Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Project Suspended
Due to lots of up coming work, i have stopped working on this project. Have lots of code ready though. Any one interested in continuing the project can take the docs and code from me. Just drop in a mail.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Introducing system search
This project is inspired from Google desktop search. Although I’m not a Linux user, I’m sure most of the users think about this feature. This project aims at building a cross platform system search tool that can be seamlessly integrated with any operating system, with a JVM of course.
The project uses a Lucene indexer customized to suite our requirements. Emphasis is laid out on designing an attractive GUI with equally attractive intelligence. I.e. to say that the system is designed to put very less burden on the system resources. I’ve planned to include a grouping tag to group the set of files into a related category. I.e., you can now search for files within the ‘movies’ group.
Furthermore, the system is designed to update its indices on the fly (i.e., on file moved, deleted operations). A provision for indexing rich Meta data for most of the common types will be provided. I’m also planning to include a preview pane to the results to preview the content (image, html, doc, pdf etc).
The biggest problem I’ve faced in Google desktop is that I can’t filter the results to a particular file type. This tool will include a filter option to filter audio, video and other configured file types.
Ever felt that a particular feature should have been included in Google Desktop Search? I look forward to any of your suggestions and improvements.
The project uses a Lucene indexer customized to suite our requirements. Emphasis is laid out on designing an attractive GUI with equally attractive intelligence. I.e. to say that the system is designed to put very less burden on the system resources. I’ve planned to include a grouping tag to group the set of files into a related category. I.e., you can now search for files within the ‘movies’ group.
Furthermore, the system is designed to update its indices on the fly (i.e., on file moved, deleted operations). A provision for indexing rich Meta data for most of the common types will be provided. I’m also planning to include a preview pane to the results to preview the content (image, html, doc, pdf etc).
The biggest problem I’ve faced in Google desktop is that I can’t filter the results to a particular file type. This tool will include a filter option to filter audio, video and other configured file types.
Ever felt that a particular feature should have been included in Google Desktop Search? I look forward to any of your suggestions and improvements.
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