Comments on: SpotInside: A Solid Spotlight Alternative

By: Mahlsdorfer Ami

Mahlsdorfer Ami — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:50:19 +0000

Thank you — I’m sold!

By: Pierre Bernard

Pierre Bernard — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:37:54 +0000

In HoudahSpot this feature is called “Text Preview”. You may find it in the “Windows” menu

By: Mahlsdorfer Ami

Mahlsdorfer Ami — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:30:04 +0000

Actually, IMO the best feature of Spotinside is that it automatically displays previews of the found documents with the hits highlighted, like Copernic or X1 in Windows. I’m evaluating HoudahSpot and I haven’t found a way to make it do that. Am I overlooking something? Once HoudahSpot does that, you will have the perfect Spotlight front-end, sir. :-)

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By: Pierre Bernard

Pierre Bernard — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:40:32 +0000

Tooting my own horn: do check out HoudahSpot. It has all of the features SpotInside has and then some: unlimited criteria, boolean operators, unlimited columns, templates, preferred template,…

By: invinciblegavin

invinciblegavin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:51:02 +0000

Spotlight is a very powerful search tool, and does many of the thing you say it does. Path information is revealed in a tooltip by resting your cursor above the item in the results list. Also, search results can be refund easily. For example, if I was searching for an email message cotaining a phrase I would key in: kind:email “phrase text”. I could then narrow my result by adding date:1/1/2009-31/1/2009.

Spotlight is great when you know how to use it.

By: Charles Moore

Charles Moore — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:45:39 +0000

Yes, Spotlight’s pathname on mouseover feature can be useful, but Spotinside gives you the path info along with created and modified dates and the file size all in the main info window for every result showing simultaneously.

Not sure what the reader’s point is about find-as-you-type. All I said about that is that I don’t like it., and prefer Spotinside’s polite waiting until I give it the go-ahead.

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:37:09 +0000

Spotlight is just always hit-or-miss for me…which ultimately means I can’t trust it so I end up not using it very often.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:40:13 +0000

hear hear re the search as you type – i’ve got something like 2tb of data for tiger to sift through and it’s slow on a dual xeon. Useful but slow

at home i use a macbook running leopard and although speedier, the results display is very lacking i find it very hard to fine tune the results to my needs

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:54:44 +0000

Errr….what? Since you aren’t reading our blog anymore, I doubt you’ll actually see my response, but what are you saying we censored? We delete comments that are vulgar/trolling/hateful, but that’s it. Sometimes comments get (incorrectly) caught by our spam filters, but like I said, we don’t censor comments.

By: Dave M.

Dave M. — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:28:08 +0000

It’s a shame you guys sensor comments here. I guess I’m not surprised with all the bad facts in the posts on this sites. I mean two posts in a row with facts that are just totally wrong… Ah well. One less blog to read.

By: CoSTa

CoSTa — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:19:10 +0000

Leap – worth every penny. Try it and you’ll be amazed how actually good it is.

By: co

co — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:42:45 +0000

wrt to path in spotlight, you can just point to the result and the path will show up…i am sure u know this already but just want to pt that out…

By: max

max — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:55:27 +0000

You can also look into FileBuddy. A long-time application that offers searches by file name and many other criteria.

Also, Path Finder can search by spotlight or by file.

By: Pitman

Pitman — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:38:05 +0000

Thanks for the great tip. I just downloaded it and it works nicely.