Wictor Wilen

I have been using Microsof Internet Explorer 7 beta for a while and I have noticed that some sites are reported as suspicious phising websites. The address bar turns yellow and a big popup informs you about it. A few days ago the popup appeard on one of my blog entries. The popup includes a link to a site in which you may inform Microsoft that you are the owner of the site and the site is not a phising site. I gave it a try and reported the site not to be phising site and that I am the owner. Within 24 ours I recieved a response from Microsoft that they had reviewd my request and a few ours later the warning was gone. Phew! I think it all worked very smoothly and I think it is a great feature of IE7. If you would like more information on the IE anti-phising filter, read about it here.

Ed Bott has put together a nice collection of screenshots and descriptions of functions and the interface of Windows Vista beta 2, in his article Vista Beta 2, up close and personal.. Check it out if you don’t have time to install beta 2…

When starting OneNote 2007 beta you will get a warning that informs you that OneNote 2007 requires Windows Desktop Search to fully support Instant Search and Searchable images and audio. This warning will pop up until you install the Windows Desktop Search 3.0 or until you edit the registry, which then will inform OneNote to use Slow Search. Here is how to modify the registryCreate a new text file called onenoteindex.reg and copy and paste below this text into it. Then double click the file and answer yes to the question.

At this page you can read about all the knwon OneNote 2007 issues as well as all the other Office 2007 issues that are known to Microsoft.

I walked through the OneNote Guide for beta 2 and found even more interesting stuff, here are some of the nice ones: Win+N creates a new sidenote Writing and pressing the Tab key automatically creates a table Read through the guidelines before starting to use OneNote 2007

The new Office OneNote 2007 has a built-in Calculator, really nice stuff! To try it out, just write a mathematic formula in a page and end with an equals sign followed by enter or space, for example:3+2=This will result in a row like this:3+2=5 It is quite powerful, it can handle operations like: +, -, /, * parenthesis so you can do formulas like this (3+3)*3=18 ^, for example 10^3=1 000 sqrt(n) for square root sin(n), asin(n), cos(n), acos(n), tan(n), atan(n) mod for modulus And I’m sure there are more…

I’m a huge fan of Microsoft OneNote since a few years back and I use it to store anything about everything. It all started 10 years ago with a simple Notepad document in which i kept all important notes; such as programming tips, important Urls etc. When OneNote came I felt that I was a few years behind :-) The new Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 (beta 2) is such a nice upgrade to the 2003 version. The most interesting things I found after using it for a day is:

Microsoft announced at WinHEC 2006 that Windows Vista Beta 2 is available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The beta will be more broadly available through the Windows Vista Customer Preview Program in the next few weeks. The timeline is still November 2006 for business and January 2007 for consumers. You can find some more information about the release in this Fact Sheet. Go to the Windows Vista Get Ready site to check if you are ready for Windows Vista. You can find the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor program there to test if your Windows XP supports Vista.

Roland Weigelt has updated the GhostDoc 1.9.3 for Visual Studio 2005. Check it out!