The macosxhints Rating:
[Score: 8 out of 10]
- Developer: ranchero software [Product Page]
- Price: Free!
- Activation via the keyboard (modifiable hot key)
- Select search engines via the keyboard
- Expandable list of search sites
- Small and unobtrusive GUI
The two changes I'd like to see in Huevos are (1) an option to hide the dock icon and yet still have the Prefs menu selectable via some method (drop-down menu or somesuch) and (2) re-order the search site list via drag and drop -- as it works now, the list is sorted by alpha, and I'd like to put my top five sites at the top of the list. But these are fairly minor quibbles -- the ability to add new sites and fully control Huevos via the keyboard give it a great edge in usability, and you can't beat the price. I'm not sure it's completely replacing Searchling for me (as I do like the fact that Searchling doesn't take a spot in the dock), but Huevos definitely earned a spot in my DragThing launcher!

