Sherlock for what good it was, became overshadowed completely by the verb it became.
I used both Sherlock and Watson simultaneously, liked both. I think both were at an amazing crossroads when high bandwidth fast internet in a pre-Google soup of multiple search engines created magic. With a single query you got lightning fast results from multiple engines minimal no cruft.
Sherlock’s major difference? Its integration with Safari?
@jamesthomson You know how many times per day I use PCalc in the Mac menu bar? Like…50. Pretty sure the price I paid for PCalc has paid for itself dozens of times over already. Pfft. Bring on the iPad calculator.
@uliwitness@eabowers Yes, you can get most of it there I think - you can duplicate an existing layout to the widget section, though some things like conversions, constants, and functions won't work, because I can't show another window.
@jamesthomson@eabowers Ah, somehow I completely overlooked the “layout" popup in widget settings. Also, having widget layouts under "Layout” but they switch on that layout for the app was also distracting me.
@bi11jon That's because they were good people who ran that team, and I think they appreciated the efforts I made. It was the weekend before a MacWorld keynote, and I added brushed metal to the app at the last minute.
@jamesthomson I know about Sherlock and Sherlocking, but Watson, apart from the obvious book character reference … well, this is what ”Watson” is to me, the Dr Watson application in Windows 3.10, except Win2k is depicted here (it survived until at least Windows 7, maybe even longer than that): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.
Making things even more confusing, it used to be called Sherlock in the past, the Wikipedia article claims 😅
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