SCO0090 - Spotless & HoudahSpot - Enhance Spotlight

Spotlight - The search technology launched as part of OSX Tiger is great but..... well, really, it could be better! The simplistic user interface gives rise to immense frustration when trying to construct more complex queries to search through your hundreds if not thousands of files. Also, what is really going on "under the hood"? How do you know which volume is indexed, what about if you need to recreate a damaged or incomplete index?

Well this weeks show addresses some of the failings in Spotlight by introducing you to two applications to help you get the most out of Spotlight.


Spotless - By fixamac is a great utility for managing Spotlight and the indexes it creates. You can enable or disable spotlight for individual volumes, re-create indexes, re-create your spotlight index directories and even switch spotlight on or off.





HoudahSpot - By Houdahsoft Software extends Spotlight in ways you could only previously dream of! Houdahspot is the front end for Spotlight that takes creating search queries to the next level. A richly featured search form together with drag and drop functionality, templates, integral browsing and previewing make Houdahspot the interface that Spotlight should have had!

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