Sherlock - has ANYONE found a good replacement?

The only replacement I've found is to go back to using Watson from Karelia Software.
(Sherlock 3 with 'web services' was supposedly based on it, Watson won the Apple's 2002 'Most innovative product' award).

It does a similar job to Sherlock but it doesn't have a flight tracker: I have to use widgets for that. 😟

I just wish Apple would release a download of a 'Sherlock for Leopard' App... It was such a useful app and I really miss it.

Watson however is good at what it does and I hope it will be useful to everyone...

It is now a free download (It was killed off when Sherlock 3 was introduced) and it is available at

http://www.karelia.com/watson/

I've had no problems with it so far in Leopard even though it was for OS X when it first came out... (Sherlock 3 came in 10.2)

Hope it will help you as it has helped me!

JimBob101

I used Sherlock all the time on my iBook. I just purchased a new MacBook and discovered it's not there and Sherlock does not run on 10.5

My favorite utilities were the translation, flight tracker, and the USGS earthquake info.

I don't miss Sherlock one bit. Sherlock was a collection of single-vendor web services. Now that the Web is more mature, I can replicate Sherlock by Command-clicking a bookmarks folder on the bookmarks bar, making those bookmarks open as a set of tabs. In addition, with Web 2.0 sites being as friendly and advanced as they are, I now use flight trackers, stock charts, etc. that are far superior to those that Sherlock offered, and with many more choices and options.

Sherlock was created at a time when Web pages were so primitive that Sherlock was an improvement in usability. It's 10 years later, and the rationale for Sherlock is gone. Apple called this one right. Using Sherlock was like using a closed, non-standard Web browser. Things are better now.

LarryHN wrote:
has ANYONE found a good replacement?

Yes, Safari 🙂



-mj
macjack@gmail.com

you are in the minority on this one. Sherlock was disconitinued because most users ignored the program and third party apps created competition.

Me too... Too bad 😟

Max

I agree, why does Leopard not have it? I used it often. I'm sorry to threadjack but I'm looking for a 3rd party replacement as well.


Ray

I miss it, too. I am finding my movies by going to the New York Times site > My NYT and adding my zip code; translation and flight tracker are available as widgets.

I used Sherlock to manage my cookies.
Could someone please advise what tool to use or steps to take now?
I JUST upgraded from Panther to Leopard.

Thank you.

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