Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

Useful Tidbits and Egotistical Musings from Dan Wood

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Thu, 03 Apr 2003

Does anybody miss Sherlock 2?

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The story about Sherlock 3 vs. Watson has been beaten to death*. But what about good old Sherlock 2 (and 1, for that matter?) Watson was originally conceived as a companion to Sherlock -- because Sherlock didn't go far enough. But still, the original Sherlock had some useful features. There are dozens, if not hundreds of Sherlock 2 plug-ins available for download from various Web sites, but Apple effectively abandoned them.

There's an interesting project that's part of Mozilla called Mycroft that resurrects the Sherlock 2 plug-in as a way of conveniently searching a site.

Hmm, this gives me some ideas....

Beyond the Browser Bundle

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We've teamed up with UserCreations and Ranchero to create our first software bundle, packaging Watson together with Spring and NetNewsWire, two other great "beyond the browser" apps. Get all three applications for $68, which is 25% off of individual prices. Details are here. (This goes through the end of April, and unfortunately there's no deal for current Watson licensees...)