Exciting news! Last week, Lotus released a bunch of new widgets in a brand new widget catalog on Greenhouse!!!!! These widgets help you do things like access Twitter, look up words from Dictionary.com, and find things on Google maps, all without leaving Notes!
Find a ton of new, useful widgets here: Widget Catalog (You'll need to sign up for a free Greenhouse account.)
Note: To download any of these plug-ins, you first have to make your My Widgets sidebar panel appear. To do this, follow these steps:
1. From Notes, click File > Preferences > Widgets,
2. Select the check box next to "Show Widget Toolbar and the My Widgets Sidebar panel."
3. Click OK.
After you do that, you are ready to download some widgets! Just go to the catalog (https://greenhouse.lotus.com/catalog), and see what widgets you like. Here are some of our favorites:
Twitter Gadget
After you drag the file to your My Widgets sidebar panel, follow these steps:
1. Right click the Twitter Widget and click Open in > Sidebar panel.
2. When prompted, provide your Twitter account information.This will be stored into Notes account preferences and will be a one time setting.
3. Now you can twitter from inside Notes! Yay!
Dictionary.com widget
You can use this one of a few ways:
Use it as a sidebar panel, and type a word in to look it up any time. After you drag the file to your My Widgets sidebar panel, follow these steps:
1. Right-click on the icon for the Dictionary.com widget.
2. Select Open in > Sidebar panel. You can type a word in and look it up any time.
Right-click to look-up a word from an e-mail, teamroom document, etc. Follow these steps:
1. Select the word
2. Right-click
3. Select Dictionary.com - Word LookUp. A window will pop up and look the word up on Dictionary.com.
Google maps
Look-up addresses and view Google maps in your sidebar. After you drag the file to your My Widgets sidebar panel, follow these steps:
1. Right-click on the icon for the Google maps widget.
2. Select Open in > Sidebar panel. You can view Google maps :)
Tip: You can get the full Google maps experience, if you follow these steps:
1. At the bottom of the sidebar panel, click the image.
2. Scroll over and click Add to iGoogle.
3. Once iGoogle opens, you can click the Maps link at the top, and the full Google maps will open.
Enjoy!
Julia Brown | 22 May 2009 01:46:26 PM ET | | Comments (3)
