What desktop search should do.

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Search text files

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context display or matching lines only.

hilited matches (max of 6 search elements)

hit counts for all elements searched.

character counts and elapsed times

no prompt box covering the results

fast, just hit enter enter enter (Keyboard friendly)

large font scrolling text 72pt (Screen saver for short stories/joke files)

Option to export the displayed results, to a results file.

(this allows for easy subsearches)

Search Video files

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View quick video clips rather than thumbnails.

Show the first few seconds of every video.

Much much better than those tiny blurry first frames.

Start and stop anywhere in a video clip. (no editing required ever)

Random video with random start point, in slow motion and freeze frame

Music files

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Random mini tunes with or without search keys (uses metadata from the mp3's).

Hit enter for the complete song to play.

Catalogue and play your music within minutes of the download.

Pictures / Screen Captures

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High speed display. See those burst of still pictures

that digital cameras do, as they were shot.

Flash through 700+ oldie black and white pictures in 35 seconds

Captioned or not.

I can randomly or sequentially view pictures with my 2 sisters

and their 4 kids. There are 10 such in the family album of 5000+ pics

Random was quickly added when people got tired of seeing the same old

lady at the beginning. Random is a KEY option.

This search is also a notepad application. If you search, you need a means to store text.

Add notes to a text file with or without date and time stamp.

Cut and paste all kinds of text from the net.

(job site info, forum text, website homepage data, copied and pasted to MY files)

It can do search and replace, for major changes to large text files.

Do search and replace right before you do encription, to really mess things up.

Encription is done as a search and replace.

**Desktop search should make your data portable.

Auto-Runs from DVD or CD. On any PC. (Backups come alive)

Runs as a background job. (create your own skins)

navagable, by picking one of the displayed options.

Great for training videos on DVD.

Works as a screen saver, scrolling text, pics, video, music.

(and combinations of all the above)

Random video, random pictures, random music and random text.

Run multiple versions of this program with different settings / defaults

(simply change the program name and put it in it's own folder)

No indexing required. (Indexing is a major limiting factor for most search engines)

Indexing makes it harder to run as a background job.

We arn't searching the entire internet here! Just 1 computer.

Digital video can change everything.

EG. for legacy system backups.

"Video in" a high speed screen display of all the important customer information.

Start and stop anywhere in a video to see the desired data

do this type of video playback in super slow motion.

(hitting enter freezes/restarts the displayed video)

Simple and cheap, DVD's are 25 Cents per.

I use very few file formats: bmp, txt, jpg, mpg, mp3.

Less is best here, 5 or fewer is real good.

It's guaranteed; data won't be portable, if you keep it

in the format of a restrictive application.

see what is even said about "WORD" format at:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

Same thing for your emails, spreadsheets, presentations etc

(make a video of the above as a backup) very accessible and portable.

Do screen captures of important reports or step-by-step procedures.

I capture interesting web sites saved as a JPG then

Then copy the text from the homepage and append that to a text file called sites.txt.

This info will be around a lot longer than some of the sites. I'm sure.

I have most of my emails since 1996 as large text files.

This desktop search does all the above and MORE.

Can your desktop search match this. I doubt it.

Searching since the mid 80's with the Vax/VMS search.

Developing this search since 1999 using Visual Basic 5.0

Happy Searching.

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Only 1 thing worse than SPAM thats CENSORSHIP.

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See what you can do with unedited video.

I never get behind on my editing, I don't do any.

No advertisements, or sound tracks added.

This Hooded Crow is a first in North America and

has the birders watching.

http://www.dropshots.com/spectateswamp

search out "hooded crow" "whitecourt" and you will

see what is going on with digital video.

Hooded Crow Capital of North America

WhiteCourt Alberta

Canada