Houdah Software

Big news: HoudahGeo has reached 3.0!

HoudahGeo 3.0 is a complete rewrite with a focus on ease of use and performance.

HoudahGeo now presents itself with an all-in-one-window interface. The window has three 3 states: load, process and output. At each stage only the currently required elements are shown. While loading images and track logs into the project, a media browser gives you access to your iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom libraries. During the process stage coordinates and metadata are added to images. For this HoudahGeo shows a map and an inspector pane next to the list of images. Once you are ready to output the newly created metadata, only toolbar buttons for export and publishing operations are shown.

HoudahGeo 3.0 also brings new features. Probably the most welcome addition is the support for many more GPS devices. This was made possible by several excellent open source projects: GPSBabel, igotu2gpx, iTU4l/sr2x and rgm3800.py.

The new offline reverse geocoding feature lets you perform reverse geocoding at top speed without requiring an Internet connection.

HoudahSpot is currently available as part of the Fall 2011 Mac SuperBundle.

The bundle is priced at $49 and includes $365 worth of Mac software:

★ Camtasia for Mac - $149

★ Fantastical - $19.99 

★ CleanMyMac - $29.95 

★ DiscLabel - $35.95 

★ HoudahSpot - $30 

★ MacHider - $19.95

★ Ensoul - $9.99 

★ Audio Converter Pro - $35.95 

★ Font Explosion Volume I - $19.99

All apps in the Mac SuperBundle are OS X Lion compatible.

Tembo implements a service to create a new search window. This makes it easy to start a Tembo search upon a single keystroke. Just follow the instructions from the Tembo > Preferences > Shortcuts to the Keyboard System Preferences Pane. There you may assign a hotkey to the "Search in Tembo" service.

If you want more flexibility, you may use AppleScript to launch Tembo:

1. Download the LaunchTembo script

2. Move the script to ~/Library/Scripts/

If you wish to assign a hotkey to the script:

3. Download and install FastScripts (free for up to 10 keyboard shortcuts)

4. Set your hotkey in FastScripts

While in San Francisco, TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) and MacTech Magazine teamed up to speak to developers at Apple's WWDC 2011 about the keynote and how Apple's new technologies will help them and their customers.

In this video Brett Terpstra interviews Pierre Bernard of Houdah Software. Pierre reveals that future plans for Tembo include localizations in German, French and Japanese.

Also, check out the free trial subscription offer for MacTech Magazine here.

By popular demand, the elephant icon will return in Tembo 1.4. He brings a magnifying glass and is cuter than ever.

Tembo 1.4 will itself bring quite a few enhancements.

Group headers will show result counts.

There will be an option for advanced users to exclude certain file types.

And much more…

The French "Vous et Votre Mac" magazine has just published a glowing review of Tembo 1.0.

Tembo was awarded 5 out of 5 possible stars.

Download the full review as a PDF file.  The article walks through all the major features of Tembo: grouped results view, drill-down and filters.

In conclusion, the reviewer writes: "A very practical window with grouped results; many pre-definded filter functions; an easy interface inspired by the iPad, but very efficient; works well as extension the Mail, iChat and Safari applications."

Houdah Software is proud to pre-announce it's latest product. Tembo has reached draft / public beta status.

Like HoudahSpot, Tembo is a search tool based upon the Spotlight engine. The job of Tembo is to make searching (and finding) of files, mail messages, bookmarks, … as easy as possible.

At first sight you will find Tembo to have been inspired by the original Spotlight interface as we knew it under Mac OS X Tiger.

Search results are grouped by categories. Preferences allow for categories to be enabled, disabled and reordered.

Behind a small arrow on the header bar for each group you will find the real power of Tembo. Tembo provides appropriate result filters in each group.

Tembo may list up to 2500 search results. Rather than have you scroll through the long list to find the desired result, you would apply filters to narrow down the list. The Messages group, for example, offers filters on author, recipient and subject.

Thus Tembo is much more than a file search tool. It works as extension to Mail.app / iChat.app to locate messages.

I finally received my copy of iLife.

The good news is that HoudahGeo should be fully compatible. Apple did not change the API.

The bad news is that the API used by HoudahGeo to notify iPhoto is broken in iPhoto 9.0.1.

I hope for Apple to fix this soon.

ACTCurrency - Free for 24h only , selected "Surprise of the Day" in the World Football Calendar 2010 by MagicSolver.  

Head over to Houdah.com to discover an all-new web site.

We hope the new layout will improve your experience of reading up on our products and on finding support resources.

Thanks go to Ryan Scherf for the excellent job on the design.

BTW, while we were at it, we have also created a Facebook fan page.