Windows 7 Federated Search

wow, this is nice.

Windows 7 Federated Search.
This Federated Search will change the scope of your search beyond your Computer. You can now search for items in remote repositories from your PC. It is based on OpenSearch and the RSS format. Since it is based on open standards, it becomes very simple to create custom ‘search connectors’ for your own remote repositories. For example, you can search Flickr or Twitter from within explorer.
Here are some search connectors.

I even created one for my own site :-) , you can download it here

search on windows 7 @ marcvalk.net

IE8 Security Warning HTTPS content

Since I upgraded to IE8, I’ve been a bit annoyed with the this security warning:

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It states: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely”. The first time I just pressed Yes, by pressing [Enter] on my keyboard (without reading the warning correctly), which obviously rendered me a incomplete page.

Note to Steve Balmer:
Why change this button press behavior Microsoft, just to let us read dialogs? It will cost time every time we have to read such a dialog, and as you know.. time is money :-)

Since then the warning came up a few times. So I’ve you want to disable this warning the change this:
in IE8, go to [Tools], [internet options] , [security] , [custom level]
and change [display mixed content] to “enable”

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Settings will take effect after a restart of IE.

*edit after comment
I’m not saying that you should disable the warning. If you find it annoying, you can disable it.
The “old” dialog was different:
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As you can see, this is the other way around. The changed it.
What you do with it is your choice.