By spectacular accident today, both my keyboard and mouse died for some damned reason I still can’t figure out. Maybe it was the KVM switch? Maybe it was the tea that spilt over my desk and slowly dripped onto said switch? In any case, I went out to buy a new keyboard and mouse since a headless desktop PC is effectively useless. While out shopping I picked up a new DVD drive to complement my other one that no longer plays DVD right. I got Nero Essentials 7 with it. I did a full install ( since I do have the drive space).
And lo and behold a desktop search box appears in my taskbar. Its called Nero Scout. I thought this was interesting since the Desktop Search space has already got Microsoft and Google bumping heads.
According to the Nero Website:
Nero Scout is a unique media database application that provides instant access to your media files from any Nero application, Windows Explorer, and many standard Windows applications.
Hmm… a media database???Right.
Now I can’t vouch for either of the the above mention desktop search programs since I haven’t used any of them yet (I do have Desktop Search installed on Windows home Server and Scout is still indexing), but this looks interesting. If it goes wrong, Scout has the potential to get really irritating.
Here’s hoping it goes right….
Random Musings 