Bug fix: CPU usage Fixes a problem with excessive CPU usage by HoudahSpot Helper
Bug fix: Leopard compatibility Restores compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
New feature: Finder label colors Show results with their respective Finder label colors
New feature: Short path column Added a new column for a minimal path display
Enhancement: Tag search Improved tag search with a list of known tags
Enhancement: Kind search Improved search by kind with a list of known kinds
Bug fix: Text preview Text preview again works for Apple Pages, Microsoft Word, … documents
Bug fix: Tray drop area The drop area for tagging file would on occasion disappear
Bug fix: Limit… Fixes the sort ordering used to limit search results
Bug fix: Mac OS X Leopard Restores compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard
Bug fix: Adding criteria Fixes a bug where HoudahSpot could hang when adding criteria
Enhancement: Named windows
Improvements in the window naming logic
Bug fix: BlitzSearch
HoudahSpot no longer shows an extra empty window on BlitzSearch
Bug fix: Total size
HoudahSpot now reports the correct size of very large folders
Bug fix: QuickLook
Restores support for QuickLook on Mac OX X Leopard
New feature: Named windows
HoudahSpot now names windows based upon the criteria entered
New feature: Multiple screen support
The Tray window now supports multiple screen configurations
New feature: Search by name
Searches by name now also check alternate names
New feature: Mac OS X service
HoudahSpot now exposes a service to open a new window. Use Keyboard System Preferences to assign a keyboard shortcut
New feature: PathFinder integration
HoudahSpot adds an option to get file info in PathFinder
Enhancement: BlitzSearch window
Options are now remembered across restarts
Enhancement: QuickLook window
The QuickLook Preview window may now be closed using the common cmd-W shortcut
Enhancement: Mac OS X Lion
HoudahSpot has seen interface enhancements to match the Mac OS X Lion appearance
Bug fix: File operations
File operations (copy / move) could hang while handling conflicts
New feature: File path bar
Folders may now be dragged from the bottom bar to the "Where…" and "Exclude…" sections of the query pane
Enhancement: File path bar
Command-option click a folder in the bottom bar to add it to the "Exclude…" sections of the query pane
Bug fix: Empty NONE groups
HoudahSpot could crash over searches including an empty NONE group
New feature: Collapsible query pane
The query pane may now be hidden to make more room for the search results
New feature: Total sizes
HoudahSpot now computes folder sizes. Faster than the Finder!
Enhancement: Date created column
The Date created column now shows both date and time
Bug fix: Various
This version brings over several minor fixes from components shared with Tembo
HoudahSpot 3.1.2 has been re-released as the earlier release broke BlitzSearch.
Enhancement: Tray positioning
The Tray is now smarter about positioning itself when attached to the bottom of the screen
Enhancement: Tray sizing
The Tray no longer uses the full height of the screen when attached to the bottom of the screen
Enhancement: Tray vs. Dock
The Tray no longer overlaps with the Dock when the Dock is not set to auto-hide
Enhancement: Tray hiding
The Tray may now hides faster after the last interaction with it
Bug fix: Various
HoudahSpot 3.1.1 addresses several crashing bugs
New feature: Search by type and creator codes
HoudahSpot now supports the legacy type and creator codes
New feature: Source code text previews
Text preview of source code now bypasses the Spotlight engine
New feature: Reveal multiple items
HoudahSpot may now reveal multiple items at once in Finder or PathFinder
Enhancement: Selected criterion rows
HoudahSpot now highlights the selected criterion rows
Bug fix: BlitzSearch & tag searches
HoudahSpot could bring up an extra empty window upon launch
Bug fix: Template saving
Saving and re-saving templates is now more reliable
Bug fix: Font size
Font size adjustment feature was broken
Enhancement: Searching for mails
HoudahSpot 3.0.3 adds a template for finding mail messages
Enhancement: Dock
The Tray no longer overlaps with the Dock
Bug fix: Preferences
Fixes an issue where HoudahSpot Helper's preferences became out of sync with the main application
Bug fix: Tagging multiple files
Tagging multiple files should default to only tags shared by all files
Bug fix: Login items
HoudahSpot failed to add its Helper to the login items
Bug fix: File tagging
Fixes an issue where file tagging did not work on certain systems
Bug fix: Upgrade store
The upgrade store failed to work with "Quit on close of last window" enabled
New feature: The Tray
The main purpose of the HoudahSpot Tray is to provide access to the file tagging features. The Tray may also list your templates
New feature: File tagging
HoudahSpot 3 adds the ability to tag files.
Tags are non-hierarchical keywords assigned to files. They serve a similar purpose than folders. The crucial difference being that a file may be assigned several tags and be located by any of them.
HoudahSpot's tagging feature is based upon the OpenMeta technology. It is thus compatible with a growing number of third party tagging applications.
New feature: Tag searches
The HoudahSpot Tray lists your favorite tags as well as tags recently used by HoudahSpot or another OpenMeta tagging solution.
Drag a file to a tag to assign it that tag. Drag a file to the file well to be presented with a window to enter any number of tags.
Select tags and double-click to start a search. Hold down the option key while double-clicking to match any of the selected tags.
Enhancement: HoudahSpot menu bar item
The behavior of the HoudahSpot menu bar item has been changed slightly.
Clicking the menu bar item now reveals the BlitzSearch window.
Right-clicking the menu bar item opens an actual menu listing HoudahSpot templates.