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A few minutes of Spotlight search, courtesy of HoudahSpot, and I was able to quote chapter, verse and year to answer a question from a former colleague. Only last night I needed to huck out some information from old files, going right back to the early 1990s. That made me consider why privacy is now more important than access. I looked back a little last week, in a throwaway line: fifteen years ago, in 2006, when Spotlight arrived on our Macs “we were all more concerned with finding our documents than preventing others from reading their contents”. Looking back may not seem an Apple thing, but it’s a great advantage to be a Janus.

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We thank our loyal customers for the feedback that helped shape HoudahSpot into an irreplaceable tool for many Mac users.I’m no interior designer, and have a lifelong hatred for open-plan offices anyway, but there’s one feature that I’m sure Apple’s headquarters still needs: at each level, at least one working Mac from each five year period since 1984.

Looking back, we are very proud of how much HoudahSpot has evolved over the past 15 years. This layout makes it much easier to explore search results and progressively refine searches until results distill down to a manageable size. To the right, HoudahSpot even finds room to show file information or previews. Today, HoudahSpot presents search results next to search criteria. HoudahSpot today: Search Criteria, Results & Preview in the same window Once the search was started, search criteria had to be hidden to make room to display results. The HoudahSpot window had space only to show search criteria. HoudahSpot was developed on an iBook with a screen resolution of just 800×600 pixels. The first version of HoudahSpot had to be very economical with screen real estate. HoudahSpot, 15 years ago: Search criteria on the front side of the window, results on the flip side As technology advanced, HoudahSpot has always managed to keep frequently used files at users’ fingertips and hard-to-find files within easy reach. Over the years, HoudahSpot had to outdo itself over and again to keep ever-growing file collection in check. In those years, much has changed, but our need to find the files and information we rely on. (…) you can use it to easily create complex saved searches that would be very complicated to construct (if possible at all) in the Finder.” ( Macworld, )įifteen years later, these are still the core strengths of HoudahSpot. “HoudahSpot takes the power of Spotlight (…) and makes it both more powerful and easier to use. As Macworld reviewer Rob Griffith put it in 2008: A simple search form allows for finding files by name, text content, dates, as well as many other file properties. With HoudahSpot, building precise searches is a matter of just a few clicks. HoudahSpot has proven an essential tool for those who work with or rely on a large number of files. This has earned it a spot in the hearts and the Dock of many Mac users. Over the years, HoudahSpot has grown to be ever more powerful and yet easier to use. The idea came to life on May 8th, 2006, with the release of HoudahSpot 1.0. HoudahSpot should combine the speed of the Spotlight index with the flexibility and precision of standard file search. Thus was born the idea for HoudahSpot: “unleash Spotlight”.

It lacked the finesse needed to hone in on the files we were looking for. We soon realized that the Spotlight interface left much of that promise unfulfilled. It allowed for blindingly fast file searches by relying on an index.

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When Apple introduced Spotlight search with Mac OS 10.4 Tiger in 2005, we felt that the Spotlight technology held a lot of promise. Fifteen years ago, we released the first version of what came to be one of the most popular search tools on the Mac: HoudahSpot.

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