Comments on: Sherlock: The Forgotten App

By: Manny

Manny — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:15:31 +0000

I’m running an Intel iMAC with 10.4.10. I have Sherlock, but it doesn’t work. It shows all the channels, including the Movies channel, but they are greyed out. Nothing works. :(

By: Petra

Petra — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:12:35 +0000

The Flight-channel doesnt work at all! At least not in Holland

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:57:33 +0000

I think the Thesaurus is a nice supplement to the dictionary-widget…

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:18:26 +0000

You know, depsite its flaws, there are a lot of good things still happening with Sherlock. The movies channel and Applecare channels are extremely useful.

I think if it were updated and perhaps featured more prominantely within Mac it would get a lot more use. As a home or office networking tool alone I think it has a lot of potential.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:02:35 +0000

I agree, it is an underworked application that had so much to offer. I was just thinking the same a little while ago.

Although I don’t use as much as I did in the past, I realized it was never really updated or worked.

Too bad, though I am sure the good folks at Apple found ways of using different apps to do the same thing. I guess what we really need is a convergent portale that is still cool to use. Never ending work.

Still on 10.3.9 also…

By: Richard Hather

Richard Hather — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:14:10 +0000

I made the upgrade at work from a Dual G4 Running Panther to a ProMac running Tiger. We are do a lot of searching over a network and from experience, Sherlock searched much faster over the network then spotlight does. I cant wait to see what imporvements Leopard has instore for Spotlight and if the network searching has been vastly improved.

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:33:09 +0000

It’s also great for the translation of longer paragraphs. The translation widget is a joke.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:49:03 +0000

Sherlock is superb for accessing the Apple knowlegde base (Applecare)! Give it a try.

By: G-Man

G-Man — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:14:15 +0000

Jeez you guys, are you sure you know what you’re talking about? I’m running a brand new Intel Mac with 10.4.8 and Sherlock is right here and it runs fine – it didn’t go nowhere, partners…

By: Pope

Pope — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:58:36 +0000

Sherlock does not work anymore as of 10.4.8
It was replaced by Spotlight and Dashboard.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:01:41 +0000

John Tyler:

I’m using 10.4 on my Intel iMac… and I’ve never seen Sherlock anywhere :s
Only reason I know that Sherlock exists is because I used it years ago at school. Don’t know why I haven’t got it.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:56:27 +0000

This may be specific to my install, but on my intel iMac (late 2006) Sherlock (3.6.2 (179)) doesn’t even have a “Movie” channel, did they remove the most useful feature in the latest revision?

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:01:11 +0000

An oldie but goodie, thats still in frequent use :

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050310143412616

NB : I’m not sure it still works in Sherlock on 10.4 ( I’m still on 10.3.9 )

By: Villert

Villert — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:10:20 +0000

Sherlock is extremely slow….. and I am still using Watson on a daily basis.

By: John Tyler

John Tyler — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:55:06 +0000

You can try Sherlock if you want, just don’t get used to it. A little birdie told me that Sherlock has been completely dropped from Leopard…