Sherlock 3

no longer is the search engine for your hard drive(s). That task has been relegated to the search field on each finder window. Sherlock 3 searches the internet as never before. It has a number of channels: Internet, Pictures, Movies, Yellow Pages, eBay, Flights, AppleCare, etc. If you click on the icon of one of the channels, Sherlock 3's window custom configures its panes for that channel.

We've mostly used Yellow Pages, eBay and AppleCare. If you enter a place of business in Yellow Pages, you get panes that display a map of the location and directions on how to get there. The eBay channel has panes that lists the items for sale, displays the auction page of the item selected and its image, if any. One can page through the items for sale and see their auction pages all in Sherlock 3 without having to go to a browser.

Our favorite channel so far is AppleCare. Enter words into the search field and a list of relevant documents is displayed in the upper pane along with the AppleCare page of the selected document in the lower pane. If the page contains a download, just click on it and your web browser will open and the download will commence.

The new Sherlock 3 is a great information gathering tool.

Next, iCal and iSync will be reported on shortly after they are released.