May 25th, 2012· Bug fix: HoudahSpot Tray - Fixes display glitches with the Tray window
· Bug fix: Mountain Lion - Improves compatibility with Mountain Lion
April 11th, 2012· Bug fix: Criterion duplication - Fixes a bug where duplicating a criterion would leave the copy ignored by the query
· Bug fix: Limit… feature - Fixes a bug where the Limit… was not applied correctly
February 10th, 2012· Enhancement: Display number of selected files - Now shows the number of selected files in the results title bar
· Enhancement: Opening Adobe InDesign files - Works around a bug when opening files with Adobe InDesign
· Bug fix: Activation - Fixes a bug where upgrade purchase or activation may crash
January 16th, 2012· 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
January 10th, 2012· 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
October 24th, 2011· Fixes the sort ordering used to limit search results
September 23rd, 2011· Bug fix: Mac OS X Leopard - Restores compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard.
September 22nd, 2011· Bug fix: Adding criteria - Fixes a bug where HoudahSpot could hang when adding criteria.
August 11th, 2011· 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
July 27th, 2011· 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
June 25th, 2011· 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
April 29th, 2011· New feature: Collapsible query pane - The query pane may now be hidden to make more room for the search results.
March 4th, 2011· New feature: Total sizes - HoudahSpot now computes folder sizes. Faster than the Finder!
February 19th, 2011· 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
February 9th, 2011Enhancement:
· 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
January 9th, 2011· Bug fix: Various - HoudahSpot 3.1.1 addresses several crashing bugs
October 18th, 2010· 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
September 14th, 2010Bug 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
July 6th, 2010· 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
July 1st, 2010· Bug fix: File tagging - Fixes an issue where file tagging did not work on certain systems.
July 1st, 2010· Bug fix: Upgrade store
· The upgrade store failed to work with "Quit on close of last window" enabled
June 30th, 2010· 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.
June 7th, 2010· Bug fix: HoudahSpot Helper - Under HoudahSpot 2.7.3, HoudahSpot Helper (global menu & shortcuts) failed to launch.
June 4th, 2010· New feature: Find similar files - From within the Inspector, you may now find other files matching the selected properties
· Bug fix: Preferred Template - Searches created from the preferred template would auto-start under some situations
· Bug fix: QuickLook - The main window no longer loses focus when activating QuickLook using the space bar
· Bug fix: BlitzSearch - Under Mac OS X Leopard, HoudahSpot would not always come to front for a BlitzSearch
May 4th, 2010· Bug fix: Crash on install - HoudahSpot could crash while copying itself to the Applications folder
· Bug fix: Crash on opening file - HoudahSpot could crash when a search result was double-clicked
· Bug fix: Error messages on first launch - HoudahSpot 2.7 and 2.7.1 may display an alert while upgrading templates
April 28th, 2010· Enhancement: Search locations - Upon adding a search location, HoudahSpot now picks a location which is not already covered.
· Enhancement: Date columns - Modification & creation date columns now also show time.
· Bug fix: Global shortcuts & menu - HoudahSpot 2.7 failed to install itself as login items when it should have.
April 24th, 2010· New feature: Any text criterion
· The any text criterion now also matches text content.
· New feature: Global shortcuts
· Global shortcuts may now be enabled independently of the global menu item.
· New feature: Inspector window
· Links in the Inspector window are now clickable.
· Enhancement: Trashing remote files
· HoudahSpot now offers the option to delete files which it cannot trash.
· Bug fix: Various
· HoudahSpot 2.7 includes various bug fixes. It is a recommended update for all users.
February 1st, 2010· Enhancement: Inspector windows - HoudahSpot now remembers which inspectors were open and restores them on launch.
· Bug fix: Crash with empty "text content" criteria - HoudahSpot could crash when running a search with an empty "text content" criterion.
· Bug fix: Boolean values - HoudahSpot was unable to restore boolean values (e.g file invisible) from saved files or templates.
· Bug fix: Result counter - The result counter was off after files were removed from and restored to the searched location.
· Bug fix: Hot key preferences - The global hot keys are available only when the global menu is enabled.
January 4th, 2010· Enhancement: File size display - On Snow Leopard, HoudahSpot now uses 1000 Bytes = 1 KB.
· Enhancement: Help book - The Help book as seen some updates and corrections.
· Bug fix: Column width persistence - Column with is again correctly restored as persisted.
· Bug fix: Column width in new documents - Column again use up the full width of a new document.
December 31st, 2009· New feature: Automatic install - HoudahSpot suggest to install itself in the Applications folder.
· Enhancement: Finder toolbar button - The Finder toolbar button has been renamed to show a shorter title.
· Bug fix: Adding criteria to a group - Clicking the "+" button on a group criterion did not work in HoudahSpot 2.6.
· Bug fix: Services on Leopard - Integration with third party services was broken under Leopard
· Bug fix: Column width - Column with is again correctly restored as persisted.
· Bug fix: Uppercase search strings - Uppercase crteria values could broduce incorrect results on Snow Leopard.
December 27th, 2009· New Feature: "Add group" toolbar items - HoudahSpot 2.6 adds toolbar buttons for "Add ALL Group", "Add ANY Group" and "Add NONE Group".
· New Feature: "Search Location" service - A "Search Location in HoudahSpot" service is now provided in the Finder as well as in other applications working with files.
· New Feature: Narrow down search scope - You may narrow down a search by command-clicking folders in the path control at the bottom of the window.
· New Feature: Adjustable icon size in grid view - The grid view now has a slider to adjust icon size.
· New Feature: Contextual menu in grid view - The grid view now provides the same contextual menu as the list view.
· New Feature: Query Inspector - You may now see the MDQuery string passed to Spotlight.
· Enhancement: Add criterion behavior - Clicking a "+" button on a criterion row duplicates the current row. This makes it easier than ever to refine a search.
· Enhancement: Mac OS X services - HoudahSpot 2.6 improves integration with other applications through Mac OS X services. Services are also available for the contextual menus.
· Enhancement: BlitzSearch services - The BlitzSearch service is now enabled by default under Snow Leopard.
· Enhancement: Font size - Result list font size is adjustable and preference is persisted.
· Enhancement: Toolbar icons - HoudahSpot 2.6 features new toolbar and preferences icons by Lars Herrmann.
· Enhancement: Result item deletion - The keyboard shortcut for item deletion has been changed to match other applications.
November 12th, 2009· Upcoming Price Increase - With the release of HoudahSpot 2.6, the price of HoudahSpot will go up. Buy now to get it at the current low price.
· Enhancement: Support for OpenMeta tags - HoudahSpot 2.5.10 brings enhanced support for OpenMeta tags. HoudahSpot adopts recent changes made to OpenMeta.
· Bug fix: Inspector - The Inspector window had a bug in HoudahSpot 2.5.9 where it remained blank.
· Bug fix: Spotlight warning - HoudahSpot 2.5.9 could would warn about a corrupted Spotlight index when set to start immediately upon login.
· Bug fix: File copy - The warning alert shown when file copy, rename or move hit a problem, was not functional.
September 26th, 2009· Bug fix: Ignored criteria on Leopard - HoudahSpot 2.5.9 running on Leopard could ignore criteria and report excess files in search results.
· Bug fix: Missing files from results - When limiting the search to a fixed number of results, HoudahSpot sometimes listed fewer files than requested.
· Bug fix: Memory leak - HoudahSpot could leak memory causing its memory consumption to build up over time.
September 20th, 2009· Bug fix: Files missing from results - HoudahSpot failed to list files which to Spotlight's knowledge were never opened.
· Bug fix: Finder toolbar item - HoudahSpot is now able to add a "Search in HoudahSpot" item to the Finder toolbar under both Leopard and Snow Leopard.
· Bug fix: QuickLook preview - Under Snow Leopard, the QuickLook preview again follows the current selection.
September 2nd, 2009· Enhancement: Finder toolbar item - HoudahSpot is now able to add a "Search in HoudahSpot" item to the Finder toolbar under Snow Leopard.
· Enhancement: File deletion - File deletion now uses the same command-backsapce keyboard shortcut as used by the Finder.
· Bug fix: File operations - Warnings during file copy / move / rename operations can now be correctly acknowledged.
· Bug fix: Help book - Fixes broken links in the HoudahSpot Help book.
July 6th, 2009· Bug fix: Apostrophes - HoudahSpot correctly handles single quote characters entered as search criteria.
· Bug fix: Apple Script - AppleScript access to result items was broken with the 2.5 release.
June 29th, 2009· Snow Leopard compatibility.
June 5th, 2009· Bug fix: Global menu item - Fixed a bug where HoudahSpot crashed when activated from the global menu item.
· Bug fix: AppleScript - Fixed a bug where HoudahSpot crashed when asked to open a new document from AppleScript.
June 5th, 2009· Bug fix: Global menu item
· Fixed a bug where HoudahSpot crashed when activated from the global menu item.
· Bug fix: AppleScript
· Fixed a bug where HoudahSpot crashed when asked to open a new document from AppleScript.
May 31st, 2009· Bug fix: Search by date
· HoudahSpot 2.5 failed to produce results when searching by exact date.
· Bug fix: Text Preview
· HoudahSpot 2.5 did not reliably highlight search strings in "Text Preview".
· Bug fix: Search string
· HoudahSpot 2.5 did not reliably pass on search strings when opening document.
May 24th, 2009· New feature: Search "any text" criterion - The new "any text" criterion matches all text attributes of files.
· New feature: Grid view - HoudahSpot now includes an option to show results as a grid of icons.
· New feature: CoverFlow view - HoudahSpot now includes an option to show results using CoverFlow.
· New feature: BlitzSearch "any text" attribute - The "any text" criterion is available from BlitzSearch.
· Enhancement: Preview now works with audio files - QuickLook preview now supports previewing audio files.
· Bug fix: Files that were never opened were not found - HoudahSpot is now able to find files which have "never" before been opened.
· Bug fix: Drag and drop - Changes to criteria made via drag and drop were sometimes not accounted for.
February 16th, 2009· Bug fix: Search - In HoudahSpot 2.4.3 some searches produced more results than expected.
· Bug fix: Finder labels - In HoudahSpot 2.4.3 Finder labels were not displayed correctly.
February 13th, 2009· Enhancement: Year recorded - The "Year recorded" attribute is now displayed with integer formatting.
· Bug fix: Global menu - In HoudahSpot 2.4.2 the global menu was inoperational on PPC machines.
· Bug fix: Text preview - HoudahSpot now reliably determines the search string to use in the Text Preview.
February 11th, 2009· Enhancement: Global menu - The global menu now tries to be rightmost: closest to the system clock.
· Bug fix: Clear result list - The result list was not reliably cleared on stop.
· Bug fix: Missing files - A workaround for another bug made some files invisble to HoudahSpot.
February 5th, 2009· Enhancement: Get Finder Info - It is now possible to get Finder info for several result items at a time.
· Enhancement: Open file - It is now possible to open several result items at a time.
· Enhancement: OpenMeta support - The "Tags" attribute now shows by default in the criteria drop down menu on systems where OpenMeta is used.
· Bug fix: Text preview - The text to highlight is now determined more reliably from the current search criteria.
· Bug fix: Global shortcuts - HoudahSpot and its helper process now synchronize changes to global shortcuts more reliably.
January 26th, 2009· New feature: Text preview - Top user requested feature: text preview with search string highlighting.
January 5th, 2009· Bug fix: License detection - Fixes an issue where the registered license was not detected reliably.
January 2nd, 2009· Expired trial periods are reset.
· Fixed: Some Finder labels were incorrectly named in HoudahSpot.
January 2nd, 2009· Trial period - Now comes with a 15-day trial period.
· File name search - It is now possible to search for file names by words.
· Various fixes.
November 4th, 2008· New feature: Finder labels - HoudahSpot 2.3 now displays and queries Finder labels by their name.
· New feature: Query editing - HoudahSpot 2.3 adds new menu items which allow for criterion and group creation from the menu.
· New feature: BlitzSearch keyboard shortcuts - The BlitzSearch window may now be controlled using the keyboard only. The command key reveals the new keyboard shortcuts.
· New feature: BlitzSearch template shortcuts - The BlitzSearch feature now supports the keyboard shortcuts assigned to templates in the main applications.
· New feature: Accent color - The accent color used in the main and BlitzSearch windows may now be customized within HoudahSpot’s preferences. The default is now blue. The former default was yellow.
August 1st, 2008· Bug fix: BlitzSearch URL scheme - The custom URL scheme was not fully compatible with URLs constructed by LaunchBar's search templates. Plus signs were substituted for spaces.
· Bug fix: BlitzSearch - When starting the HoudahSpot application using BlitzSearch, a second empty document was created.
· Bug fix: Filters - The filtering feature was partially broken in HoudahSpot 2.2 and 2.2.1.
· Enhancement: Accent color - Added an intructions to the built-in Help on how to change the accent color (yellow) used in the main window as well as in the BlitzSearch window.
July 27th, 2008· Enhancement: Spaces - The BlitzSearch window now shows in all Spaces.
· Bug fix: BlitzSearch URL scheme - The custom URL scheme did not produce the expected results with special characters or spaces in the searchString or templateName parameters.
· Bug fix: BlitzSearch URL scheme - The templateName required you to include the ".hspot" file extension. This is now optional.
July 23rd, 2008· The BlitzSearch feature has been rewritten from scratch! It now presents a much more powerful and flexible interface. You may chose to search in file names, text contents and/or Spotlight comments.
· You may now specify a template to use for your BlitzSearch query. E.g you may have a template set up to search only specific locations.
· New: AppleScript support. You may initiate BlitzSearch queries using AppleScript. Moreover AppleScript may access the search results as well as the current selection.
· New: File filter. The filter predicate is now persisted with documents and templates. Re-open HoudahSpot documents to fin them exactly as they were when saved.
· New: PathFinder integration. HoudahSpot 2.2 adds a "Reveal in PathFinder" feature.
· New: Date formats. HoudahSpot now shows date and time for file modifications. Date formats are listed in the HoudahSpot preferences file. Advanced users may want to edit that file. Available formats are shortDate, shortDateTime, longDate and longDateTime.
· New: Font size. It is now possible to adjust the font size of the results list.
· Enhancement: Inspector. The Inspector now lists a file's path. You may copy it from there and paste it into other applications.
· Bug fix: BlitzSearch. Formerly BlitzSearch on occasion opened a second blank window. This is fixed.
· Caveat: Updated AppleScript dictionary. HoudahSpot 2.2 comes with an updated AppleScript dictionary. This unfortunately breaks existing scripts. Please review your scripts for compatibility. Sorry for the inconvenience.
April 25th, 2008· 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).
April 14th, 2008· 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.
March 20th, 2008· Bug fix: Trial period - The trial count was decremented on each change to the query.
March 13th, 2008· Bug fix: Result sorting - HoudahSpot 2.1.1 broke sorting. Sorting can again be controlled by clicking column headers
March 12th, 2008· 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.
February 25th, 2008· 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:
· 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.
· 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.
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