Sherlock no longer works?

Well this could definitely be my weekend project. I'll spend the next few days attempting to revive Sherlock by switching out the URL's among other things so that it could have at least some functionality. I don't really have a need for Sherlock but I do know that some people want it.

I might have to recruit some help on this one haha. I too know almost nothing about XML but it'll be a learning experience. All's I know is that XML is in like, a hierarchial form and is used by things like Windows Event's (The administrator program that let's you read all of the warning messages and events that Window's has had) and whatnot.

I also might end up talking to Google and/or Microsoft about Google and Bing to see if they could of any assistance in getting the general Search function working (It does still work, but it can only search About [dot] com. Plus, who searches with Ask Jeeves anymore? haha) More likely it will end up being Google because most people prefer it over Bing.

As for maps... I have no idea. I do know that Sherlock works the same way that Google maps on Android and iOS work. In the way that Sherlock's just a frontend installed locally on the computer and it requests information from the internet using backend API's. So theoretically, it could work again so along as I can get ahold of the backend API's. (Hack an Android perhaps?)

I'm not home right now so I can't check what else Sherlock could do... but I will later when I get home. Really I just typed this as a way to jot down info/ideas for me/others. Anyone willing to help can 🙂 especially considering I know people still want Sherlock to work.

I don't know for sure if this link will work but I made a group on Facebook just because:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_185771948141136

If it doesn't work for you, the group name is "Don't let Sherlock die"

Actually, ignore that last post. I would delete it but i have no idea how to on this site since they changed it.

So I've finally managed to start delving into Sherlock andso far what I've found is that each "Channel" used to update it's dataon where it gets it's info from files onhttp://si.info.apple.com/channels/(etc). AND that you can stilldownload the files that are mentioned in the Sherlock Channel files.Such as: http://si.info.apple.com/channels/us/reference/systran.src.hqxwhich is an old archive. However these files cannot be used by Sherlock2 on OS X but can be used by Sherlock 2 on OS 9. When I did open the.src file with Sherlock 2 on OS 9, it actually did update some of it'sservices and added new ones under the Internet channel. I wasn't ableto check if this made it possible for it to actually accessthose services because of internet connection problems with using OS 9via Classic mode. I will eventually try to use it using my old iMac G3,as this computer cannot use the wifi card it has installed under OS 9(Broadcom cards weren't supported apparently =/ )

It's exact message is:

The document "Systran.src" could not be opened. Sherlock cannot open files in the "Internet Search Site" format.

And for the record, I honestly have no clue what Linfeeds and Carriage Returns are haha. I could make a guess, drawing from my experience with coding on Linux (which isn't much) but otherwise I don't know.