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December 13, 2005
From search to found
I've been keeping an eye on an application that Nat Friedman has been developing for Linux that he calls "Dashboard". The concept is simple, yet extremely effective. The program keeps an eye on what it is that you're doing and brings up relevant information from your computer: e-mail, web sites, Word/Excel documents, messenger clients ... etc. The idea of dashboard, and programs like it, is that you shouldn't have to search for content on your computer. Instead, the content is displayed for you in real time while your typing it or surfing something about it.
Enter a similar application for Windows called Watson (a take off the Mac search tool Sherlock perhaps?). The concept is pretty much the same as Nat's Dashboard, except this is for Windows operating systems and it isn't exactly freeware. There's a ad-driven version and a professional version to get rid of them thar ads.
I love this concept of computing, and the thought of computers going towards real time content searching is a great idea that I wish Microsoft could incorporate freely into Windows today. Oh, wait ... they're *working* on something similar? If this is something that was supposed to be in Vista, it might just be yet another piece of "vaporware" that's been promised and may not even see the light of day.
Bleh ... I guess we can all dream, can't we?
~out...
Posted by ed at December 13, 2005 09:57 PM
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