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Software Watch: March 27

Opinion and Analysis

SpotLook 1.0

I freely admit that I'm mentioning SpotLook because it sounds interesting and I'm hoping someone will explain why it's useful!

Here's the blurb for the open source project: "SpotLook is a graphical user interface to Mac OS X Spotlight desktop search engine. SpotLook uses "tracks". Tracks are timelines showing some kind of results, according to their date. You can use the default tracks or define your own, based on the files UTIs."

(A UTI, or Uniform Type Identifier, identifies a file's type. For example, PDF files have the UTI com.adobe.pdf, while public.jpeg identifies a JPEG file.

Software Watch highlights new and updated Mac software that I think is interesting, useful or otherwise significant. It makes no recommendations - its purpose is merely to provide pointers for people who share my interests.