POPsearch / News: Recent posts

It's been over four months since the last POPsearch release. During this time I took a step back and tried to determine the future direction of POPsearch. Some of the things that were completed:

POPsearch should be easy to use. One command starts the user interface and performs the indexing, not the two step process that exists today, where you have to index everything before it can be searched. With the new POPsearch, you can search as the data is being indexed.... read more

If your computer maintains a connection to the Internet, you can now access your POPsearch data remotely from any computer that has a web browser.

This release also includes browser support for Opera and
Explorer.

More information on POPsearch features can be found at
http://www.popsearch.net

Password security is now enforced with this release. Security was added to prevent unauthorized access to your data. While
the current security isn't fool proof, it's a start. In the future I
hope to tighten up the security with the addition of secure
sockets.

Although a rebuild of everything isn't necessary, it's
recommended if your system starts producing strange results.

It's been my experience that Linux distributions that use the
clone command were causing the indexing process to lock up
under certain conditions. I feel like this has also been fixed in
this release. So people who tried to use some of the earlier
versions of POPsearch, with no success, may have good
results from this version.... read more

Version 0.1.0 is now available.

It's been a tough couple of months worth of coding and testing since the last release. But I hope it's worth it, as this release contains many improvements over the last version. This release includes:

A major database redesign was done to enhance performace and scalability for users that index a large amount of data. With this release, all users will have to delete their databases and index everything from scratch.... read more

POPsearch is a personal search engine that is
designed to help you easily find information on your
computer.

With POPsearch, you can easily index your entire
collection of email messages and files. This
collection can then be searched from any type of
web browser. POPsearch currently supports the
following types of data:

* Ascii text
* FrameMaker documents
* LaTeX documents
* Microsoft DBX mailboxes
* Microsoft MBX mailboxes
* Microsoft PST mailboxes
* Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
* Microsoft Word documents
* PDF documents
* Postscript documents
* RTF documents
* Troff files
* WordPerfect documents... read more