I don't think it would be too common to use Google desktop on a public computer. Most public computers wouldn't have Desktop search installed and since it is designed to search what is on the computer on which it is installed, it is unlikely that the personal files you are looking for will be found on a public computer. What might be a problem, if I am understanding this correctly, is that someone else could use Google Desktop on a public computer to find my e-mail messages even after I have logged off. That seems like a warning against accessing your e-mail from a public computer if you are concerned with someone finding and reading your messages with Google Desktop after you have logged off. It might be worth your while to determine if Google Desktop is installed on the public computer you are using as your e-mails could be stored in the Google Desktop index and not be deleted when you log off. However, if Google Desktop is not installed on the public computer, it shouldn't be a problem. I am grateful to know this (I do sometimes read my e-mail on public computers) but that isn't going to stop me from enjoying Google Desktop's convenience on my own private computer.
Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of Psychology Box 3055 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (479)524-7295 http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman "Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart." - Ulysses Everett McGill From: Michael Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 6:26 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Google desktop search (was why psychology is hard) Thanks Tim. The security issues don't sound encouraging, I will have to check with IT if they recommend against it. But with Vista's search broken (no wonder more and more people are starting to hate windows--sorry, anecdotal) one is up the proverbial creek if you need to find where you placed that...that...file! --Mike --- On Wed, 8/27/08, Shearon, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Shearon, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [tips] Google desktop search (was why psychology is hard) To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 1:06 PM Miahael- Vista- You mean Mahogany? :) Remember that folks like it if they rename it!! Thanks for confirming my own experience with its search "function". But, re: Google desk search, all's not good news. Google desktop search on a public computer can be used to search email if it is accessed through the web and you can by-pass the passwords and log-ons (you do have to look beyond the search results but it's accessible if you dig a bit)! Do be careful to only use it on your own private computer is the advice I've been seeing- Also, that should include post-log off and be especially powerful to anyone with a higher "level of security" in their account. To me that's not a good thing. (That's not it's only non-redeeming security issue/feature: C.f., http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/vpn/2004/1115vpn1.html - you may have to bypass an ad!) Tim _______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Psychology The College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker -----Original Message----- From: Michael Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 8/27/2008 11:07 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Google desktop search (was why psychology is hard) Does the Google desktop search work for Vista? I know that the Vista search is totally useless, and actually doesn't work. --Mike --- On Wed, 8/27/08, David Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: David Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [tips] Google desktop search (was why psychology is hard) To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 9:51 AM On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, beth benoit went: > Annette and others, > Do all of you know about "Google Desktop Search"? It's an amazing > little search program you leave on your desktop that opens a little > box where you type in any word you recall from a document or even > email you're searching for, and it finds it on any item on your > computer that uses that word or phrase. Seconded. For Windows, Google Desktop is invaluable. If you're on a Mac, you've already got the extremely fast and powerful Spotlight search, but there's a disadvantage: Spotlight does NOT show your search results with contextual snippets of surrounding text, the way Google does. The cure for that is SpotInside--it's an app that harnesses Spotlight's searching ability, but presents the results in a more Google-like fashion: <http://www.oneriver.jp/SpotInside/index_e.html> There's also Google Desktop for Mac, but I've found that it slows down the system, presumably because you've got Google and Spotlight each simultaneously maintaining an index of your stuff. And finally, also for Mac, there's SpeedSearch <http://www.smartcache.net/speedsearch/index.html>, which finds phrases more reliably than Spotlight does, and doesn't rely on an index. --David Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
