X1 Search

That is for you to decide. If you're like me you think its great to have a 120Gb hard drive so you can store anything and everything on your computer. The problem is trying to find it when you need it.X1 Search is a lightning quick and very powerful indexing and search utility for your computer. Using X1 Search you can find emails, file attachments, files and contacts as fast as you can type- literally.X1 Search is capable of finding and displaying files from Generic Text, DOS Word Processors, International Word Processors, Windows Word Processors, Macintosh Word Processors, Spreadsheet Formats, Database Formats, Presentation Formats, Graphic Formats, Compressed Formats and more.Its nice that hard drive space is so cheap, but it doesn't help much to have the history of the world on file in no particular order and no logical means of locating the data or information when the need arises.

I have created folders within folders in Outlook to "organize" my email messages so I can refer back to them later. But, when the situation comes up it takes me days, if not hours, to sift through the hundreds and thousands of messages and find what I am looking for.

All of this cheap storage space is somewhat of a double-edged sword. That is until I started using X1 Search. After doing an initial indexing of your computer X1 can find any message, file or contact as fast as you can type the search terms.

Not only can it find what you are looking for as fast as you can think of it, but the viewer pane is capable of displaying it using the proper formatting and style of the source program- Word documents look like Word documents and Excel spreadsheets look like Excel spreadsheets. And if the viewer pane isn't enough, X1 can launch the source application with a click of the mouse as well.

At face value this is not a "security" product, but in reality it has potential as a forensic investigation tool as well. Being able to search entire hard drives in the blink of an eye for key words or terms might help evidence gathering. X1 will not only find files and data related to the search term(s), but it will highlight the search term(s) within the file to help you pinpoint where they occur.

This is an amazing product in my opinion and a tool that I can't live without now that I have it. The product is normally $99 USD, but from now through the end of March you can get it for 50% off by clicking on this link: X1 50% Special- Expires 3/31/2004. After March 31, 2004 you can purchase the product at full price here: X1 Search.