Houdah Software's HoudahSpot is a piece of code that just reached version 2.5, and its main purpose is to help you create detailed queries, and pinpoint the exact file you want to get to. Basically, we're talking about a Spotlight front-end, and its latest version comes as a free update to existing users, adding the "any text" criterion, as well as grid and CoverFlow result views.
The features that should make you interested in this piece of code, if you didn't get it yet, are listed below:
- Faster than Spotlight: the search starts only at your command
- More precise than Spotlight: pinpoint files using a myriad of criteria
- More detailed than Spotlight: show any number of columns
- Fully customizable: set your preferred criteria, columns and sort order
- BlitzSearch: the convenience of Spotlight, the power of HoudahSpot
Priced at $25, this file search program for Mac can be purchased via Houdah Software's online store, and requires at least 8 MB of hard drive space and Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard. Obviously, your OS should have Spotlight enabled, and the best part of it all is that HoudahSpot comes as Universal Binary code, so it works great with both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs.