>From what I've heard and read, Vista itself doesn't actually work and is *nearly* totally useless.
But that may be a biased sample.... ;) m ------ "[F]aculty have an obligation to the students collectively to prescribe a required course of study designed specifically for liberal education that is comprehensive, coherent, and rigorous." -- Jerry L. Martin -----Original Message----- From: Michael Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:07 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Google desktop search (was why psychology is hard) Does the Google desktop search work for Vista? I know that the Vista search is totally useless, and actually doesn't work. --Mike --- On Wed, 8/27/08, David Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: David Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [tips] Google desktop search (was why psychology is hard) To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 9:51 AM On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, beth benoit went: > Annette and others, > Do all of you know about "Google Desktop Search"? It's an amazing > little search program you leave on your desktop that opens a little > box where you type in any word you recall from a document or even > email you're searching for, and it finds it on any item on your > computer that uses that word or phrase. Seconded. For Windows, Google Desktop is invaluable. If you're on a Mac, you've already got the extremely fast and powerful Spotlight search, but there's a disadvantage: Spotlight does NOT show your search results with contextual snippets of surrounding text, the way Google does. The cure for that is SpotInside--it's an app that harnesses Spotlight's searching ability, but presents the results in a more Google-like fashion: <http://www.oneriver.jp/SpotInside/index_e.html> There's also Google Desktop for Mac, but I've found that it slows down the system, presumably because you've got Google and Spotlight each simultaneously maintaining an index of your stuff. And finally, also for Mac, there's SpeedSearch <http://www.smartcache.net/speedsearch/index.html>, which finds phrases more reliably than Spotlight does, and doesn't rely on an index. --David Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
