Doc Fetcher : outil de recherche de documents offline

July 2nd, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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doc-fetcherDoc Fetcher est ce qu’on appelle un moteur de recherche de bureau. Il s’agit en fait d’un outil similaire à la recherche de fichiers Windows, sauf qu’ici, c’est la technologie Google qui est utilisé (et le vieux chien 3D disparaît aussi au passage).

Doc Fetcher est un programme gratuit et opensource pour Windows ou Linux (où est la version Mac OS ?). Il vous permet donc d’accéder rapidement aux documents stockés sur votre ordinateur en tapant quelques mots-clés.

Comment ça marche ?

Tout simplement comme un vrai moteur. Doc Fetcher va crawler l’ensemble de vos dossiers et récupérer les différents fichiers qui s’y trouvent afin de constituer un index. La première fois, cela risque de prendre du temps (apparemment, le site indique 1 min pour 200 fichiers environ). J’ai cependant noté quelques fonctions intéressantes comme la recherche de termes directement à l’intérieur du code source (pour les fichiers HTML par exemple). Après cette indexation, vous pourrez personnaliser les critères de prises en comptes lors de la recherche.

Ci-dessous la liste des formats de fichier supportés :

  • HTML and plain text (both customizable)
  • Portable Document Format (pdf)
  • Microsoft Office (doc, xls, ppt)
  • Microsoft Office 2007 (docx, xlsx, pptx)
  • OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress (odt, ods, odg, odp)
  • Rich Text Format (rtf)
  • AbiWord (abw, abw.gz, zabw)
  • Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (chm)
  • Microsoft Visio (vsd)
  • Scalable Vector Graphics (svg)

J’ai pu rapidement tester sous Parallel mais j’ai quelques soucis de ralentissement général avec le programme. Si vous avez l’occasion de tester Doc Fetcher, que ce soit avec l’interface complète ou simplifiée, n’hésitez pas à déposer votre avis dans les commentaires.

rbFrom the RamenosBlog here.

Yahoo vs. WolframAlpha vs. Bing!

July 2nd, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Meuzer – for the music.

July 2nd, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Music, Verticals, Video | No Comments »

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Meuzer is a free online music service that allows you to:

* Search and stream music
* Playlist, rate, and comment on songs
* Show you what your friends are listening to through the music feed
* Tag songs for your friends just like you tag photos

Meuzer was founded by two guys, Ashot Iskandarian and Christian Nuss, who wanted to remove the clutter and focus on the most important thing when browsing and sharing music, the music itself. Source: Meuzer.com Try it!

Search the Hive Mind with Wikipedia edits – Wikirage

July 2nd, 2009 by Guest Author
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Wikirage is a tool that tracks the entries in the Wikipedia that are getting the most edits over different periods of time.   I started this project to see if I could find an alternative to traffic data for judging Internet trends.

I was very impressed with the results and how they mirror what is going on in popular culture.

2009-07-02_1624Wikirage uses the edit stream on Wikipedia to find out what is hot and trendy in pop culture. The first step in the process is to capture the edit stream.  Wikipedia provides this reasonably up to date at this web address.   I’m currently not capturing Robots or Minor Edits, getting 500 edits a page spreads a time frame of 5-10 minutes depending on time of day and day of week. The second step is to visit the page editing for every entry that was found in the list. Wikipedia lets you see that. I log all of these actions in a database.

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How to search for, I mean stalk, your legislators!

July 2nd, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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An accountable government requires an informed citizenry.

Every day, Congress relies more and more on the Internet to communicate with the world.

Legistalker makes it easy for you to stay on top of what your elected officials say and how they vote.

Legistalker was created by Forum One Communications as an entry for the Apps for America competition.

The ever-growing database is updated every 20 seconds, and relies on data from Twitter, YouTube, Capitol Words, literally hundreds of different news sources, and others.

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Source: Legistalker.org