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Branding Iron

Branding Iron - 1.0

associate Spotlight keywords to files

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Current Version: 1.0
Release Date: 2006-01-31
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 926
Downloads (all versions): 1,403

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Product Description:

Spotlight is nice to search by keywords, but doesn't let you associate arbitrary keywords to your files. With Branding Iron, you can mark your files and get the most out of Spotlight and Smart Folders. Imagine you want to label a dozen of files as belonging to "Project Brinkman". The traditional way to organize them is to put them in a folder called Project Brinkman But now, with Branding Iron and Spotlight, you can just mark them, store them in whatever folder or hard disk (for example, by category : Accounting, Budget, Engineering, Artworks, ...) and then create a Smart Folder called "Project Brinkman". Automagically, your files will be here. You can move them, modify them, rename them. They will be marked forever.

What's new in this version:

  • Discontinued.
  • Re-released as freeware including source code.
  • Anybody can continue developing it.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4

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Branding Iron Usage TipAlternatively ... - Version: 1.0, 2/19/2008 12:00AM PST

roro01
Download BatchSpot'em - it enables you to add your own Spotlight keywords to a batch of Finder items.
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Branding Iron ReviewUmm.. why not just use Automator? - Version: 1.0 beta, 5/19/2005 10:05AM PST

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Joe_Block_590
You can do this in Automator easily. Read http://www.adamrice.org/eponymous/2005/05/add_spotlight_t.html for a howto.
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Branding Iron Reviewnah - Version: 1.0 beta, 5/19/2005 01:55AM PST

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harsher
As it is now, it is actually pretty useless. Because:
It doesn't allow more than one keyword per file!
It replaces any existing comments!!
It doesn't look inside folders to add recursively.

Obviously the developer hasn't played much with Tiger yet, or he/she wouldn't claim that there is no other way.
The solution is already there in Tiger. Just add these 3 actions in Automator:
1- Get Selected Finder Items + 2- Get Folder Contents + 3- Add Spotlight Comments to Finder Items

It will add as many keywords as you want, with an option to preserve existing keywords, and recursively, no matter how deep the folders are.

And you can compile it as an app or a contextual menu item and voila.
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