If you’re using the Firefox browser, you may have already used its Find tool. Although the concept itself isn’t different from the Find feature in Internet Explorer or other programs, the way it’s implemented is. Gary Price has more on Find as You Type.
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Google now searches your PC
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines, Software
It’s almost as if this were a major presidential election story, with all the press it got yesterday: Google has launched a desktop search tool. Once you set up the software download, it indexes your computer for certain types of files, including e-mail, .TXT, HTML, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, AOL instant messages, and…
FireFox to Go
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
If you have switched from IE to FireFox, or even if you just use FireFox as an occasional browser, you might want to check out Portable Firefox. It’s a smaller, more portable version of FireFox that is stored on your USB thumb drive, and you can then install a fully functional version of…
To IE or Not to IE?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
There has been a lot of fuss lately over whether, for security reasons, we should all dump our copies of Internet Explorer in favor of Mozilla’s FireFox product. In fact, the Executive Editor over at CNet has officially dumped Internet Explorer. But I tend to agree with the story (also from CNet) Planning to…
Take RoboForm wherever you go
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
If you use AI RoboForm to manage your passwords and personal information, you know how valuable it is. Now you can use RoboForm on any computer, if you own a Flash drive or other portable media storage device. Just download Portable RoboForm to your device, and whenever you plug it into a computer it starts…
A research tool with something for everyone
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines, Software
Copernic: Looking Within
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines, Software
Copernic, which has previously been known for its meta-search tool and meta toolbar, is turning inward with its Copernic Desktop Search, a product that will index and search your computer for files. Best of all, it’s free! Gary Price has a review at SearchDay.
The danger within
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in E-Discovery, Software
If you aren’t paying attention to your metadata you should be. Workshare, the company that sells the DeltaView product, is sponsoring Metadatarisk.org, the “definitive source for content security.” You’ll find lots of good resources here, from learning about metadata to safe removal of metadata from your documents.
Not surprisingly, this site was introduced…
New version of spyware removal tool released
By Tom Mighell on
Ad-Aware, the great spyware removal tool, has released Ad-Aware SE, with additional enhancements and protections.
As I have mentioned here before, both Ad-Aware and SpyBot Search & Destroy are great free spyware removal tools — you should be using both of them, because each program catches different spyware.
An article last week…
We don’t need no stinkin’ keywords
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
Blinkx is a new search tool that doesn’t rely on keyword searches to find sites for you. Instead, Blinkx takes up residence in programs like Outlook, Word, and your web browser, and sits quietly in the background, watching the words you write and the sites you visit. If you want to learn more about the…