NotLight 1.4 review (mac)

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NotLight is a simple Spotlight front-end substitute.

License: Freeware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 988K
Developer: mattneub      
Price: $0.00
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NotLight 1.4 is spotlight software developed by mattneub.
NotLight is a simple Spotlight front-end substitute.
I wrote this because I got sick and tired of Tiger's lousy Spotlight interface. (How lousy is it? The magnifying-glass menu is a fake menu; it behaves oddly, and doesn't show all the matches. The Spotlight window looks like something from the Windows world: it works like a web browser, you can't easily navigate it with the keyboard, you have to keep pressing the "i" buttons just to learn where a file is, and so on. The Finder window requires that you jump through all sorts of hoops just to find a file by name. Worst of all, none of these front ends give you access to the real power of Spotlight: they automatically do wildcard searches, they don't let you do exact searches, they don't let you specify case-sensitivity or word-based searches, and they don't let you construct complex boolean searches with AND, OR, and NOT - or if they do, it isn't clear how.)

So I wrote this substitute, in order to access the real Spotlight.
This front end is very simple: the only searches you can do are filename and content. But you can use wildcards or not, specify word-based, case-insensitive, and diacritic-insensitive searches, and construct complex searches with AND, OR, and NOT. You're shown the actual search query in Spotlight's native query language. Results are a simple list of filename and paths.

What's New:

  • Added ability to view file sizes in the Results listing.
  • Added support for CocoaTech Path Finder.
  • Interface tweaks: all checkboxes and operator popup are reset in accordance with search key popup selection; additional attributes reorderably by drag and drop
  • Massive code cleanup, many small bug fixes.
    This mac program is freeware, so you can download and use it absolutely free. NotLight 1.4 supports different languages (including english). It works with Mac OS X.

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