Blue Crab Lite Changelog

What's new in Blue Crab Lite 2.1

Jan 13, 2016
  • Update for Mac OS 10.11
  • Fixed a bug opening the download directory from the grabber window (the 'Reveal' button), and similar problems with other convenience functions that open folders or files.

New in Blue Crab Lite 2.0.6 (Feb 19, 2015)

  • Help menu link to the website has been fixed.

New in Blue Crab Lite 2.0.5 (Jan 22, 2015)

  • For document searching: updated the Spotlight indexer to support 64-bit Spotlight word extractors, which in particular fixes an issue with extracting words to create indexes of RTF files.
  • Removed the 2000 word limit on the number of words extracted. Previously an index would contain a maximum of 2000 unique words, now it includes as many as there are in the document.

New in Blue Crab Lite 2.0.4 (Jan 14, 2015)

  • Maintenance update
  • Fixed search - it was not properly searching PDF files.

New in Blue Crab Lite 2.0.2 (Feb 14, 2011)

  • Various improvements to the Search window (accessed from the "Grab & Search" menu.)
  • Search: A QuickLook document preview window has been added to the Search facility. After a search is conducted and search results are presented in the hierarchical view, single click on an item to open the QuickLook viewer. (On Mac OS X 10.4 the preview will simply be the files icon, since QuickLook is only available on Mac OS X 10.5 and above.)
  • Search: Use the QuickLook window to display the list of words in the current document, sorted alphabetically. This is a method for obtaining a summary of the documents content, taken out of context. (It is the same index used by Spotlight.)
  • Search: The Search window now searches any document type supported by Spotlight, since it uses Spotlight for text extraction.
  • Search: The search query of the Search window is placed into the "Find" clipboard so that you can quickly search for the term in the document itself when it is opened in the creator application, provided that application supports the Find clipboard, such as TextWrangler or XCode. (Double click an item in the search results window to open it in the default application for that type of file.)

New in Blue Crab Lite 1.0.5 (Jul 19, 2010)

  • Extended the functionality by adding a search facility that can search the textual contents of files. Search results are displayed in a hierarchical list matching the directory path location of each found file. The search query is placed on the "Find" clipboard so that you can easily search for the string once the file is opened up in its creator application (provided that the application supports "find" strings, such as TextEdit, TextWrangler or Xcode.) Access search via the "Grab & Search" menu, or typing "Command-S"
  • Bug fix: the program would hang during a crawl if the option for logging was deselected.

New in Blue Crab Lite 1.0.4 (Jan 20, 2009)

  • A new preferences window adds options for logging and crawling "offsite" domains, i.e. URLs whose domain does not match the starting URL.
  • Offsite URLs are always remapped, i.e. HTML files that contain links to these URLs are modifed to point to the corresponding downloaded files.
  • The log contains all the same messages that appear in the status window, as well as extracted URLs during the crawling process.
  • The pause button is now hidden when the crawling completes.

New in Blue Crab Lite 1.0.3 (Nov 7, 2008)

  • You can now drag URLs and locations from Safari, FireFox and other browsers onto the Dock Icon to open a grabber window for that URL.

New in Blue Crab Lite 1.0.2 (Nov 4, 2008)

  • You can now drag favicon's from Safar's location field onto the Dock icon for Blue Crab Lite to open a grabber window for that URL.

New in Blue Crab Lite 1.0.1 (Nov 4, 2008)

  • Initial release.