Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Internet Tools, Apple, Interviews, Leopard
Inquisitor is updated for Leopard
Well slap my Safari and call me Susan-- it seems that the rumors of Inquisitor's demise (like so many things nowadays) were greatly exaggerated. Apple Reporter points out that Inquisitor, the Safari search plugin that everyone likes so much, has been "repackaged" for Leopard. Originally, we were told that the fact that InputManagers were being discontinued in the new OS would kill off Inquisitor and other Safari plugins that used them, but Inquisitor works.Of course, as we've already noted, noone knows for how long. But it seems that instead of deleting them whole hog, Apple just reined InputManagers in, and Inquisitor was able to stay in business. Good news.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
mingistech said 8:29PM on 11-27-2007
Inquisitor was updated for Leopard a quite a few weeks ago...
C'mon TUAW.... seriously. Sheesh.
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Tyrone Rugen said 8:26PM on 11-27-2007
Spin my nipple nuts and send me to Alaska!
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bryans said 10:19PM on 11-27-2007
Welcome to last month...
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Peter said 10:32PM on 11-27-2007
mingistech, bryans: Wow, you guys are so smart and "in-the-know." You should start a blog and compete with TUAW.
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Michael Rose said 10:44PM on 11-27-2007
*whap*
Yo, Susan -- whassup?
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Kristian Freeman said 10:54PM on 11-27-2007
http://www.applereporter.com/inquisitor-updated-for-leopard/
I'm slow too, I only blogged it yesterday.. ah well not all of us meticulously read VersionTracker and MacUpdate.
-Kristian Freeman
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Mike Buettner said 3:25PM on 11-28-2007
The only way I would have found it.
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roor said 12:03AM on 11-28-2007
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jo jo the dancer said 12:07AM on 11-28-2007
wow, barely any posts in the past week, and then you come up with this doozy.
great blog here at TUAW, but even the macalope seems to post more often ....
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Rob said 2:33AM on 11-28-2007
Susan.
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Ben said 3:08AM on 11-28-2007
Weeks old guys, c'mon....
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Simon Arch said 3:28AM on 11-28-2007
"Well slap my Safari and call me Susan"
How 'bout I call you Thrakkorzog instead?
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Mac Boy said 3:45AM on 11-28-2007
I finally broke down and ordered a Mac book, I find this very interesting to read. I am loving the Mac so far but still in the "getting comfortable" stage with using it.
I thought I would let you know about this really amusing post I found while trying to learn how to use the Leopard operating system
http://www.gadgethabit.com/2007/10/29/watch-out-bill-there%e2%80%99s-a-leopard-chasing-you/
Now back to learning about this Mac thing, so far I am loving it and can't believe I stuck around on the windows platform for so long.
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Rob said 4:43AM on 11-28-2007
Well Susan and all the fans of Susan, I installed Inquistor 3 and now I can't close windows with command-w. And I can't seem to uninstall it, so DON'T install it until this is fixed.
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wpm said 5:50AM on 12-01-2007
Rob, I had the same problem. The fix: delete taboo.bundle from /library/application support/SIMBL/Plugins.
Ben said 5:22AM on 11-28-2007
Must be a problem at your end Rob. Plenty of users have been using this version trouble-free for weeks...
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Chris E boy said 7:09AM on 11-28-2007
You might be interested to know that PicLens (another great input manager plugin) was also updated a while back for Leopard. These are the only two plugins I need for Safari.
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Geoff said 9:17AM on 11-28-2007
The reason I stopped using Inquisitor? When it offers suggestions as you type, it's actually Googling for each of those on the fly.
That means my browsing history (and the router logs at our conservative office) showed lots of Google searches for things like "Paris Hilton" and "Angelina Jolie's body" as a result of me typing "party favors" and "angels."
That was a little hard to figure out and explain to the IT Administrator ... once I got the problem nailed down, bye bye Inquisitor.
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random said 11:47AM on 11-28-2007
hm, i used to use inquisitor, but then i remembered that mozilla also gets paid from firefox search queries, apple from safari's, which means david is getting paid for people using inquisitor. Now if you're familiar with his 'business practices', aka taking an open-source project, bolt a new UI on it, and sell that, then giving the man money seems crazy to me. So i stopped using it, happily using the original search bar ;)
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caixapostal said 12:14PM on 11-28-2007
I'm a Acquisition user. When David Watanabe (the same guy behind Inquisitor and "the most hated developer in the Mac community") promised Acquisition licensees "full upgrades for life", I believed him and bought a copy. Now he upgraded Acquisition to version 2 and "warned" that since this is a major upgrade, none of the previous licenses would be good. I questioned him on the subject. He was totally rude ("stop wasting space on my blog"...) and said that promise was done before I bought my copy. I hope that Apple lock this idiot out.
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