[CGUYS] Google Desktop/Chrome: what information is shared with the mother ship?

2008-09-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Google Chrome EULA has many privacy issues that may affect state agencies. But these could be issues for businesses as well. I recall a similar issue with the Desktop program which after replacing the very nice and non-evil Deskbar search basically mapped your computer and any connected

Re: [CGUYS] Google Desktop/Chrome: what information is shared with the mother ship?

2008-09-07 Thread mike
Yeah, Google came out and said that part about owning your house if you upload a picture of it with chrome was not something that was going to stay. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080903-google-on-chrome-eula-controversy-our-bad-well-change-it.html Mike On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:50 PM,

Re: [CGUYS] Google desktop

2007-05-24 Thread b_s-wilk
Have you tried EasyFind? www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware Don't like it. Slow. Not enough choices. None of them could find the chocolate chip cookie recipe in the system. Of course. This is not a good tool for searching file contents as it does not index files beforehand. It is

Re: [CGUYS] Google desktop

2007-05-24 Thread Tom Piwowar
None of the search tools could find exactly what I wanted quickly without having to muddle through a big list of irrelevant results. None of the tools could search the system without first using Safari [Location = file:///usr... etc.] to open some of the invisible folders and add to the

Re: [CGUYS] Google desktop

2007-05-23 Thread b_s-wilk
Google Desktop has been a problem. Soon after installation, Google Desktop use up to 99% of my CPU for searching the same file for a day or more: a graphics file. Can you restrict what Google Desktop indexes to a particular set of files or set of directories? I know I can with Apple

Re: [CGUYS] Google desktop

2007-05-23 Thread Tom Piwowar
Can I take the old Find app from 10.3 and make it work in 10.4? It could find anything better, faster than Spotlight, et al. With Find you have to turn on the extra features instead of turning them off. Worse, yet, I can't search for anything inside the system folder without first using Safari to

Re: [CGUYS] Google desktop

2007-05-23 Thread Tom Piwowar
Have you tried EasyFind? www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware Don't like it. Slow. Not enough choices. None of them could find the chocolate chip cookie recipe in the system. Of course. This is not a good tool for searching file contents as it does not index files beforehand. It is

Re: [CGUYS] Google desktop

2007-05-22 Thread Tom Piwowar
Google Desktop has been a problem. Soon after installation, Google Desktop use up to 99% of my CPU for searching the same file for a day or more: a graphics file. Can you restrict what Google Desktop indexes to a particular set of files or set of directories? I know I can with Apple

Re: [CGUYS] Google desktop

2007-05-22 Thread Tony B
Sort of. Preferences allows you to exclude specified files folders. Can you restrict what Google Desktop indexes to a particular set of files or set of directories? I know I can with Apple Spotlight. Maybe Google does this too?

Re: [CGUYS] Google desktop

2007-05-22 Thread Robert
This is a fair question. Since you ask, I will answer. I have a LOT of software on my PC computer and I use most of it frequently. The software includes mathematical engineering design programs, graphics design, video editing, music composition, CD DVD burning and ripping software, and

[CGUYS] Google desktop

2007-05-21 Thread Robert
Recently I had to delete the registry entry for WordPerfect on my PC and reinstall same. When the new installation (including the new X3, so named because it is version 13 that superstition won't allow) my ability to search WP files for text strings was no more. The WP newsgroup said that

Re: [CGUYS] Google desktop

2007-05-21 Thread Tony B
I dunno the answer; I've used several desktop search apps and never had much trouble. The last I used was the freeware X1 (http://www.x1.com/); I never heard they had an X3 version (or a 13th version for that matter!). But I just gotta ask: What is it you do that you need to do these searches so