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Product Description:
SpotLook is a graphical user interface to Mac OS X Spotlight desktop search engine.
SpotLook uses "tracks". Tracks are timelines showing some kind of results, according to their date.
You can use the default tracks or define your own, based on the files UTIs.
Tracks also have a search scope and an attribute to search in (file name, text content or keywords).
You can select some items in each track and quicklook, open or reveal in Finder the items you really want!
Please note that this is an open-source project. Your contributions are certainly welcome.
For now, SpotLook is merely 2000 lines of Objective-C code.
Sorry Tiger users, SpotLook is Leopard only.
SpotLook uses "tracks". Tracks are timelines showing some kind of results, according to their date.
You can use the default tracks or define your own, based on the files UTIs.
Tracks also have a search scope and an attribute to search in (file name, text content or keywords).
You can select some items in each track and quicklook, open or reveal in Finder the items you really want!
Please note that this is an open-source project. Your contributions are certainly welcome.
For now, SpotLook is merely 2000 lines of Objective-C code.
Sorry Tiger users, SpotLook is Leopard only.
What's new in this version:
- fixed a bug appeared in Mac OS X 10.5.3 that prevented the tracks from loading
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.0
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS Classic
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Sorry, but gone. - Version: 1.3.1, 7/26/2008 11:56AM PST
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versiontracker2007
I relaunched it, this time it let me click a button for the "tracks" message. Fine.
I clicked through the "track groups", the "tracks", typed something in the search field, scrubbed the date thingy around. Didn't get any files or results listed, and I know I have Word files called and containing the name "resume" and images named and tagged with "birthday". Nada. No results, no nothing.
Tried to read the doco, but it immediately started in on this "tracks" thing but didn't explain what they are. BTW, don't explain it to me here, I'm not asking - I don't care anymore, because I binned it.
It might be powerful and clever, but it was completely unintuitive and didn't provide any satisfaction.
Spotlight in Leopard annoys me. I want the old Tiger Spotlight panel back - I hate having it always defaulting back to searching the entire computer for contents (seriously, not even "filename" is the default - only "contents"), and showing them all crammed in together in a faked-up Finder window, in icon view, with absolutely bare minimum of spacing, where you can't easily see any filename, and you can't separate them into file type groups like you get in the Spotlight menu and used to get in Tiger, and changing the view to List makes all your windows List view.
I was hoping SpotLook might give me back some of what I want, but it was not of any use to me at all, even less so than Leopard Spotlight.