The SharePoint 2007 Designer is now available as a free download.
For those who don’t know what SharePoint Designer is, visit she SharePoint Designer web page and have a look at the videos on offer. You can download the product from the same site.
Quite often, customers and partners ask about iFilters. For those who don’t know what an iFilter is, well, when a Indexing Service needs to index the contents of a file, it needs to know what the format of the file is. A PDF file has a different format to a DOC or DOCX file. An iFilter file contains the meta-data so that the Indexing Service understand the file. More information on iFilters is available on the MSDN site.
For some good lists of iFilters, visit one of the 2 sites:
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2008/02/07/ifilter-pack-for-indexing-for-sharepoint-server-2007-search-and-sqlfts.aspxundhttp://www.ifilter.org/ (This site has some advertising content on it, but the site does have some interesting links to iFilters)