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Is Macintosh HD full to the brim? Wonder what is using up all that space? With HoudahSpot, it is easy to find the culprits: large files that were recently added to your Mac. If disk space is running tight, you may want to delete or compress these files, or move them to an external disk. The following … Continue reading Find Large Files in OS X →

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LaunchBar is a popular application launcher, clipboard manager, and much more. HoudahSpot is a powerful file search tool. It takes the guesswork out of Spotlight searches and helps you find file hidden deep in the “haystack” of files accumulated over the years. The “Search with HoudahSpot” LaunchBar action provides an elegant way to start a HoudahSpot search using LaunchBar. … Continue reading Start a file search from LaunchBar →

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Searching files with HoudahSpot is always case insensitive. This means that a search for “house”, a search for “House” or a search for “HOUSE” will return the same results. HoudahSpot does not distinguish between upper and lower case letters. If you need to run a search that respects the case, you can do this using the mdfind … Continue reading Run Case Sensitive Searches →

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Google Photos has a pretty nice way of displaying your geotagged photos, with a map and other metadata info. In Google Maps, click on the “i” in the menu bar. A sidebar containing information will appear. This feature is especially nice for sharing photos with family and friends. If you want them to see where your photos were … Continue reading Photos on a Map in Google Photos →

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Tembo implements a custom URL scheme. Use this to start searches from third party tools like Alfred, Butler, or LaunchBar. Tembo 2.0 search URLs have the following format: tembo2://search?query=[QUERY]&location=[LOCATION]&group=[GROUP] Such URLs can be invoked by any application, browser, launcher, script, etc. In this article we will look at setting up a custom search in Alfred. Example: tembo2://search?query=Houdah%20Software&location=~/Documents&group=PDF The … Continue reading Start a Tembo file search from Alfred, Butler, or LaunchBar →

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We’ve recently returned from a trip to India. Back home, I generated a Google My Map to document our visit to the Taj Mahal in Agra. This is what it looks like: The map includes not only the path we’ve travelled, but also some of the images taken. Click on the thumbnails to see info … Continue reading Your Photos & Path in Google My Maps →

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According to research, e-mail users send and receive an average of 122 business e-mails per day. And the amount is bound to increase in the future. To find specific information in the haystack of archived e-mail data can be a difficult task. In order to get to the messages you’re looking for, you might need to combine different kind of information. For users of … Continue reading Use the Mail template to find e-mails in Apple Mail →

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Here is a quick and easy way to access your favorite and frequently used HoudahSpot search setups: Just put them into the Dock, from where you can  access them with one click. To put a HoudahSpot template file into the Dock: In the HoudahSpot menu bar, go to HoudahSpot > Preferences > Templates. Select your template, then press the “Reveal … Continue reading Put frequently used Search Templates into the Dock for quick access →

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When organizing files, we sometimes need to find files that lack a Spotlight comment or have not yet been tagged. Finding such files is easy with HoudahSpot. The procedure however is not immediately obvious. This post will show you how to search for files with no tags. Start by adding a Tags criterion to your … Continue reading Find files with no tags or Spotlight comment →

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In part 1 of this blog post series, we discussed how you can use reference photos to speed up your geocoding process. The easiest, fastest and most precise way to geotag your photos, however, is to provide HoudahGeo with a so called track log file. While there are smartphone apps which record track logs (as discussed in … Continue reading Geotag your photos automatically – part 3 →

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