It’s that time again… Another MacZOT BlogZOT, this time for an app called HoudahSpot.

HoudahSpot was originally featured on MacZOT a week or so ago. At the time, I didn’t purchase it because I already had Spotlight with my Tiger installation. But, with it being part of the BlogZOT, I thought I’d give it a try. After playing with it for a while, I’m wishing I would’ve purchased it a long time ago.

One of my biggest pet peeves about Spotlight is that after searching, I have to click the “Show All…” link to get to a point where I can find the location of the file I’m looking for. Why Apple couldn’t put a link to the file from the Spotlight dropdown menu is beyond me. HoudahSpot displays your results, and as you select each item in the results, info about the file appears in a tabbed interface below the search results, making it easy to get all info about the file and it’s location. It’s pretty slick.

There are a few things I do still like about Spotlight, so I’m not going to completely abandon it, but since you can enable global hot keys for HoudahSpot, it makes it fairly easy to choose between which one you want to use.

So, if you’re using Tiger, and were a little underwhelmed by Spotlight, you might want to check this one out.

Link: HoudahSpot

One last thing…

If you’re seeing this on June 16, 2006 head over to MacZOT, where you might be able to get a Free copy of HoudahSpot