-Matt
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Dick Applebaum
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 10:14 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: SOT: Tale of Two Tigers
>
> I got two tigers, last Friday -- one was from Apple, and the Other from
> Sun via Apple.
>
> One is under NDA, so I can't talk about it, the other has been demoed
> in public, so it is fair game.
>
> Apple's Tiger is the next version of OS X. And has many nice features.
>
> I think that one in particular, Spyglass, will be used by web
> developers, in the near future.
>
> Spyglass, quite simply is a search widget, that is pre-built into some
> applications like iTunes. Tiger has implemented a system-wide search
> with a little Spyglass icon it the right corner of the Menubar. It will
> also be available for inclusion in programs that developers write for
> the Mac -- presumably this will include web apps.
>
> I have no Developer specs yet, but I assume that Spyglass is scriptable
> (almost everything on OS X is scriptable -- photoshop, word, etc)
>
> I have been told that Longhorn will have a similar feature, but I
> haven't seen it.
>
> In a sentence Spyglass, quickly searches, names. content and meta data
> of every file in the system.
>
> It is very fast, I did a search on Arlene (my sister's name) and i was
> amazed at some of the things it found -- one was a mp3 in my iTunes
> library, named : "See what the boys in the back room will have.mp3".
> The song is by Marlene Dietrich -- but her name was in neither the file
> name nor the content, but in the metadata for that file.
>
> Spyglass will examine things like email headers, and camera settings of
> captured photos. It will intelligently search the content of file
> types other than text files. For example it can find things inside pdf
> files, etc. You can search for all image files that are 350 x 400
> pixels.
>
> Or, any file containing <cfinvoke (I was thinking about Michael's
> Debugger problem).
>
> Multiple search terms are fine, as are partial words -- it starts
> searching when you type the first letter. (This can be a little
> off-putting, but it is a pre-release).
>
> It neatly categorizes the hits into things like: email, images, etc.
> and shows the top n in each category, with an option to display the
> rest.
>
> I can see developers using this in several ways -- as part of the
> development process (wouldn't that be a nice Eclipse plugin). And, as
> an alternative to Verity, Glimpse or Lucene to provide search
> capabilities for the sites we develop.
>
> If you get the opportunity to see the Tiger pre-release, spend a few
> minutes and try Spyglass -- it will be worth the time.
>
> HTH
>
> Dick
>
>
>
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