utility

The Russian capital experiences blackouts throughout the city, and created an incredible mess.

Copernic, considered one of the pioneers of desktop search, has announced an update to their utility, taking CDS up to version 1.5.

With desktop search being one of the remaining frontiers for the search engine industry, there is competition to see who can develop an effective means of searching contents on a computer. Recently, a few software packages have upped the ante considerably. Copernic, Blinkx, and the announcement of Mac's Spotlight are a few of the better-developed solutions.

Citing a need for a search utility that performs "crawling, indexing, ranking and displaying", the developers at KDE have announced their intentions of including a desktop search utility when the newest version of KDE is released. The reason for the creation of such a utility comes from the fact that the developers of KDE believe it's easier to search for files on the Internet than it is to do so on home computers.

One of the tools included with Windows XP is the System Configuration Utility, a diagnostic program that automates routine troubleshooting tasks. This is the same tool that Microsoft Technical Support engineers will use when walking you through a system with problems. Giving it a look might save you a great deal of time and effort when attempting to solve system issues.