Tag Archives: tiger

Still Seeking an Exploded Tinderbox for Tiger

This is a recurring thought: I still really, really want an exploded Tinderbox on Tiger. It could so become an über Spotlight/Finder replacement. I just don’t seem to have time or ambition to write it. I don’t mention Tinderbox very often, but I’ve got a few Tinderbox documents set as Login Items on my [...]

SpotMeta fixes Spotlight for OS X Tiger

I just realized that I’ve been remiss and have yet to mention Ben Summers’ SpotMeta. Remember when I was grousing about the disconnect between Spotlight and HFS Extended Attributes? SpotMeta fixes this disconnect. SpotMeta allows you to set pretty much any arbitrary name/value pairs on any file, to be indexed and searchable [...]