In his last post (speaking of–no updates in 2 months!), the code monkey introduced me to copernic desktop search.

i had previously run google desktop search on my machine, but was *not* interested in it connecting to a port to do its thing (apparently a mini http server…i don’t like random web servers running on my machine), and it didn’t know how to search my network drives. quite lame.

around the time of the above post, i installed copernic desktop search on my PCs, and have not regretted it. It indeed is one of the best things since sliced bread. It’s allowed me to be very flippant about how i “organize” my data (why should i have to anyway? which probably leads to another topic–is search making us all scatterbrained and dependent on technology?) — best off, it allows me to continue doing work, for the most part (there are always those occasions where i need to organize data for other parties). It indexes my network drives, which is a *huge* bonus at work; since this means i can now autoarchive my Outlook on my network drvie and save space on the server, and my computer).

one thing i had to do out of the box, however, is tell it about a lot of filetypes that it didn’t know i wanted to search. i can understand .dna files, but .java files? they coulda caught that.

other than that, it’s been a great, productive 2.5 months using this thing.

Copernic Desktop Search — 5 stizars.