Google Desktop Search
Bless their little cotton socks... Google have released a beta version of a Desktop Search tool... it indexes your hard-drive in the same way Google indexes the internet. It's fantastic - no more spending ten minutes whiles Microsoft Find churns through your files... instead, you type in your search (after a relatively brief indexing period) and it gives you all the matching documents. Future versions of the tool promise more file formats supported - PDF would be a big hit, I think. I hate Adobe Acrobat with a flaming passion.
In other news, Sid Meier's Pirates! has been released. I loved the original when I was a youngster... my uncle and I spent many hours comparing our progress. This version is - well, it's okay. It's pretty addictive, but I honestly can't tell you why. It suffers from 'subgame syndrome'... there are so many activities that they all have to be pretty shallow, and the whole suffers as a result. There's a turn based strategy game when you attack cities, a real time strategy game when you attack ships, and a DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION game when you go ballroom dancing[1]. I'd advise people to give it a try, but it doesn't have any of the charm of the original.
[1] Yeah, ballroom dancing. What the fuck?
In other news, Sid Meier's Pirates! has been released. I loved the original when I was a youngster... my uncle and I spent many hours comparing our progress. This version is - well, it's okay. It's pretty addictive, but I honestly can't tell you why. It suffers from 'subgame syndrome'... there are so many activities that they all have to be pretty shallow, and the whole suffers as a result. There's a turn based strategy game when you attack cities, a real time strategy game when you attack ships, and a DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION game when you go ballroom dancing[1]. I'd advise people to give it a try, but it doesn't have any of the charm of the original.
[1] Yeah, ballroom dancing. What the fuck?
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