![]() ![]() Tembo is as close to fun as I’ve had using Spotlight. Although it’s possible to do most of this in Spotlight without Tembo, it’s neither easy nor fun. For example, you can filter messages by subject, sender, and recipient documents by file type (Alias, Word, Pages, Rich Text, Zip, and so on) images by type and resolution PDFs by author Safari bookmarks by type (bookmark or history item) and domain music by file type and artist video by file type and codec-you get the picture. But the most useful feature for me is that, in either view, you can use new filtering options to further whittle down your search results to find exactly what you’re looking foor. For starters, you can view results in icon view or list view, with list view adding the capability to sort by name, date modified, or size. It appears that you are running an older version of Mac OS X. Registered users can unlock HoudahSpot using their license file or activation code. ![]() If this is all Tembo did, it would essentially be “Tiger’s Spotlight in Snow Leopard.” But click the arrow icon next to a group, and you discover the program’s hidden power: many more options for sorting and filtering just that group of search results. Download the latest version of HoudahSpot. And, of course, double-click an item to open it. Select an item and press Spacebar and you get a standard Quick Look preview of the item. Right-click (Control-click) on a result and you get options to open the item in its default program, open it in another program, reveal it in the Finder, or get information (using the Finder’s Get Info feature) on it. Select a result and you can see, at the bottom of the window, the full path to that item. Tembo displays the top ten results for each type, and you can choose, in Tembo’s preferences, the order in which these groups appear you can also disable particular types from appearing in search results. As in Tiger, results are grouped by type: Applications, Documents, Folders (yes, Tembo displays matching folders), messages (e-mail and iChat logs), images, PDFs, Safari bookmarks, movies, music, and so on. But unlike Spotlight in Snow Leopard, which gives you a single-and often overwhelming-list of files with only a couple filtering options, Tembo’s results are both more flexible and easier to use. Launch Tembo and enter your search term(s), and in a few seconds, the window fills with the results of your search. (You can download the latest pre-release version from Brewery.) The developer says Tembo is designed to make finding your data as easy as possible, and in my early testing, it certainly offers improvements over Snow Leopard’s built-in search interface. Houdah Software recently announced a public beta of a new utility, Tembo, which in many ways mimics the Spotlight-search-results window you’d find in Tiger. HoudahSpot builds upon Spotlight, which comes pre-installed with macOS.An appealing alternative-especially for those who cut their teeth on Spotlight way back in Tiger (OS X 10.4)-comes from the developer of HoudahSpot. HoudahSpot gives you the tools to get manageable search results from even the most extensive collection of files: an easy-to-use search criteria editor, customizable results displays, search templates, a preview of text matches, and more.
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