August 19, 2004

And a Very Loud Approving Bark for HistoryHound!

WOOF!!

HistoryHound: Go back to pages in your browser Bookmarks or History by typing any words that appear on them! HistoryHound lets you do a fast text search on the entire content of all web pages you've visited recently, plus all the pages you've bookmarked. It's a "personal web search." Just type in a few keywords and HistoryHound gives you a list of pages you've viewed recently, ranked by relevance.

Have you ever tried to find something in your browser history or bookmarks, but couldn't quite remember when or where you saw it? Or perhaps you've got your bookmarks meticulously organized, but it takes forever to mouse through the menus to get to something you want? HistoryHound will chase down the page for you - fast!

Powered by Mac OS X Panther's "V-Twin" search technology for fast searching, HistoryHound scans your browser's cache, history, and bookmarks periodically to keep its search index up to date. It also includes a built-in browser based on WebKit, the same engine that's inside Safari, so your search results are rendered quickly and accurately....

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Dang, this looks really nice, but is only for Macs -- I wonder if any commenters may know of a similar program for Windows -- preferably Mozilla / Firefox. I may have to go check for one.

Occasionally I regret not being a Mac user. But just very occasionally.

Keef

Posted by: keef on August 19, 2004 07:55 PM

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Let us know if you still like it after you run it a few days. I think it was a bit memory intensive and slowed down my system, so I didn't register it after the trial was up.

-- Mac user with no regrets

Posted by: Scott Teresi on August 19, 2004 08:37 PM

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Try furl: http://www.furl.net . It's fantastic.

Posted by: Eric on August 19, 2004 08:38 PM

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furl is magnificent...

Posted by: Brad DeLong on August 20, 2004 06:48 AM

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The Recall Toolbar does something somewhat similar.

Posted by: Chrysostom on August 20, 2004 11:16 AM

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Heck, I'll just stick with the good ol' `grep -ilr Cache` myself. What more do you really need?

Posted by: John Owens on August 20, 2004 07:19 PM

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