{"id":194,"date":"2005-04-13T19:38:23","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T00:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2005-12-03T08:52:07","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T15:52:07","slug":"search-tool-daves-quick-search-deskbar-free-software-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2005\/search-tool-daves-quick-search-deskbar-free-software-review.html","title":{"rendered":"Search tool &#8211; Dave&#8217;s Quick Search DeskBar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Bau, a software engineer and former Microsoft employee from Pennsylvania USA is the author of one of my favourite pieces of free software. &nbsp;If you use Windows and spend any amount of time looking for information on the internet, this may become one of your favourites too. &nbsp;David is the creator of the aptly named, <b>Dave&#8217;s Quick Search DeskBar<\/b>. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s what it looks like:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/searchbar.gif\" width=\"473\" height=\"80\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dave's Quick Search DeskBar\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">As you can see, this is a little box that sits beside your Start button on your Windows desktop. &nbsp;When you&#8217;re not doing anything, it just shows the date and time. &nbsp;But when you&#8217;re ready to search, you type in what you want to look for. &nbsp;Then, you press Enter and your browser automatically searches Google for that search term. &nbsp;Handy, but that is only the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>There is a handy menu that can open up after you type in your term. &nbsp;That menu allows you to search other things.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"6\" width=\"300\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/deskbar.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"322\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DeskBar 2\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p> &nbsp;Search with Yahoo!. &nbsp;Check stock quotes. &nbsp;Search news, weather reports, movie reviews, eBay, amazon, WalMart, encyclopedias, dictionaries, medical articles and comic strips. &nbsp;Do currency conversions, find distances, read tips to tweak Windows&#8230;.the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n<p>One of the simplest things that I personally use is simply going to a web page. &nbsp;Just type in the URL and press enter. &nbsp;You can also type in a time and a message, and an alarm will sound at the appropriate time.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s impossible to list all the things this bar does. &nbsp;On the right there you can see a search for recipes. &nbsp;I forgot to mention that one, and a few gazillion others. &nbsp;But essentially, it allows you a lightning quick way to find key information on the internet, whatever that information may be, without loading a bunch of pages in between that you don&#8217;t need.<\/p>\n<p>You download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dqsd.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave&#8217;s Quick Search DeskBar<\/a> from this link. &nbsp;Note that there is currently a minor glitch when you try to use this program in Windows XP. &nbsp;Don&#8217;t panic &#8211; 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