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SpectateSwamp
6th April 2006, 22:22
Search text files
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context display or matching lines only.
hilited matches (max of 6 search elements)
hit counts for all elements searched.
character counts and elapsed times
no prompt box covering the results
fast, just hit enter enter enter (Keyboard friendly)
large font scrolling text 72pt (Screen saver for short stories/joke files)
Option to export the displayed results, to a results file.
(this allows for easy subsearches)

Search Video files
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View quick video clips rather than thumbnails.
Show the first few seconds of every video.
Much much better than those tiny blurry first frames.
Start and stop anywhere in a video clip. (no editing required ever)
Random video with random start point, in slow motion and freeze frame

Music files
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Random mini tunes with or without search keys (uses metadata from the mp3's).
Hit enter for the complete song to play.
Catalogue and play your music within minutes of the download.

Pictures / Screen Captures
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High speed display. See those burst of still pictures
that digital cameras do, as they were shot.
Flash through 700+ oldie black and white pictures in 35 seconds
Captioned or not.
I can randomly or sequentially view pictures with my 2 sisters
and their 4 kids. There are 10 such in the family album of 5000+ pics
Random was quickly added when people got tired of seeing the same old
lady at the beginning. Random is a KEY option.

This search is also a notepad application. If you search, you need a means to store text.
Add notes to a text file with or without date and time stamp.
Cut and paste all kinds of text from the net.
(job site info, forum text, website homepage data, copied and pasted to MY files)

It can do search and replace, for major changes to large text files.
Do search and replace right before you do encription, to really mess things up.
Encription is done as a search and replace.

**Desktop search should make your data portable.
Auto-Runs from DVD or CD. On any PC. (Backups come alive)
Runs as a background job. (create your own skins)
navagable, by picking one of the displayed options.
Great for training videos on DVD.

Works as a screen saver, scrolling text, pics, video, music.
(and combinations of all the above)
Random video, random pictures, random music and random text.

Run multiple versions of this program with different settings / defaults
(simply change the program name and put it in it's own folder)

No indexing required. (Indexing is a major limiting factor for most search engines)
Indexing makes it harder to run as a background job.
We arn't searching the entire internet here! Just 1 computer.

Digital video can change everything.
EG. for legacy system backups.
"Video in" a high speed screen display of all the important customer information.
Start and stop anywhere in a video to see the desired data
do this type of video playback in super slow motion.
(hitting enter freezes/restarts the displayed video)
Simple and cheap, DVD's are 25 Cents per.

I use very few file formats: bmp, txt, jpg, mpg, mp3.
Less is best here, 5 or fewer is real good.

It's guaranteed; data won't be portable, if you keep it
in the format of a restrictive application.
see what is even said about "WORD" format at:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Same thing for your emails, spreadsheets, presentations etc
(make a video of the above as a backup) very accessible and portable.
Do screen captures of important reports or step-by-step procedures.
I capture interesting web sites saved as a JPG then
Then copy the text from the homepage and append that to a text file called sites.txt.
This info will be around a lot longer than some of the sites. I'm sure.
I have most of my emails since 1996 as large text files.

This desktop search does all the above and MORE.
Can your desktop search match this. I doubt it.

Searching since the mid 80's with the Vax/VMS search.
Developing this search since 1999 using Visual Basic 5.0

Happy Searching.

Go to topshareware and grab your FREE copy today.
http://www.topshareware.com/Spectate-Swamp-Search-download-42932.htm

communist
6th April 2006, 22:43
Somewhere in that oddly formatted text you lost me.. its about desktop search with indexing capabilities? Well I tried some (rsearch, xfriend free) a few weeks ago but it turned out I dont have the need (yet) for a search software that can index my documents.
And for good reasons I just dont trust the big players (MSN / Y! / Google) ;)

In 99% of cases I know the file name so I just stick to FastSearch - its fast and only stores filenames in its index - and yes its free aswell (look it up on sourceforge.net).

I usually prefer dedicated, light on resources and compact tools rather than "jack of all trades" that hog memory and other system resources most of the time and only come in handy once in a month (not saying your software is bad - just not of much use to me).

setarip_old
7th April 2006, 02:35
Welcome to Doom9's Forum, THE in-place to be for everyone interested in DVD conversion.

SpectateSwamp
7th April 2006, 03:36
Another desktop search use.
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No need for a spell checker either.

Search those large text files that you have copied off the net.
Weird science, the unusual, areas of interest, books, etc.
And see the matches highlited in a context thats interesting.
You might get the urge to read some. Makes word searching fun.

foxyshadis
7th April 2006, 04:02
Aren't you going to let us in on how unedited search results are so much better? =p

SpectateSwamp
7th April 2006, 04:12
check an old video demo of random clips at:
http://www.dropshots.com/jusjus

Selecting a random video clip off C drive
Then a random start point in that clip
Playback in slow motion.
With a freeze on the last frame for a few more seconds.
(These are all unedited video clips)

If you have lots of short video clips like I do.
It is very interesting.

CWR03
7th April 2006, 08:20
Seems like spamming to me. Perhaps if it were Freeware instead of Shareware...

SpectateSwamp
7th April 2006, 14:02
You are probably right.

I havn't done anything with the search for a year now.

Maybe it is time to do something else.

There is one little VB program I think is cool.

Simple, small and very powerful. Probably unique.
a mini mini text search.

Search pictures tip:
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Use the noshow option. When.
I had just shown britni all the family album pictures
that had her in it. Over 5000 Jpgs.
Ashley wanted to see her pictures. We didn't want to see those
we had already seen so. Select a "noshow" for britni and did a
search for ashley. There were lots and lots of pics with the two sisters.

Wilbert
7th April 2006, 22:39
@SpectateSwamp,

I striked you for rule 3.

3) Keep the focus: Questions outside the scope of a certain forum will either be moved, locked or simply be deleted.

The next time you post stuff unrelated to dvd/video conversion, i will simply delete it and strike you again.