Copernic Mobile: desktop search for your PC from a mobile
Many folks swear by Copernic’s Desktop Search application and it’s been around at least as long (if not longer) than either Google’s or Microsoft’s desktop search products. Somehow, I’ve missed the fact that Copernic offers a mobile client; not an app to search for information on your mobile device, but a mobile client that can remotely search your desktop PC for information. The only reason I caught wind of the product was that they just announced an iPhone-friendly version of the application.
Looks like a great way to easily search for and retrieve information when you’re out and about, provided that you left your PC powered on. The mobile client is now in its second beta, so it’s not quite ready for prime time. You’ll also need either Windows Desktop Search or Copernic Desktop Search installed on your PC. There’s a list of FAQs on the mobile service right here, so check ‘em out if this sounds as useful to you as it does to me.
(via Mobile Whack)
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I’m one of those who swears by Copernic. I’ve been using it for several years. I recently installed WDS because it’s the only one that completely indexes everything in Outlook (not just email), and the only one that indexes Onenote. I wanted to see how it compared to Copernic.
It didn’t do well. It never seemed to find what I was looking for. So, I set WDS only to index Outlook and Onenote (so I can search from within each application) and I use Copernic to index everything and for search outside Outlook and Onenote. It has worked well, so far. I haven’t noticed a performance drag from having two search indexers running.
I can see where this new mobile app could be useful. It’ll be interesting to see how well it works “in the wild.”
If you’re partial to Google Desktop Search, you can do that with Avvenu (www.avvenu.com) installed on your PC and use any browser, including mobile browsers to browse, search and download from your desktop remotely.
Avvenu does not search e-mails in GDS