Copernic Desktop Search 1.5 beta available

By James Kendrick | Wednesday, February 23, 2005 | 3:25 PM CT | 7 comments |

Copernic has long been my favorite desktop search and the new beta version 1.5 that has just been released further cements that position.  There are so many new features that I will list them all after the jump but of significance for Thunderbird users Copernic will now search Thunderbird emails, contacts, and attachments.

(via The Office Weblog)

New Features:

  • Mozilla Thunderbird email search
    • Indexing of emails, attachments and contacts from Thunderbird 1.0 or later
  • Eudora email search
    • Indexing of emails and attachments from Eudora 5.0 or later
  • Smart indexing of network drives
    • Full support for indexing network folders
    • Intelligent detection of network connection availability
  • Improved metadata indexing for pictures, music and videos
    • Search within JPEG picture comments (using EXIF metadata)
    • Search iTunes songs by artist, album, etc.
    • Metadata indexing for QuickTime movies and OGG audio files
  • New information pane listing additional categories with matching results
    • One-click access to related results from other categories
    • Display of match count per category
  • Buttons to instantly seek to highlighted search terms
    • New word-find buttons allowing to jump from one keyword occurrence to the other within document previews
  • Previewing of found pictures, music, videos and contacts
    • Filmstrip viewing mode for pictures
    • Embedded player for audio and video files
    • New preview pane for contacts
  • Improved usability
    • Added "Print" and "Delete" commands for Outlook emails
    • New filter to narrow picture searches by size (small, medium, large)
    • Improved option tab for managing custom file extensions to index
    • Customizable colors for search term highlighting
    • Numerous user interface improvements (redesigned preview panes, redesigned Web search toolbar, new keyboard shortcuts, etc.)
  • API for adding custom file indexers
    • New COM API allowing third-party developers to create plug-ins enabling new file type indexing (view PDF documentation)

Other Improvements/Changes:

  • 20 file types have been added to the default list of types to index
  • Wildcards can now be used to add custom file extensions to index

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