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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?
« on: December 22, 2008, 10:07 AM »
Locate32, Everything, and SearchGT allow you to search for files by NAME and or extension (filetype). They're all fast, SearchGT impressively so, given that it doesn't index your filenames. Archivarius, X1, etc. index not only filenames but the CONTENTS of those files as well.
-Darwin (December 22, 2008, 09:32 AM)
Thanks, Darwin, but I do understand the difference between a program like Locate32 that will find a filename and one like Archivarius that will do full-text search.  As I said in an earlier message, I do both kinds of searches.  What I really would like to know is what a program like Archivarius, X1, etc. offers that Copernic does not.  Since Copernic is free and these others are not, there must be something compelling that makes them worth the money, but I haven't been able to figure that out from the discussion here.  You, of course, are an ideal person to comment on this if you have time, since you've used so many of these programs.  (Let me add that I'm not looking for a program that will search my email files, since Mailbag Assistant already does that very well, and few other programs seem able to handle the Mulberry email client.)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MiniReview of Linkman URL Organizer and Search Tool
« on: December 22, 2008, 05:10 AM »
cyberdiva:  That is a separate issue altogether. URL's are directly due to either Outertech or your own Settings in Linkman. The Help (.chm extension) file is configured to run in an Internet Explorer window - IOW, the actual window in which you are reading the Help file IS an Internet Explorer pane, and all links within that file will always open in IE. You could copy the link and then put it into the URL bar in Firefox if you really, really need it to open in Firefox.
-J-Mac (December 22, 2008, 01:54 AM)
Thanks, Jim, for the clarification.  I understand that this is in some ways a separate issue, but it seems to me related.  I'm just surprised and a little disappointed that Linkman's Help file is configured to run in an IE window rather than in the window of the user's default browser.  Mind you, this isn't an important issue for me--Linkman behaves the way I want in every other respect--but since this topic came up here, I thought I'd mention this other related but not identical instance of Linkman's using IE when the default browser has been set to be Firefox. 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MiniReview of Linkman URL Organizer and Search Tool
« on: December 21, 2008, 08:22 PM »
On first (no configuration found) Linkman start the program tries to determinate your default browser and sets it as default also in the Linkman settings.
-Outertech Support (December 19, 2008, 03:33 AM)
I've just come upon another place where Linkman (I'm using 7.70 Pro) calls up Internet Explorer even though Firefox 3 is my default browser and the path is listed in the Linkman settings under both "user defined" and "Firefox."  In Linkman under Help --> Tutorial, you get a page that contains two different links to the Outertech website.  Clicking on them will bring up the site--in Internet Explorer.  I poked around in the Settings and saw that Linkman was set to use my "default browser" for going to URLs, but it nonetheless opened IE instead of Firefox.  I then changed that to "user defined," but that made no difference.  Linkman still opened the links by calling up Internet Explorer.  I should note that Linkman always uses Firefox when going to a bookmark that I've put in Linkman; it's just the URLs in Linkman's Help file that are opened with the wrong browser. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Corel PaintShop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate
« on: December 21, 2008, 06:56 PM »
[Photoshop] is expensive but you can get it cheaply by registering as student at a recognised institution (it doesn't have to be long term or full time - just an evening class will do at a recognised college - find a photoshop class!. Do check the local conditions at adobe.com by going to the academic shop for your country) and then buy the academic edition which is identical to the commercial product.
-Carol Haynes (September 13, 2008, 05:36 AM)
One caveat: though the academic edition is identical to the commercial product, I think you can't get a comparable academic discount on upgrades.  IIRC, you have to buy Photoshop all over again at the full academic price each time you upgrade to a new version.  I'm not 100% sure of this, but I think I recall finding this out a year or so ago when Photoshop came out with a new version.  I decided not to upgrade.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?
« on: December 21, 2008, 04:39 PM »
Thanks very much, edbro, both for the clarification about Locate32 and the recommendation of Everything.  I think maybe I'll give both of them a try.  If I learn anything earthshaking, I'll report it here.

Again, many thanks!

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