SpotInside
Version: 1.0 ||
Release Date: 2008-07-08 ||
License: Freeware
SpotInside searches txt, rtd, rtfd, doc and PDF documents and shows preview their contents with keywords highlighted.
Tags: Spotlight




3 Opinions:
This software is amazing -- BETTER than a lot of the paid Spotlight alternatives!
I have intsalled Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) just yesterday and now SpotInside crashes on launch.
By the way... A few more applications do not work anymore (ToolPlayer, Word Counter, etc.) and others display error messages (Miro, Play MiTunes, etc.).
Taply (a "tiny" audio player) works well but everytime it quits, a crash log is issued.
And Gizmo Project is unable to establish a connection.
And I'm sure more applications have problems with the Leopard. I did not test them all yet.
There are also some Dashboard widgets that also do not work (Piano Theory, for example).
Well... Let's wait for the updates to make these applications and widgets compatible with Leopard.
Just what I was looking for. Quicksilver does more (but more than I want it to ... and it was just too awkward to get it to do what I did want it to do); GoogleDesktop is better than Spotlight (paths displayed / better interface), but kept the fans running even on this quite high-spec machine.
SpotInside allows me search all my docs, has a sensible 'rating hit' system and offers a preview of the document with my search terms highlighted. Just what I wanted.