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Huevos - Another great desktop Internet search tool Pick of the Week
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Regular readers here will know I'm always on the lookout for the next great "search the Internet from the desktop" tool -- previous winners of the PotW include ShadowGoogle and Searchling. This week, Huevos takes the spotlight as another variant on the same theme. Huevos features most everything I look for in an offline search tool:
  • Activation via the keyboard (modifiable hot key)
  • Select search engines via the keyboard
  • Expandable list of search sites
  • Small and unobtrusive GUI
What makes Huevos particularly nice are the inclusion of search functions for both the PHP and MySQL sites (along with some other less common sites), the ability to easily define additional search sites, and user-assignable hotkeys for the various search engines. For example, if you search Google Images quite often, you can assign Command-I to switch the search engine to Google Images.

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!
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How to get rid of the dock icon in any app.
Authored by: dalmet on Jun 04, '03 09:46:05AM

This is based on a hint in LaunchBar's help.

Navigate to Application.app/Contents/Info.plist, and open the Info.plist file with a text editor. At the end of this file find or add the line containing <key>NSUIElement</key> and change the line below from <string>0</string> to <string>1</string>. Restart the app and the dock icon should be gone.

I haven't tested this on any other app but LaunchBar, but I guess it should work with Huevos as well.



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How to get rid of the dock icon in any app.
Authored by: robg on Jun 04, '03 10:18:59AM

It does, but the downside is that you can no longer get to the app's menus...

-rob.



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True, but...
Authored by: jecwobble on Jun 05, '03 08:38:11AM
In this app's case, I think there are only four relavant menu items:
  1. Preferences: Cmd-,
  2. Quit: Cmd-Q
  3. Help: Cmd-?
  4. Float: (no Cmd sequence)
Three have common shortcuts. Float stays set even after quitting and a quick trip to Interface Builder can add an appropriate shortcut sequence (A quick feedback to the creator wouldn't hurt, either). I like that it's not only hidden from the Dock, it doesn't show up in LiteSwitchX.

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Huevos - Another great desktop Internet search tool
Authored by: kirkmc on Jun 04, '03 10:26:32AM

While Huevos is certainly cool, there are other programs that do the same thing and offer more options.

Try SearchBar for one.

http://www.PommSoft.com/searchbar

Kirk



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Now this is what I like to see
Authored by: dshirley on Jun 04, '03 03:18:39PM

In the days of 5MB apps that do the simplest of things, it's a real pleasure to see an app which downloads so quickly you think it's gone wrong (91kB .SIT file - took less than some of the 404 error pages on websites) and still proves to be indispensable!

This one has earned a spot on my Dock and in DragThing.

Cool!

DS

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