Closing the Digital Divide by dumbing down computing with Desktop Search.
It's not just people in the 3rd world that are on the wrong side of this divide.
Finally a reason for those who have never owned a computer, because of the learning curve, to purchase one.
It's now worthwhile to get that Camcorder or Digital Camera.
This app makes it all so simple.
Use computers knowing next-to-nothing and Flourish! Learn a few of the basic commands and be well on your way to managing, playing, viewing and mining those important computer files.
Is Desktop Search THE Killer App? You bet it is.
If it deals with: (Video) (Music) (Pictures) and (Text) like this one does.
Use it to organize: your favorite internet (web site URL's) or previous (search text entries)..
...
Check out the Search discussion at channel9.
msdn.
com(96,000+ views) Cheers ============================================================== My Computer system.
1 Laptop with internet connection.
1 External 120GB backup disk drive 1 External DVD/CD burner/player.
1 Mini DVD Camcorder (Hitachi 350a 10 X Zoom, 4 years old) 1 Digital Camera (Kodak DX3700, 4+ years old) NO Printer NO Scanner That and 1 Killer App called: Desktop Search, is all I'll ever need.
============================================================== My backup procedure: I just make a copy of my personal folder, onto my external backup drive a drag and drop is all it takes.
I like having enough video, pictures and music on my computer as possible.
Maybe up to 40GB of my 80GB drive.
Right now I have (15GB) of data to back up.
Takes about 1/2 hour to make a copy of that.
I do DVD backups of my new video files as they approach the 4.
7GB DVD size.
So all my Video, Music, pics and other info will have a DVD or CD backup copy.
The text related data gets backed up as needed.
My text backups take next to no time as the files are a fraction the size of videos.
I have copies of any software that I like in a "other_software" folder not much there, but handy to have a copy on my external disk drive.
============================================================== Reinstalling the Operating System: If I need to reload my Operating System because of Virus or some such, all that is needed is my OS Install disks and the external disk drive to restore my most current backup.
Again very simple and not error prone.
A few screen captures of various internet settings and other reload screens of importance, make it relatively painless to do.
**23Jul07** OS reload done.
My data reloaded.
Internet connection reloaded.
the few other programs can wait.
This makes me very computer & OS free / independent.
I can easily move to that nice shiny Laptop or to that 1st computer.
See some discussion of ReInstalling the OS at: http://www.
smartcomputing.
com/Editorial/article.
asp?article=articles/archive/r1006/03r06/03r06.
asp&guid= ================================================================ How I use my computer: (With Desktop Search) -As a text notepad.
-As a research tool.
-Doing screen captures and text grabs of interesting items on the net.
Then use the search, as a screen saver of these jpgs, every once and a while.
-I use 5000+ family album pictures, as my screen saver.
Scanning in the total family album took a couple months.
Some of the oldies are 60 to 70 years old.
This was probably the most useful project undertaken so far.
All the family members have a copy.
Old video formats are next! -I export all my emails to text, to make them mine forever.
I don't panic if I have to change computers.
All my email information is easily searchable.
-I catalog many Web site URL's, from subjects of interest.
The search places the URL info into the clipboard, when a match is found.
I just paste that into the browser.
I often run this search in random mode.
It never gets boring that way.
-I save Net Search (Google) queries, that I may want to find again later? -I don't use my Digital Camera as much as I should because I have Video.
There are many people that don't have high speed internet.
So do pics for them.
-As my Digital video repository -I even video net screens in, if the forum post has many many pages.
Video in your favorite book! This program can start and stop anywhere in my video files, by design or randomly.
The Slow motion display option is great for sporting replays.
==================================================================== Other PC software I use: paint notepad Internet Browser & Email ==================================================================== What data formats I restrict myself to: .
txt (Text) .
mpg2(video) .
jpg (Picture) .
bmp (Picture) .
mp3 (Music) And one or two more.
Others may want more.
Many more.
And that's OK.
For me, I'd keep two maybe 3 copies of those odd ball files.
One would be a screen capture of it saved to JPG (it may take multiples) A second would be a text capture of any text and numbers saved to a .
txt file.
A third may be a screen capture of the logic behind an excel spreadsheet calculation.
The final, would be a copy of the odd ball format itself.
These text and screen captures are far less space than video, so I don't worry about the storage it takes.
With the text and screen capture info, you have everything you need from those other data formats, far more searchable anywhere and not nearly as prone to data loss.
===================================================================== What desktop search opens up: This system can run multiple copies of itself.
Ie run 2 video clips side by side and in sync with this capability.
Computing is all about: (extract) (sort) and (report).
This app is a very good EXTRACT.
Beginner programmers can create useful add-ons that make this desktop search even better.
The possibilities are boundless.
NO database, NO SQL required.
(just not needed) The program can be used to navigate through training videos.
A sample or two, would have users well on their way to exciting training possibilities.
I keep my video segments to between 1 and 2 minutes.
They upload to the net without any editing when they are small and my program can play one after the other anyway.
The program can start play near the end of a small video much quicker than One that is 30 minutes long.
To create separate records just requires a OFF then ON, on the record button.
With Desktop Search You spend very little time computering; more time creating, exploring, playing and learning.
===================================================================== Finally: Rejoice, simple computing with all the goodies, is now here for everyone.
It's not just people in the 3rd world that are on the wrong side of this divide.
Finally a reason for those who have never owned a computer, because of the learning curve, to purchase one.
It's now worthwhile to get that Camcorder or Digital Camera.
This app makes it all so simple.
Use computers knowing next-to-nothing and Flourish! Learn a few of the basic commands and be well on your way to managing, playing, viewing and mining those important computer files.
Is Desktop Search THE Killer App? You bet it is.
If it deals with: (Video) (Music) (Pictures) and (Text) like this one does.
Use it to organize: your favorite internet (web site URL's) or previous (search text entries)..
...
Check out the Search discussion at channel9.
msdn.
com(96,000+ views) Cheers ============================================================== My Computer system.
1 Laptop with internet connection.
1 External 120GB backup disk drive 1 External DVD/CD burner/player.
1 Mini DVD Camcorder (Hitachi 350a 10 X Zoom, 4 years old) 1 Digital Camera (Kodak DX3700, 4+ years old) NO Printer NO Scanner That and 1 Killer App called: Desktop Search, is all I'll ever need.
============================================================== My backup procedure: I just make a copy of my personal folder, onto my external backup drive a drag and drop is all it takes.
I like having enough video, pictures and music on my computer as possible.
Maybe up to 40GB of my 80GB drive.
Right now I have (15GB) of data to back up.
Takes about 1/2 hour to make a copy of that.
I do DVD backups of my new video files as they approach the 4.
7GB DVD size.
So all my Video, Music, pics and other info will have a DVD or CD backup copy.
The text related data gets backed up as needed.
My text backups take next to no time as the files are a fraction the size of videos.
I have copies of any software that I like in a "other_software" folder not much there, but handy to have a copy on my external disk drive.
============================================================== Reinstalling the Operating System: If I need to reload my Operating System because of Virus or some such, all that is needed is my OS Install disks and the external disk drive to restore my most current backup.
Again very simple and not error prone.
A few screen captures of various internet settings and other reload screens of importance, make it relatively painless to do.
**23Jul07** OS reload done.
My data reloaded.
Internet connection reloaded.
the few other programs can wait.
This makes me very computer & OS free / independent.
I can easily move to that nice shiny Laptop or to that 1st computer.
See some discussion of ReInstalling the OS at: http://www.
smartcomputing.
com/Editorial/article.
asp?article=articles/archive/r1006/03r06/03r06.
asp&guid= ================================================================ How I use my computer: (With Desktop Search) -As a text notepad.
-As a research tool.
-Doing screen captures and text grabs of interesting items on the net.
Then use the search, as a screen saver of these jpgs, every once and a while.
-I use 5000+ family album pictures, as my screen saver.
Scanning in the total family album took a couple months.
Some of the oldies are 60 to 70 years old.
This was probably the most useful project undertaken so far.
All the family members have a copy.
Old video formats are next! -I export all my emails to text, to make them mine forever.
I don't panic if I have to change computers.
All my email information is easily searchable.
-I catalog many Web site URL's, from subjects of interest.
The search places the URL info into the clipboard, when a match is found.
I just paste that into the browser.
I often run this search in random mode.
It never gets boring that way.
-I save Net Search (Google) queries, that I may want to find again later? -I don't use my Digital Camera as much as I should because I have Video.
There are many people that don't have high speed internet.
So do pics for them.
-As my Digital video repository -I even video net screens in, if the forum post has many many pages.
Video in your favorite book! This program can start and stop anywhere in my video files, by design or randomly.
The Slow motion display option is great for sporting replays.
==================================================================== Other PC software I use: paint notepad Internet Browser & Email ==================================================================== What data formats I restrict myself to: .
txt (Text) .
mpg2(video) .
jpg (Picture) .
bmp (Picture) .
mp3 (Music) And one or two more.
Others may want more.
Many more.
And that's OK.
For me, I'd keep two maybe 3 copies of those odd ball files.
One would be a screen capture of it saved to JPG (it may take multiples) A second would be a text capture of any text and numbers saved to a .
txt file.
A third may be a screen capture of the logic behind an excel spreadsheet calculation.
The final, would be a copy of the odd ball format itself.
These text and screen captures are far less space than video, so I don't worry about the storage it takes.
With the text and screen capture info, you have everything you need from those other data formats, far more searchable anywhere and not nearly as prone to data loss.
===================================================================== What desktop search opens up: This system can run multiple copies of itself.
Ie run 2 video clips side by side and in sync with this capability.
Computing is all about: (extract) (sort) and (report).
This app is a very good EXTRACT.
Beginner programmers can create useful add-ons that make this desktop search even better.
The possibilities are boundless.
NO database, NO SQL required.
(just not needed) The program can be used to navigate through training videos.
A sample or two, would have users well on their way to exciting training possibilities.
I keep my video segments to between 1 and 2 minutes.
They upload to the net without any editing when they are small and my program can play one after the other anyway.
The program can start play near the end of a small video much quicker than One that is 30 minutes long.
To create separate records just requires a OFF then ON, on the record button.
With Desktop Search You spend very little time computering; more time creating, exploring, playing and learning.
===================================================================== Finally: Rejoice, simple computing with all the goodies, is now here for everyone.