SpeedSearch X for Mac

User Reviews

• Speedserach still working with Leopard

  perisset3/17/2009

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Speedsearch is great an work very fine also with Mac OS 10.5.x Leopard!

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• So many great utilities, so little time

  grh-svo6/13/2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />wow is VersionTracker one of the best tools on the web or what? I was about to rate SpeedSearch when I saw the comment below about "Sonar Professional." I did a search for Sonar in VersionTracker. Did not find Sonar Pro but did find a totally different utility, Sonar. It looks like all of us should also have that utility. Thanks VT Anyway, I've been using SpeedSearch for a very long time and cannot fault it (except for the interface, which others have commented on.)

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• Powerful Search Tool

  dougrobnyc3/22/2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I was in desperate need of a powerful search tool which could evaluate html files and find an embedded literal. It worked like a charm. Hats off to this company and their developers. Five Fat Stars for this SpeedSearch X - Mac OS X !!!!!!!

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• Ohhhhhh!

  yennta7/2/2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I take it all back. It works great. Just had to set default for all file types. A fine replacement for Patrick Maes"s Findtext. Pepper

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• Carbon Old Style

  David BC10/7/2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I agree with Walter; this tool is really poor and old. It seems to be carbon.

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• Poor tool

  Walter Ross10/4/2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I am a Mac expert for years, consultant and technician working for a big publisher company. Some days ago I have bought a competitor's product by Softobe called iPassepartout and the people who are using that in my company are very happy with it. Just few minutes ago I have just seen a comment on this site, at the iPassepartout page, recommending SpeedSearch instead of that because SpeedSearch is better, faster, so I suppose I was wrong with my purchase... So ten seconds later I came here, downloaded the program, try it, and... I am sorry, this is not a program. First of all, I made the same search in the same folder with both the programs. iPassepartout found 4 files, I checked those files and they really matched the criteria. SpeedSearch found one file only. They both took the same time. 2nd, the technology used is by "second world war" as well as the interface design. For example it doesn't use threads at searching, so if I click on a menu or a pop-up menu, everything stops, and it doesn't use Quartz for rendering text, just to mention 2 cases. 3rd, it doesnt' show the file content, while iPassepartout does that for most of the text files, pdf, html, graphics, movies and songs. So for what I need it's unuseful. Yes, I agree it's only $10. This is a good point. Now, I am not native english, sorry if the world is not only u.s.a., sorry if I exist, but be sure I am native Mac 100% for years and years, and if that reviewer gave 2 stars to iPassepartout, SpeedSearch X should get minus 3 stars. I give it one star, the minimum here allowed.

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• stickman673/21/2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Fast, functional, flexible -- f***ing fantastic!

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• warnergt3/20/2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Great program. I second Levon River's comments. It's not the awesome Ultrafind but it's the closest thing for OS X and it's pretty darn good.

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• Levon River11/18/2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I wanted to give this program fewer stars because it isn't UltraFind--one of the great losses in the shift to OS X. But even though

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• Ken Lanxner2/20/2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Outstanding! Powerful but simple. Opening the file directly to the selection in BBEdit is a great feature.

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