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GovornorPhatt
Dec 22, 2003, 08:00 PM
Out of all of Apple's applications, Sherlock (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/sherlock/) seems neglected. There isn't a US news channe and in many cases it's just faster and eaiser to use Google. In fact, almost all of the searches can be conducted faster from Safari. The movie search is okay. What new features would you like to see in a new version of Sherlock?


pivo6
Dec 22, 2003, 09:39 PM
I personally never use Sherlock, so leaving it alone because other programs can do better is fine with me.
MisterMe
Dec 22, 2003, 10:22 PM
Originally posted by GovornorPhatt
Out of all of Apple's applications, Sherlock (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/sherlock/) seems neglected. There isn't a US news channe and in many cases it's just faster and eaiser to use Google. In fact, almost all of the searches can be conducted faster from Safari. The movie search is okay. What new features would you like to see in a new version of Sherlock? What do you mean there is not a US news channel? Under "World News," there is a pop-up menu with "United States" and "Canada" as selections. Other selections, though not US-specific, are most certainly US-centric. These include "Business," "Science," "Health," and others.
dukemeiser
Dec 22, 2003, 11:12 PM
Speed. It is terribly slow. That is the number one reason why I don't use it.
Flowbee
Dec 22, 2003, 11:39 PM
It has become *much* faster under Panther. Still, I only use it for movies.
GovornorPhatt
Dec 23, 2003, 11:24 AM
I pretty much just use it for movies. Thanks for the tip about the world news, MisterMe.
zim
Dec 23, 2003, 01:00 PM
I use it primarly for the dictionary. Sometimes I use the movies section. I don't really know what else they would do to sherlock, seems that apple left it up to people to develop stuff for it.
GovornorPhatt
Dec 23, 2003, 01:24 PM
Originally posted by zim
I use it primarly for the dictionary. Sometimes I use the movies section. I don't really know what else they would do to sherlock, seems that apple left it up to people to develop stuff for it.

I perfer to use The Omni Group's OmniDictonary (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidictionary/). It looks up the word using several sources, and it's free. And it's faster and has a cleaner interface than Sherlock.
Santiago
Dec 23, 2003, 01:44 PM
I use the dictionary (thesaurus, really) feature a lot, and the translation a fair amount as well. I almost never use any of the other stuff.
1macker1
Dec 23, 2003, 02:02 PM
I never understood what Sherlock was ment to do. I only use the dictionary.
GovornorPhatt
Dec 23, 2003, 02:49 PM
For a theasarus, I use Nissus Theausarus. Get it at http://www.nisus.com/thesaurus/. It comes with it's own Finder service!