{"id":715,"date":"2004-10-25T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/02\/10-25-04\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T21:09:32","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T05:09:32","slug":"google-desktop-kicks-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/25\/google-desktop-kicks-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Desktop Kicks Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old way of looking up old data<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Double-click Windows Search icon\n<\/li>\n<li>    Wait 8 seconds\n<\/li>\n<li>    Type the text I&#8217;m looking for, IE: &#8220;xmas 04&#8221; (My Christmas shopping list)\n<\/li>\n<li>    Wait 3 seconds\n<\/li>\n<li>    Double-click &#8216;xmas 04.txt&#8217; to start Notepad\n<\/li>\n<li>    Wait 2 seconds\n<\/li>\n<li>    View document\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Way<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In IE or Firefox, click on bookmark for Google Desktop\n<\/li>\n<li>    Type the text I&#8217;m looking for\n<\/li>\n<li>    Click the cache-link\n<\/li>\n<li>    Wait 1\/2 second\n<\/li>\n<li>    View document\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Time Saved: 12.5 seconds. I do this search 5-20 times per day.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nOld way of looking up archived emails<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open Outlook\n<\/li>\n<li>    Wait 30 seconds\n<\/li>\n<li>    Hit Ctrl-Shift-F.\n<\/li>\n<li>    Type in search criterion\n<\/li>\n<li>    Wait 45 seconds\n<\/li>\n<li>    view results\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Way<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click on bookmark for Google Desktop\n<\/li>\n<li>    Type in the search criterion\n<\/li>\n<li>    wait 1\/2 second\n<\/li>\n<li>    View email\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>I often leave Outlook running, so I&#8217;ll just say I&#8217;ve saved 44.5 seconds. I do this search 2-10 times per day.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old way of looking up old data Double-click Windows Search icon Wait 8 seconds Type the text I&#8217;m looking for, IE: &#8220;xmas 04&#8221; (My Christmas shopping list) Wait 3 seconds Double-click &#8216;xmas 04.txt&#8217; to start Notepad Wait 2 seconds View document New Way In IE or Firefox, click on bookmark for Google Desktop Type the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}