Here are a few free windows search engines which are pretty fast when it comes to searching for files on your windows desktop.

1. Everything search engine

Everything is not only fast but also light on your resources. It sits quietly in the system tray while caching any new files that are added to your desktop.

Features

• Fast search
• Small installation file
• Quick file indexing
• Minimal resource usage
• Real-time updating

Download

• Everything

2. Ava Find

Ava Find offers a free version as well as a paid version. By far this is the fastest windows search engine available.

Features

• Fast Search
• Find newly downloaded files
• Find documents you just saved
• Browse music and videos
• Search network drives
• Block folders
• Use * and ? wildcards for search

Download

• Ava Find

I’m a fan of Adobe AIR and if you happen to have Adobe AIR installed then you too might like these 9 apps listed here .

Have fun!!

So whats great you ask eh?

I’m not a big fan of such meta searchers but LeapFish looks a lot better and more appealing than the hundreds of met search engines out there.

The clean interface coupled with the entire site being AJAXy, makes it so much easier to search multiple search engines.

The ease with which you can search not only the regular search results, but from blogs, images, news and videos makes LeapFish an indispensable site.

For all you lazy people, check out the sites pagination. The moment you click on the page number to go to the next page, the site automatically gets you to the top of the page! Sweet isn’t it?

Trust me, this is one meta search engine that is not going to be irritating to use.

If you do not like the AJAXy feel, you also have the option to switch over to a more traditional approach to search, although I prefer the AJAXy one.

Do give LeapFish a spin and let me know if you like it ;o)

P.S. I just made LeapFish my homepage!

]]> http://www.iSimplyBlog.com/leapfish/836/feed/ 1 http://www.iSimplyBlog.com/find-any-place-in-bangalore-via-sms/700/ http://www.iSimplyBlog.com/find-any-place-in-bangalore-via-sms/700/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:06:11 +0000 Nischal Shetty http://iSimplyBlog.com/?p=700 Have you had trouble reaching a place around Bangalore city?

Was there a time when you urgently needed cash but could not locate an ATM nearby?

Well, not to worry anymore if you are in Bangalore!

Latlong is a service for Bangalore city which gives you directions to any place, helps you locate ATM’s, Cinema Halls, restaurants and other such utilities easily.

Whats more convenient is that the service is available at no extra charge via SMS. Your service provider may charge you according to your SMS plan.

SMS to 90088 90088

Examples :

If you wanted to get directions to Sanjay Nagar from M.G. Road send an sms :

GO m g road TO sanjay nagar

Similarly, if you needed to find an ATM near infantry road :

WHERE atm NEAR infantry road

So the next time you need to know where you can have a cup of coffee near M.G. ROAD , all you need to do is send an sms

WHERE ccd NEAR M G Road

Trust me, a lot can happen over coffee ;o)

Note: The keywords are NOT case sensitive.

The 2009 Java 4k competition requires that the size of the games made should not exceed 4kb.

This game seems to be fun to play and addictive too! I got a score of 162 (stop laughing at my low score!).

Go give it a shot. Hope you have fun playing Left 4k Dead .

I discovered a cool site a few days back but was a bit busy to blog about it. So, I  thought of setting a reminder. Now I did not want to register at some site and fill in a long list of text fields just for this.

Remindr came in handy ;o)

Remindr was written as part of the Rails Rumble contest. It’s a nice simple application which reminds you about any tasks that you set. You do not have to register. This is as simple as it can get.

I tried typing in Troy and got quite a few satisfactory movies like Gladiator , Braveheart , 300 etc. which matched the one I had entered. So what the engine basically does is to find similar movies of interest for you.

Besides finding interesting movies for you, ClerkDogs also lets you view information about the various movies and also buy them from Amazon.

The site says:

We have designed this innovative search engine
for the movie buffs who have seen so many movies that they’re having a
hard time finding new ones (or old ones) that they will really love. I
hope you find hundreds of great movies!

Oxite , as it is called is not just a blogging platform. It has much more than that.

Alright, at first look, it seems it’s got just about everything you would need to build any type of website.

The site says:

Oxite is an open source, standards compliant, and highly extensible content management platform that can run anything from blogs to big web sites. We know this because it runs MIX Online.

The main site, visitmix which acts like a community for web designers and developers also uses Oxite .

Some of the exciting features of Oxite:

• Pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting
• Gravatar support
• RSS feeds at any page level
• Support for MetaWebLog API (think Windows Live Writer integration made easy)
• Web admin panel
• Support for Open Search format allowing users to search your site using their browser’s search box
• Add pages as a child of another page
• Support for multiple blogs on one site

Oxite was released on December 5, 2008 and is currently in Alpha.

Oxite requires:

• ASP.NET MVC
• SQL Express 2005 or 2008

From what I know, you would need a windows based hosting plan to be able to run Oxite. This can be a let down for all those who are on Linux hosting.

If you plan to use Oxite for your site, do not forget to notify them about it since they would be putting up a link to your site from the main site!

Download Oxite

You hold your keyboard like a guitar, the F1 to F5 keys act like the strings of a guitar and the Enter key is used to strum.

Before you start, have a look at the tutorial . After all, every great artist first needs to learn.

Some of the features of Jam Legend :

Turn-based Multiplayer : Duel your friends through E-mail, IM, or social networks (coming soon!) and let them play on their schedule.

Real-time Massive Multiplayer: Take on thousands of users in live, real-time showdowns.

New Songs: Experience new songs as artists join the JamLegend Platform

Compete Against The World: Become JamLegendry as you see how you rank against other players from around the world

Tournaments : Earn prizes for being the best

I hope your Jam sessions become LEGENDARY.

Songbeat is the music player for your Desktop: Find, listen, and download! You can organize, label, and filter your music in the Songbeat library or burn it directly to CD. Save and record online radio stations and discover new music through digital mixtapes. With just one click, you can automatically export these to iTunes, Winamp and Windows Media Player.

SongBeat can be considered as a dream player for those who prefer downloading music over the Internet. Imagine being able to listen to any music available over the Internet and the ability to download your favourite music right through your music player.

SongBeat even gives you the option to save and record online music stations.

Do you have a set of favourites that you would want to gift to your friends? Burn it to a disc using SongBeat.

In simple words, satisfy all your music needs with SongBeat. Try it, it’s free!