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Cubeless
Citizen
Username: Cubey
Post Number: 190
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 2:45 pm: |     |
Has anyone tried this?? |
Nonymous Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 8500
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 2:47 pm: | |
Yes, I have. It's pretty impressive, because it knows many file formats. It keeps an index of everything on your computer. The first time you start it up, it takes a long time, because it searches through each of your files. Thereafter, it looks at each file as you save it, which slows down your computer a bit. Not sure how much.
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Pizzaz
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Username: Pizzaz
Post Number: 2181
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 6:42 pm: | |
I'm disappointed that Google Earth doesn't work with Macs. This program is sooo cool. |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 1330
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 12:48 am: | |
Pizzaz... you can do something similar using google maps (maps.google.com) and click on Satellite. |
Earlster
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Username: Earlster
Post Number: 1212
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 9:10 am: | |
I tried it back when it was beta, haven't looked at it since, so take my comments with a grain of salt.
It did a pretty good job on finding stuff, I used it for example to find stuff in source code for a huge project. Great help there.
However, there were (are?) no privacy settings. If it's on your machine everybody can search all the files and webpages you have visited on your machine.
In general I felt that it didn't have parameters/settings that I could have used to fine tune some of things that I wanted to do.
If you are willing to pay a few bucks, there are better desktop search tools out there. Considering it's free it's not to bad.
But especially the privacy shortcomings would stop me from ever using it on a work computer. |
Cubeless
Citizen
Username: Cubey
Post Number: 191
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 10:20 am: | |
I would use it predominantly for searching MS Word & Excel files. Is it faster than the standard Window search feature?
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Nonymous Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 8537
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 10:27 am: | |
It is worlds faster than that, because when you initiate Windows search, it STARTS searching through your files. Google searches first and keeps an index handy. So when you query google desktop, it already knows where your object is.
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