My Ongoing Struggle with Desktop Search
Well I have finally given on actually being able to run a desktop search engine on my computer. I have 512MB of RAM, and a 2Ghz processor, but every desktop search engine that I have tried has slowed down my computer quite a lot. I have tried Google Desktop Search and Microsoft Live Desktop Search. They both operate the same.I recently read an article about desktop search and the main thing that they focused on was processing time used by the desktop search engine. They came up with two products that they rated as the best, based on quality of search and the lowest amount of processor usage.
Here are the two that they chose:
They choose Yahoo Desktop Search as their best option for a single computer set-up. The advantage that the Copernic Desktop Search offers you is that you can also search network drives, which is pretty cool.
So which one am I running? None, I'm sick of slowing my computer down with another desktop search engine so I am going to try to use my mind to remember where things are.
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Can I get one of these Laptops?
The day that Lenovo comes out with laptops like the ones that they are testing here is the day that I move away from my Dell and buy a Lenovos laptop.Source: Geek News Central: Lenovo Tapes
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YWAM Tech Support Approachability
Here at YWAM - Reef to Outback it has been a struggle at times to keep up with the volume of support that is required. At times I have been quite distant and jaded towards helping people. It's gotten to the point where at times people would rather live with the problem then have to talk to me about it.Obviously this is not a good position to be in for tech support, or for me as an individual. It is definately not displaying a Christ-like servant attitude.
Rachel Cunliffe over at the cre6 design blog had a very challenging post for those of us working in YWAM IT, or any tech support in general. The gist of her post is that those of us working in tech or web support need to be easier to approach and more accessible.
This is something that we have been trying to cultivate on the YWAM Information Technology site. Some of the comments on some posts have actually gotten a bit too heated at times with certain topics (especially a Mac vs PC post that is up there). Sometimes we need to pull our head in a bit, get over it and remember why we are doing what we are doing, and that is to Expand God's Kindom.
You can read her entire post here:
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Google Desktop is a Resource Hog
I tried again to load Google Desktop on my computer since they had come up with a new version. It is still a resource hog and is causing quite a few problems on my system. I say still because I had problems with it before that led me to removing the application. You can read about that in the following story:The problems this time around include:
- Slowing down the system while I switch between applications, work in Outlook and browes the Internet
- Outlook does not shut down properly so when I restart Outlook it takes about 5-minutes checking the mailbox for errors
Today I re-installed my firewall (Zone Alarm) and while I was doing that I had to close Google Desktop. Since I closed it my computer has been running much faster again.
Tonight I will be removing Google Desktop from my system again. The ability to search on my computer is great, but I don't think that it is worth the perfomance hit that my system takes.
If anyone out there knows of a desktop search application that does not use a lot of system resources please let me know in the comments below...
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Robot Racing
This is a pretty cool site about a race of robot vehicles that were developed.There are some fun videos and stuff on the site. On March 29th you'll be able to watch the entire race on-line, a full hour worth of show. I'm looking forward to that, as long as I can remember...
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Free Defrag Utility for Windows
How to defrag your Hard Drive for FreeI am proud to announce that I am moving most of my IT related articles to a new web-site, Tech on Tour where me and a few friends will be posting news and information about Information Technology.
You can read this article on that site about Free Defrag for Windows.
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I am a full time volunteer with Reef to Outback - Youth With A Mission (YWAM) where I work in Communications and Information Technology. I am married to a wonderful wife, we have a five year old son and a one year old daughter.
