Tag: search


  • {{ site.webexcsponsor.affiliate1.start }} Find Any File I’ve mentioned HoudahSpot plenty of times, but there’s an app that’s been around since about 2005 that has been continually updated and only costs $6-10 that’s worth checking out if you constantly run into hard-to-find files. One major benefit of Find Any File is that it can search your…

  • HoudahSpot giveaway!

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    I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 licenses ($34 value each) for HoudahSpot. HoudahSpot is basically Spotlight on steroids. All of the power of Spotlight file searching, plus some tricks that Spotlight can’t even do. Results are presented in a fully-fledged file management window, plus file previews, result filtering and saved searches. From the…

  • It’s unseasonably warm for Christmas here in Minnesota. It’s 50° out. To mark the weird occasion, I created a quick plugin for SearchLink that lets you run a search like: !current 55987 And get: Weather for Winona, Minnesota on 2023-12-25 at 12:53 PM: 51.8 and Light rain The plugin only outputs ‘embed’ style, it won’t…

  • Thanks to HoudahSpot for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’ve been using it for years and swear by it as a way to find files that Spotlight can’t, quickly and easily. HoudahSpot is a powerful tool for finding and managing files on your Mac, with features beyond Spotlight. Have you shifted — by choice or by…

  • Welcome to my yearly post about stuff I’ve loved in the last year. I love doing this because it reminds me how amazing the Mac/iOS app ecosystem is these days. I can’t list every app I use in this post, it would take forever, but I can highlight some of the outstanding ones. I’m going…