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Monday, July 31, 2006 8:45 PM

YES.com - Find out what you heard on the radio this morning

I just read about YES.com which is a great tool to help you find out what you may have heard on the radio this morning. Just some thoughts on this: I love it! This reminds me of the Sprint service where you could do this before. I even remember there
Posted by descapa | 0 Comments
Friday, July 28, 2006 4:20 AM

Closing OneNote programmatically / OneNote Close API

The other day I was in a conference call and someone asked if you could close OneNote via the API. In fact you cannot do this via the API but when I was talking to some of the developers for the team they said that you could just send Windows messages
Posted by descapa | 2 Comments
Monday, July 24, 2006 9:29 PM

OneNote SimpleImporter with OneNote 2007

I wanted to take a minute today and write about a change that will happen with the OneNote 2003 SimpleImporter in OneNote 2007. First of all we will be fully supporting the same API in the next release of OneNote so we will accept the OneNote 2003 XML
Posted by descapa | 5 Comments
Monday, July 24, 2006 9:00 PM

Clip to OneNote from Firefox – Easy to create your own powertoy

I love this Firefox extension for OneNote , I use it all of the time and I think it is great. A few notes: This was very simple to make what the author did was to tell Firefox to copy the selection and then he calls "onenote.exe /paste" which will paste
Posted by descapa | 33 Comments
Monday, July 24, 2006 8:43 PM

Word 2007 Blogging: inserting a photo which already exists

The other day I was blogging and I wanted to insert a photo that already was online and I had the URL for it. I was wondering if in Word I could insert a <img> tag so that I could easily link to the photo. Well I found that you can do this in Word
Posted by descapa | 2 Comments
Saturday, July 22, 2006 2:53 AM

Office Communicator Keyboard Shortcut key

I *love* keyboard shortcut keys, I use them all of the time I actually come from a UNIX/DOS background and I love the command line. Using the mouse is really only that great for web browsing in my opinion. That being said I just wanted to pass on a keyboard
Posted by descapa | 5 Comments
Saturday, July 22, 2006 1:02 AM

Another batch of cool OneNote blog references

I just got the following from our test manager Mike who is totally hip to the blogs. I am passing this on because: It is great to see that people are saying cool things about our product We are listening to your feedback and doing whatever we can to make
Posted by descapa | 3 Comments
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:02 AM

OneNote Riffle one of my favourite mouse features

One of my favourite mouse features is a thing we have called " riffle " and you would riffle through pages. This is just like you would do with paper you would riffle or quickly flip through the pages in a section (or in the paper metaphor in a notebook).
Posted by descapa | 14 Comments
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:04 AM

Sending error reports in Windows Vista :: Watson on Vista

Awhile ago I blogged about Submitting Watson Crash information and now I wanted to update this for Windows Vista. Here is how a crash goes in Vista and where you can get the Watson Crash information so that we can diagnose your problem and you can submit
Posted by descapa | 9 Comments
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 12:19 AM

10 Ways to Motivate Geeks

I saw this post Top 10 Ways to Motivate Geeks and I loved it because I think it is very true for all of us. Now as I go down the list: Curious, yup totally, I love to play with things. Yes and no for me. I would have to agree with that, you just need
Posted by descapa | 2 Comments
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:07 AM

Tips for improving camera phone photos

I just saw this post: 13 Tips for Improving Camera Phone Photos which has some good tips for taking camera phone shots. Here are the top tips: Well lit subjects Get Close Keep it Still Edit images later Don't Throw Away 'mistakes' Avoid Using the Digital
Posted by descapa | 3 Comments
Saturday, July 15, 2006 2:27 AM

RSS Send to OneNote :: Omar Shahine’s PowerToy

I wanted to comment on Omar Shahine's RSS Send to OneNote PowerToy that he released a few weeks ago. I just thought I would spend some time and show some screenshots of this in action. You can download it here . He too was another of the OneNote PowerToy
Posted by descapa | 5 Comments
Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:20 PM

OneNote 2007 Beta2 Error Code – HRESULTs for OneNote COM API

I was just looking on the OneNote Developer site and I saw that we haven’t posted the OneNote error code and HRESULTS for the COM API. This is the HRESULTS that came out with OneNote 2007 Beta2: HRESULT Error Code hrMalformedXML 0x80042000, hrInvalidXML
Posted by descapa | 5 Comments
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:39 AM

New Office 2007 Product Icons!

I was just reading Digg this evening and I saw this: The new Office 2007 icons ! Check out the link ( Microsoft Design | Office ) and here are the images: Cool stuff! Hope you can match up all of the new icons with their products (hint: OneNote is the
Posted by descapa | 3 Comments
Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:57 AM

OneNote Daily Journal – OneNote PowerToy Contest Winner

I would like to feature another of the OneNote PowerToy Contest winners: Andy Gray and his OneNote Daily Journal PowerToy . I am just taking this from Andy's site : The OneNote Daily Journal PowerToy permits a user to quickly jump to date-organized pages
Posted by descapa | 5 Comments
Thursday, July 06, 2006 1:40 AM

Word2OneNote – PowerToy Contest Winner

I would like to announce another winner of the OneNote PowerToy Contest: Word2OneNote by Brad Covelle ! Here is the post from Brad: Finally, after quite a few months my PowerToy is released to the public. I was hesitant to publish it without approval
Posted by descapa | 6 Comments
Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:45 AM

Ink for Word

I just read the following from Ink for Word Write all over your documents Ink for Word is an addon to Microsoft Word that brings enhanced annotation support to Word documents. Using a Tablet PC or other writing device, you can mark up your documents by
Posted by descapa | 2 Comments
Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:09 PM

IIONA – Copy from anything into OneNote :: OneNote PowerToy

I am here to announce the second OneNote PowerToy Contest winner: IIONA by Dmitry Alekseenko . Dmitry created an app that allows you to copy from any application directly into OneNote with just a quick key combination. It is pretty cool and you can download
Posted by descapa | 6 Comments
Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:10 PM

Ed Helms @ Microsoft

I got the following in email today: Breaking Video News! Don't miss Ed Helms' on-scene report (ASX/WMPlayer required) to get an inside, non-biased view of life at Microsoft. Also be sure to check out the stories of a few of our most influential technical
Posted by descapa | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 04, 2006 1:02 AM

OneSnap – PowerToy Contest Winner

I have been working with Andrew Wheeler over the past few months to test out his OneNote PowerToy and I am proud to announce that is available! Andrew has been working on a program called OneSnap that allows your easily capture information from Internet
Posted by descapa | 13 Comments
 
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