Another BlogZot: HoudaSpot

You may safely ignore the following if you're not into OS X software (Tiger specific in this case). There is another BlogZot going on, this time about HoudaSpot. I just gave it a try, and here are my thoughts, in the MacZot given format.

My review of HoudahSpot as seen on MacZOT.com

HoudaSpot is a graphical tool that let you access the full power of the command line spotlight service (where you can specify complex queries, containing "and", "or", and "not" logical operators). Even though it's not as pretty as a Finder "Saved Search" (which I've just started using along with spotlight comments), being able to have any kind of boolean combination is very helpful. Searches can be saved (as templates, to be filled later, or as live searches), and one really nice thing is that they are documents that can be exchanged with other HoudaSpot users.

The search result window provides a lot of information and basically let you do things you would be able to do using the finder (move the file to trash, rename it, etc ...)

I would like to see a better Finder integration, for instance, by having HoudaSpot saved searches in the sidebar. But I see myself using this more and more as I'm starting to tag more files.

NOTE: If you’re seeing this on June 16, 2006 head over to MacZOT, you might be able to get a Free copy of HoudahSpot

Search easily in Tiger, Mac OS X, with HoudahSpot