Hi all, I'm the kind of person who keeps loads of files and likes to know how to find them again. To this end I bought Leap several years back ( http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/ ) which is a sort of souped up Finder in some ways. I wasn't really happy with it, despite liking many of its concepts and stopped using it in the end. Several months ago, after looking around at available apps, decided to buy Eagle Filer ( http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/ ). I liked the idea of the app but found it quite sluggish in use, especially when scrolling the results list and I became less enthusiastic with each passing week.
My reason for all this is because I've just spent some time with a trial of Houdahspot ( http://www.houdah.com/houdahSpot/ ) and I'm a convert and wanted to pass on the good news. You can download a free trial and see for yourself but basically, you search on the fly or create search documents which you can save if you want for later recall. It requires no file changes or rearrangement or indexing as it uses your current Spotlight index. You can use it as easily as Apple's Spotlight (with a shortcut) which looks just like the new Yosemite search box but the results look very different. It allows the creation of searches as complex as you could ever want or as simple as typing a few words in a box! It has listings, quick look and info panes and is full of very well thought out touches that make it clear that much thought has gone into it. Not only that, but it's lightning fast in the searching and scrolling department, leaving Eagle Filer in the dust in that respect. And only $29. That's it. As they say, I have no connection with the company, just that I thought it was so brilliant I wanted to spread the love, having never heard of it until a couple of days ago. And the icon is fun! :-) Cheers, Stephen We are Costa of Borg. We will add your vibrancy and distinctiveness to our own. Your town and your customers will service us. Resistance is futile. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
