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Yarx Keese That Zelda Fanatic i am a wootest! Danicess Snuggle Slave! Fragapalooza! RTFM! Level: 20  Posts: 112/133 EXP: 37485 For next: 4954 Since: 03-15-04 From: Edmonton Since last post: 132 days Last activity: 18 days |
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| Google has released a new product that you can download. It's a desktop search engine that you can use to find files on your computer using their search engine. The engine runs through a web page interface. Basically you download their software, and install it. After it's installed you will see a new task bor for it in the system tray. It will start to search your computer and index files for easy searching. The system will perform full text searching on pretty much any file you can open in MS Office, as well as cached web pages viewed in IE, chats from AIM or MSN, and emails from Outlook. The cached files don't appear to be the ones from IE's cache files, it seems to do it's own caching... caching multiple copies when the file changes, which lets you view past versions of the pages. If you have it installed, it will also show local search results when you search on google's site. Now, this is still a private search. Essentially it sets up a local web host on port 4664 and allows you to use that web application do do all the searching. No info is sent to Google. If you chose to allow auto feedback reports of crashes and such it will, but nothing else is sent. The web server that does this will not respond to external requests So only 127.0.0.1 and "localhost" will work. A public IP will yield a 404, even if it's a private IP. (192.268.*.*) Overal It's a pretty cool application. Check it out if you wish. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.  Level: 73  Posts: 474/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Yeah, there's been a bit of buzz with these kind of applications lately, particularly as the next version of OS X (Tiger) is going to have a built in function like this. I use "Quicksilver" on my Mac, and it's brilliant. I can find what I want so much quicker and easier. I want to open the Terminal? Click Quicksilver and type "ter" and it comes up and I can open it  |
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Yarx Keese That Zelda Fanatic i am a wootest! Danicess Snuggle Slave! Fragapalooza! RTFM! Level: 20 Posts: 113/133 EXP: 37485 For next: 4954 Since: 03-15-04 From: Edmonton Since last post: 132 days Last activity: 18 days |
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| I wonder if OS X will ever run on a PC... Especially considering the changover when they went with the linux core. | |||
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 475/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| I doubt it. On Apple hardware, Apple can control the PC a lot better, resulting in a more stable machine. They don't have to support every dodgy motherboard and obscure video card ever made, they just support the Apple hardware. If they move to PC, they will have to support the myriad of bizarre and quirky hardware out there, and it will result in a less stable machine. And some more information about Quicksilver. Mmm.. quicksilver. Easily the most frequently used and useful application on my PC, although I want to see how Apple integrate the same idea into the OS....  So a little different (edited by ChibiTaryn on 10-14-04 07:26 PM) |
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Kasumi-Astra Administrator Level: 62  Posts: 901/1867 EXP: 1971846 For next: 12840 Since: 03-15-04 From: Reading, UK Uni: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 12 hours |
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| It's a good question, though. If it were possible, I wouldn't think twice about buying it. I have a lot of respect for Apple's approach to hardware and software. Although moving across for me would be possible (all I really need is the IM software, a text editor and Photoshop and I'm good), it would be prohibitively expensive. | |||
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 1755/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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A program that generates a list of your files and sets up a web server? No, that doesn't seem suspicious at all.  Actually, I'd probably be willing to do it, but Windoze's search works fine and the caching would kill all my free space.  |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 482/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Quicksilver for OS X does it stuff locally, and I don't think it searches files on mine, but it searches Bookmarks, Playlists, Applications, etc... I can set it up to search more stuff if I want, but I just find it incredibly handy to launch applications using it. Rather than browsing through Applications trying to find the stupid thing. |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 5408/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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Intresting, basically it won't use the network card at all whenever your using localhost.  It's good that they take a port like 4664, since if they would use the standard one (80). People with private webserver would have a problem. Wonderful, I hate how slow the inbuilt one is. I'm gonna download it right away and test. |
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Gavin Fuzzy Rhinoceruses don't play games. They fucking charge your ass. Level: 43  Posts: 241/799 EXP: 551711 For next: 13335 Since: 03-15-04 From: IL, USA Since last post: 13 hours Last activity: 13 hours |
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| i see absolutely no attraction to this feature whatsoever. Window's built-in searching works perfectly fine for me on the very rare occasions that i have used it. I don't know, maybe i'm the only one who doesn't close their eyes and throw their files into random folders every other day? Maybe i have some sort of super-memory, because i know where i keep my files *gavin shrugs* |
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Jesper Busy, busy, busy. Level: 69  Posts: 1019/2390 EXP: 2856000 For next: 13743 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden. Since last post: 176 days Last activity: 79 days |
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Originally posted by GavinIt's terribly slow however; the future of search is clearly the indexed search, such as Spotlight in Mac OS X 10.4, the search capabilities in Longhorn, and Google's search engine in both its internet search and the Desktop Search app. The attraction is that not only will you have to wait a few minutes to get a list of files with what you were looking for in the name, but you'll actually get a list of files with what you were looking for ANYWHERE in the file, including the name, and in just a few seconds as well. |
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Jill In love with a dream.. Level: 36  Posts: 407/528 EXP: 296548 For next: 11562 Since: 03-15-04 From: Teh Sweden Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 14 hours |
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| Effective File Search > Google. At those rare occasions when I want to search for something, I use that. I like knowing where my stuff is though.. and I do most of the time (even though it's a bit messy). |
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