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X-Friend - 0.2.1

desktop search engine (like Google desktop search)

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All Time:	(3.0)
This Version:	(3.0)
Current Version:	0.2.1
Release Date:	2004-11-23
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	1,449
Downloads (all versions):	1,449

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Product Description:

x-friend is your search engine for desktop searches at no charge. x-friend's search functionality includes full text search and meta data search. Search results will be displayed within seconds and can be categorized by file type, date, size etc. Additionally, x-friend searches the internet, product catalogues, internet news (RSS-feeds), emails and other search services. x-friend offers a P2P-like search in external shared folders of other x-friend users. Therefore, x-friend enables you to set up a client-server environment easily. At the moment x-friend supports more than 20 file types and their meta-information. For example, x-friend indexes jpeg, mp3, doc, xls, pdf, txt and other formats. x-friend is made on pure Java. It runs on any popular operating system such as Windows, Linux or Mac OS. You just need your webbrowser. Immediately after installation x-friend will be available as a web-service on your computer.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.0

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X

Feedback Summary:

This Version:
Overall Rating:	(3.0)	Features:	(4.0)	Support:	(1.0)
Ease of Use:	(2.0)	Quality / Stability:	(3.0)	Price:	Not rated (0.0)

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Good idea, needs some work - Version: 0.2.1, 11/23/2004 10:12AM PST

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iayork

Not surprisingly for a "0.2.1" release, this still needs some work, at least as far as user interface. It's very non-Mac-like, clearly a Windows port. Not a big factor since there's a web-browser interface. Indexing needs some kind of feedback. The app took 60-90% of my CPU for nearly 2 hours, presumably indexing; in principle I don't have a problem with that (I expect indexing to take time), but I need to know what the progress is, and that there is progress. I also need to know how big the index is. Without those indicators that this is actually working I shut the program down and trashed it after 2 hr. I didn't test the search function.