A new version of Retriever has been made available by its developer, Thomas Milius, which benefits from a number of new features. The software offers a method of locating documents based on search terms or other criteria, but does so by building up an initial cache of data about your files, with the specific information varying based on their type.
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Retriever – a new application for indexing, searching files
Thomas Milius has just released another new commercial application, called Retriever. The purpose of the application is, on the surface, quite simple – it provides a method of locating documents based on a number of criteria – but it’s a little more than just another search tool.
Read MoreRemote calendar and address synchronisation
A new commercial offering from Thomas Milius is CaxDAV, which can be used to synchronise calendars and addresses between local clients and servers that support the CalDAV/CardDAV protocols.
Read MoreFile access control module released
Combating what Germans apparently call ‘Sommerloch’ and he believes translates as ‘Silly Season’, Thomas Milius has been browsing an archive of old software he’d written, and an interesting find has prompted a new release.
Read MoreServe up some SSI soup
Web pages can be very simple, containing a little mark-up that helps inform the software receiving and rendering the page a little bit about its content and how it should be presented, ideally with the help of cascading style sheets (CSS) to provide styling information. However, sometimes that simplicity isn’t enough, and a web page might need to refer to external resources. There are a number of ways this can be done, and one is by using Server Side Includes (SSI). When a page is being passed from the server…
Read MoreDeskWatcher updated to version 0.08
The screen sharing application DeskWatcher, released late last year by Thomas Milius through Stader Softwareentwicklung GmbH (English version) has seen an update, and is now at version 0.08.
Read MoreExtdVars module from Thomas Milius
Thomas Milius has released a new module designed to provide some extended system variable facilities. System variables, of course, are special variables used by the operating system to store information about the system, such as some settings, and by applications for similar purposes.
Read MoreHistorical document retrieval arrives with HistoryFS
Thomas Milius has released a new image filing system called HistoryFS that implements a simple document management system. At its most basic level what Thomas’ software does is retain previous copies of a file whenever a new version is saved (or the file is deleted).
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