What's New

Leopard Compatibility

HoudahSpot 2 requires Mac OS X 10.5 and makes use of some of Leopard's unique features.

E.g. HoudahSpot uses Apple's QuickLook technology for brilliant file previews.

All-in-one Interface

Results are shown next to the search query. You may modify the criteria without stopping the running query.

Exclude by Location

Alongside a scope for the search you may define a list of places to ignore. E.g. you could search all of your home folder except for the Library folder.

Limit Output

You may chose to have HoudahSpot show only a limited number of results. E.g. the 100 most recently modified files.

This greatly speeds up queries.

Unlimited Columns

Show and sort by any file attribute you can think of.

Naturally column selection, order as well as sort order are saved to HoudahSpot documents and templates. These are also loaded from the "Preferred Template" in order to create new documents to your liking.

Copy-Paste Support

You may copy from the result list to your favorite text editor or spreadsheet. This is great for further processing of results.

Likewise you may copy attributes from the Inspector window.

Customizable Shortcuts

The global shortcuts for activating HoudahSpot are now customizable.