Hey Bill, I checked out the link you posted, and since Karelia doesn't offer the app anymore, can you get it from Sun? Or were do you suggest I try to get this from? Thanks, Mike Robertson On Nov 29, 2004, at 9:59 PM, Bill Rising wrote:
> Hey Folks, > > In case you'd like something that works (in general) better than > Sherlock for simple searching on the web, Watson has been released for > free use on the Mac by Karelia: > > http://weblog.karelia.com/MacOSX/WatsonStatus.html > > Here's the deal: > > Watson was developed for Jaguar. It is one of the best things out > there for looking for info on the web w/o searching. When Panther came > along, Apple took most of the look and feel from Watson and put it > into Sherlock. Never once even mentioned Sherlock as an inspiration. > So... Karelia decided that Watson for the Mac was dead, and sold it to > Sun, who promised a Java (i.e. platform independent) version of it by, > oh, September 2004. Sun instead sat on it, and never developed it. > Karelia thought that this was a waste of a good product, and found a > loophole in their agreement with Sun which allowed them to give away > licenses. > > Check it out. It is one app I use at least twice every day. > > Bill > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
