The death of traditional file names and directories
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The items of useful automatic analysis I've seen personally:
- Named facial recognition in iPhoto (I'm sure it's in other photo cataloguers as well - iPhoto's the one I use, though) - works pretty well, but relies on a pretty big corpus of previous, (mostly manually) marked up photos. Still pretty impressive
- Search engines (Google, obviously, and Spotlight).
Other than that, not so much
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
In winda's Locate32 is useful, quicker than native searcher, only searches file/folder names. I index every file (1.1M), updates every hour, takes a 2-3 minutes at low priority, can search whilst updating, has shell integration. Windows, Google, Copernic all spat the dummy and are tooooo slooooow with that many files, even when contents aren't indexed Yahoo Search tool was excellent, but I lost it and then discovered some hooligan over in sunnyvale had buried it.
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