So I went ahead and cancelled my myspace account yesterday. After getting yet another porn related friend request decided I might as well just kill the account. Plus with everybody I know on facebook and with Google looking to bring new stuff into the social network game, why should I keep open an account on what I consider an abomination of web development. Glad to rid of that nasty place from the list of sites I hold accounts with.
So I tried Google Desktop for Mac that was just recently released, beta of course. It’s not too bad, didn’t take seriously long to index either. Not sure it’s any faster than Spotlight. I didn’t really like the lack of grouping that I like in Spotlight results, mail messages grouped together etc. The double-tap-command shortcut is an interesting idea too, and it worked quite well and was kinda cool to browse results in the web page view with pagination. Though when in that view it would open various things within the browser it seems, or at least mail messages, actually not sure about other files. Of course not surprising since the browser probably will open whatever it deems appropriate since it’s just another web page really. I ended up uninstalling it just because it didn’t quite jive with me, I’m not a huge Spotlight use but I still prefer it.
I don’t know if the cause of this extreme increase in memory consumption is from trying out Google Desktop for Mac or not, but I’ve never seen mds at the top of the list of memory usage before, usually it’s OmniWeb after a few days. Anyway, I only made the connection to Google Desktop due to the fact that it uses some spotlight related stuff, like the privacy list and the importers I believe. So since I recently was playing with it I thought there might be a connection. I found one other person noticed same exact thing and they had installed Google Desktop.
This is easy to fix though, and unfortunately I already uninstalled Google Desktop to verify if it climbs up from use at all, just choosing quit process in Activity Monitor does the trick, no need to choose Force Quit. It will come back right after with consumption of probably < 5MB.
I’d recommend trying it out for anybody interested, you might want to check your mds process after though and give it a swift quit to get it’s memory usage down again though after. That is if you notice this happen at all and if it’s at all connected to Google Desktop.
I just played with “Google Calendar”:http://calendar.google.com and I like it quite a bit. It’s simple to add events like in “Apple’s iCal”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/ and has some pretty cool sharing and invitation features. You can subscribe via the iCalendar(ics) standard too, read-only it looks like. It would be awesome if you could edit & view from a calendar app like iCal though. But so far impression is very good.