I’ve been using Copernic Desktop Search for several months now and I think it’s really a great program, especially as it is free. I’ve recently tried X1, to see if I’m missing anything, but I decided that for the steep price there’s not enough X1 can offer me. This is even more true for the new (beta) version 1.5 of CDS, where a lot of features have been added. Although things have been extended a lot, there are still a lot of features that are restricted for no apparent reason. Here’s my list …
As I mentioned in a previous post, Copernic Desktop Search 1.5 beta is currently available to the public. One of the most important new features was for me the introduction of an extensibility API. When I wrote that first announcement, I hadn’t had a close look at the API. By now I’ve found out that it’s about extracting data from new file types, nothing more or less than that. I’d wish, and maybe I should add that to my list of things I’d like to see in CDS, they would extend that extensibilit …
Yesterday, I moved my blog over to the new release 1.5 of WordPress. I had been using version 1.2.2 of WordPress previously, as packaged in Debian unstable. Now I wanted to use the downloadable version, to be more flexible in the future to do experiments. The first problem I faced was that I didn’t want to have any downtime while I was playing around with the new version, porting my theme and everything. So I started off by cloning my complete WordPress database in MySql by dumping it to an SQL …
I just read a very interesting article in Chris Pratley’s OneNote blog, titled OneNote Shared Sessions. Although I’ve been using OneNote for a long time (and lately even more on my Motion Computing M1400 Tablet PC), I had never had a close look at that feature. Now I tried it, I find it fantastic! Not only does it simply work very well, it’s really easy to use (there’s a nice introduction at OneNoteAnswers) and it tries to be easily compatible with your network setup by using only one UDP port …
Copernic Desktop Search v1.5 Beta has been announced, here’s the What’s New page with the download link. The most important thing is right at the bottom:
API for adding custom file indexers
New COM API allowing third-party developers to create plug-ins enabling new file type indexing (view PDF documentation) That’s a feature that’ll really set them apart from other products, plus it proves to me they are really listening to their customers: I’m one of those who requested that feature …
This is obviously not new, but I didn’t know it yet: ILIDE#
I was just writing a utility assembly for the startup handling of my applications. That thing is called ...Startup.dll, which kind of made sense to me and resides within a folder called Startup in my source code hierarchy. No problem that far. Things started to behave weirdly when I created a small test app, a separate project in a subfolder of the Startup folder. Suddenly I got an error from Visual Studio: CS0016, … can’t write to file ...\test.startup.exe: access denied.
Usually …
I don’t know about other people, but for a calculator I still swear by my old HP48SX or my newer HP49G. Using RPN, of course… never seen anybody give up using that once he really digs it. On the PC, I’ve been experimenting with all kinds or replacements, but they all had drawbacks. I’ve been trying to use HP emulators, which were difficult to use because of the funny keyboard mappings, plus you needed ROM images for them and that didn’t always seem to work either. There are of course RPN calc …