Do you use EPUB in your company?
Tue, Apr 9th 2013 10:00a Ben Langhinrichs One of the features in our new Midas Rich Text LSX 5.0 release will be EPUB support. I would be interested in working with a couple of companies who use, or have interest in using, EPUB format for accessing data via smartphones or ereaders or whatever. While the EPUB generation is good now, there are choices to be made regarding large scale generation, on-demand generation and generation for EPUB 3 devices. Contact me if you are interested at GeniiMail("Ben.Langhinrichs", "GeniiSoft.com"); [read] Keywords: lsx
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