Users who want to perform a search in Windows usually do so from the Windows start menu where the search link (Windows XP) or search form (Windows Vista and Windows 7) is available. An alternative – and often faster – way of accessing the search interface in Windows is to create a search shortcut on [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Sep 21st, 2009
- Comments: 3
Don’t search, do – with GNOME Do
Recently I wrote an an article covering the Easystroke mouse gesture tool (”Start applications using mouse gestures with Easystroke“.) That article explained how easily you can set up a simple mouse gesture to start an application. In the comments one reader brought up the handy GNOME desktop tool GNOME Do. GNOME Do is one of [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Aug 27th, 2009
- Comments: 3
Google Desktop: Search just about everywhere (especially Google)
Searching a PC filesystem is something people do on a daily basis. I am always shocked at how often I see people searching for files they have created and can not locate. There are a lot of tools out there to aid the user in their searching. For the Linux operating system there is Beagle, [...]
Portable Desktop Search Software TheSearchMan
Desktop search engines come in all sizes and shapes. One can download and install one of the desktop search engines provided by big companies like Microsoft’s Windows Search or Google Desktop Search or a third party software like Everything or Locate which usually prove to be more lightweight.
TheSearchMan definitely falls in the second category with [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jul 16th, 2009
- Comments: 2
Omnipresent Search Interface GNOME Deskbar
The GNOME Deskbar applet serves as a one-stop shop for all of your desktop searching needs. Deskbar manages this by using various plugins to interact with different Linux desktop search tools. But Deskbar isn’t limited to just a search tool. With Deskbar you can: search with Beagle, search the web, recent documents, launch programs, calculate [...]
Desktop Search Engine DocFetcher
DocFetcher is a document search engine that, unlike prominent desktop search engines such as Google Desktop Search or Everything, is best suited for indexing and managing document formats only. Most document types are supported starting with plain text documents to scripting languages such as html or php to Microsoft Office formats like doc and xls [...]
Tags For Your Files
The usual way of organizing files is by either performing a realtime search on the computer system or by using a search software that build an index of files which speeds up the search tremendously. The search usually finds file names and directories but can also search for information contained in the files, at least [...]
