Enhancement: Result sorting
HoudahSpot 2.1.5 adds a menu item that makes sorting results even easier. It is now possible to sort by attributes which are not displayed as columns.

Enhancement: Criteria text fields
HoudahSpot 2.1.5 also features larger text entry fields for criteria.

Enhancement: BlitzSearch appearance
The BlitzSearch menu item now respects the accent color of the user's choice.

Bug fix: Result sorting
HoudahSpot 2.1.5 fixes sorting of multi-valued columns (e.g. Authors).

Bug fix: Filter predicate
Recent versions of HoudahSpot 2 failed to apply the filter predicate.

Enhancement: Maximum result count
Upped the maximum allowed result count to 10`000.

Enhancement: Accent color selection
HoudahSpot 2.1.4 adds a hidden preference allowing for the accent color to be customized. Enter one of the following at the command line in Terminal.app and relaunch HoudahSpot.

defaults write com.houdah.HoudahSpot accentColor yellow


defaults write com.houdah.HoudahSpot accentColor red


defaults write com.houdah.HoudahSpot accentColor green


defaults write com.houdah.HoudahSpot accentColor blue


defaults write com.houdah.HoudahSpot accentColor grey


Bug fix: Trial period
The trial count was decremented on each change to the query.

Bug fix: Result sorting
HoudahSpot 2.1.1 broke sorting. Sorting can again be controlled by clicking column headers

Enhancement: QuickLook
The preview view now uses the same zoom effect as the QuickLook window in Finder.

Enhancement: Preview
The main window keeps the focus when opening the Preview window. You may navigate files using arrow keys.

Bug fix: Add columns
Newly added columns immediately show their values. Previously the search had to be restarted.

Bug fix: Global shortcuts
Changes to global shortcuts are now always immediate.

Bug fix: Show icons in result list
The "Show icons in result list" preference was ignored in HoudahSpot 2.1.

Bug fix: Show results immediately
The "Show results immediately" preference was ignored in HoudahSpot 2.1.

Bug fix: Global menu
The global HoudahSpot menu takes focus from the frontmost application. Closing the menu properly restores focus.

Bug fix: BlitzSearch
Running a BlitzSearch created a stray empty window.

New feature: BlitzSearch
BlitzSearch lets you start of your search with the same convenience as the standard Spotlight menu. Yet down the road you will find all the power and customizability that exists only in HoudahSpot.

New feature: Always-on global menu
The global menu item may now be displayed without HoudahSpot running. This gives you access to the full power of HoudahSpot. Yet you will not have the HoudahSpot icon cluttering your Dock.

New feature: Finder toobar item
HoudahSpot may add an icon to the toolbar of Finder windows. With this, searching a specific folder is only a click away.

New feature: AppleScript support
You may invoke BlitzSearch using AppleScript:

     on handle_string(theString)

               tell application "HoudahSpot"

                     blitzSearch searchString theString options both

           end tell

  end handle_string

New feature: LaunchBar integration
HoudahSpot 2.1 also integrates with third party products like LaunchBar. Start a search from within LaunchBar. Refine it in HoudahSpot. Manipulate the results using LaunchBar.

Invoke BlitzSearch from a LaunchBar search template:

       hhspot://blitzSearch?searchString=*&options=3

New feature: Service menu
BlitzSearch is now available from the Services menu in all applications.

New feature: Spotlight menu
HoudahSpot 2.1 may work as full replacement for the default Spotlight UI. You will probably want to disable the default Spotlight menu.

Enhancement: Column display
HoudahSpot 2.1 correctly displays columns with multiple values. E.g. Authors.

Enhancement: Contextual menu
Dramatically improved speed of the contextual menu item.

Enhancement: QuickLook preview
The preview window now has the full power of QuickLook.

Enhancement: Open with…
You may now freely chose which application to open result items with.

Bug fix: Fractional file sizes
Searches for files of sizes less than 1 now works correctly.

Bug fix: Opening files
Fixed a bug where opening files would occasionally fail.

Bug fix: Find by example
Find by example occasionally failed on date criteria.

Bug fix: Inspector
Finally - really, really - fixes the bug of the empty inspector windows.

Feature: Keyboard navigation
Hit RETURN or ENTER to open selected files. Hit SPACE to preview first selected file.

Bug fix: Templates list
The lists of templates in the status menu item remained empty in HoudahSpot 2.0.5..

Bug fix: Inspector
The inspector window remained empty in HoudahSpot 2.0.4 and 2.0.5.

Feature: Keyboard navigation
Hit ENTER to open selected files. Hit SPACE to preview first selected file.

Bug fix: Inspector
The inspector window remained empty in HoudahSpot 2.0.4.

Bug fix: Templates list
The lists of templates in the Preferences window failed to update when a new template is created.