At home, I have everything sorted and so I hardly ever search for something. I just know where things are. At work, however, it is a complete different story. Becuz of which, I usually end up installing a desktop search agent.

I have been using Google Desktop (GDS) over the Windows native indexing feature. Though even that sux when it comes to code searching. I just end up using UltraEdit's 'Find in files…' feature. It would be really nice if GDS could add a few tricks like search in folder and stuff like that.

But noooo, they can't do that. Instead they can add some fancy ass feature like gadgets. For the people who don't know every Tom, Dick and Harry at the moment comes with gadgets. Not to mention the ones that are only alive for gadgets. It's freaking annoying.

Gadgets and widgets were cool and all, but in all reality I don't end up using it. And if I want to use it, I'd turn on something that only has gadgets or widgets like Konfabulator Yahoo Widget Engine or Rainmeter.

Sounds like Microsoft is flushing out their Old Technology line that have been morphing from Windows 3. Following the footsteps of Windows 95, that lost life support last year, Windows 98, 98SE and Me[sic] will lose all official support from Micro$oft. Of course, this isn’t set in stone as we have seen M$ being forced to extend the deadline for 95. However, we all know it’s for the best. There have been big improvements that came from the New Technology line and it’s actually worth making the switch.

Tough from my experience, if you’re running a crawler than it’s just better to keep it running the legacy system unless you are interested in switching to Linux.

If you have Windows XP and higher and you are a big time Alt+TAB user, you just might like TaskSwitchXP. Specially when you have about 30 zillion windows open. I tried the the Alt+TAB replacement powertoy from Microsoft, but this is much better than that. Why do I say that? Well first, it’s customizable, and next its actually faster which adds the extra oomph.

When you have many many windows open, like I sometimes do, it’s very handy to be able to see which one of the chat windows you really want to go to. or which one of the browser window is the one you want. The small screen shot of the window gives better visual cue than actually just reading each title bar at time. What more can you want? Yes, I have multiple monitors, it kicks ass.

Now if you don’t use Alt+TAB, then oh well, I’ll find you something better some other time.