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Hot on the heels of their AntiSpyware product, Microsoft have just released yet another new product - The Malicious Software Removal Tool. How interesting. I’ve yet to seriously play with it, so not sure how it does (I suppose first I have to infect a test machine to do this properly. blah).
What’s interesting is that I thought I saw this come across as part of today’s updates from WindowsUpdate, but since I’ve rebooted and came home, I can’t seem to find it anywhere on my machine… It runs through the IE browser at the above URL. The realtime AntiSpyware service even caught the download. lol Dunno if it always checks for the same things or not (appears to look for 8 apps today). I have to remember to come back and try again in a week.

Speaking of useful stuff from Redmond, I do have to mention that I just love Microsoft’s OneNote 2003. Back when I was independent, I used it all the times to help keep track of various client’s projects. After I started my current job last August I kind of set it aside and forgot about it - until today. Dragged it out (ok, clicked the tray icon) and remembered how useful it can be. Great place to store bits and scraps of data, notes, journals, etc. All searchable and some integration with other office apps. Worth a look if you haven’t tried it yet - there’s a free trial.

Neat things it does:
* Cut and paste text from a web page and it will include the link where it came from
* Nice built-in screen ‘clipping’ service - C&P bits of your screens into your notes or other applications.
* Tag stuff as “To Do” - anywhere/any page. Then, when you wonder about that, just run a quick report to show all your to do things on ALL of your OneNote pages. Tres Chic. Besides To Do, also have several other note flags (Remember, Important, Question, etc. and you can add/customize your own too). All can be shown in one place whenever the whim happens upon you.
* Pop up quick “side notes” to jot something down, come back and categorize/file it later.

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