Monday, January 24, 2005

Snowbird 2.0

Madhavan's Software Page
By giving the program a location to search in and a query to look for, it will go straight to work. It'll take some time if you're searching through entire drives, but if you're patient, a beautiful HTML results window will pop up in your browser. What's great about this is that you can save the file for later reference. All of the results are categorized under identifying columns, such as: documents, pictures, programs, and so on. Exact and close matches are listed first, and the direct path to the file is given. If the program finds items like photos that contain the search query, you'll see them listed alongside the results. Besides basic filename searching, Snowbird Search can also look inside files. For example, it found an HTML file in the dark recesses of my drive that contained a string of text that matched what I searched for. This is one impressive tool, and that fact is amplified when you consider the age of the creator. Keep shooting for the stars, man.

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