Windows Search Replacement

If you search a lot using windows inbuilt search program you must have noticed it is slow and if indexing is enabled then it becomes a great space hogger. Recently I tested for some of the search programs both sharewares and freewares. Here are some of them which I liked.

# 'Everything' by voidtools : It's the best I have found for the day to day simple file searching. Although it uses indexing but the index file is only about 1mb for over 100GB indexed files. It can be used only for indexing ntfs partitions. It allows only file searching based on names or type. Doesn't allow to search in network.



And one more thing it's freeware!

Visit Everything's homepage to know more.

# Effective File Search(EFS) from sowsoft : It's another nice search tool which could be used as Windows Search Replacement. It doesn't index files. You could search with different criteria like Filesize, Timestamp etc. It can search in network for files. Another thing it offers is to search for text within files using regex. It's very useful for programmer's point of view.




It's shareware product.

Visit EFS homepage to know more.

# Locate32 : Another search software using indexing. Very fast and plenty of search options.



It's a freeware product.
Visit homepage to know more.

Feel free to recommend your favorite search software.

Cheers!

Creating S40 Themes Online

If you don't want to download anything to create themes, then I have found a good site that allows to create themes online for Nokia S40 and Nokia S60 platforms. I have S40 mobile so I only tested for it and I found it really useful.

You can visit it here

There are lots of things that you can customize as compared to similar sites offering online theme creation. Here are are few of them:
# Customize iconset from many preset templates.
# Customize the highlights for grid and list views.
# Customze the wait graphics(progressbar alike).
# Customize sounds.
# Customize individual calendar month backgrounds.

and many more....

Cheers!