Back in June I made the switch from Camino to Safari in preparation of MobileMe and the ability to sync my bookmarks across my iMac, PowerBook and iPod touch. I now cannot imagine using any other browser other than Safari. There have been a lot of improvements made since I had stopped using it a couple of years ago. One of the things I was looking forward to using again within Safari was Inquisitor.
Inquisitor is a bit like Spotlight for the web. It will autocomplete the words you type into the search box within Safari and you can add more search engines with customized keyboard shortcuts. I love the way it will bring up website suggestions which are more often correct than not, so that I can just click straight onto it and get where I’m going without having to go near the Google results page first. Inquisitor 3.2 was released today (thanks to Chris for the heads-up) with even more eye-candy and useful history indicators as you can see in the picture above.
I had purchased NewsFire RSS reader several years ago and as a paying customer one of the things I got for free was Inquisitor. Because I was having Safari niggles I didn’t get to spend a lot of time with Inquisitor before switching to Camino. I was a big fan of NewsFire up until NetsNewsWire went free. Because I now had two Macs and an iPod touch the NNW sync feature was too much to ignore, but I still think NewsFire is way better and beautifully designed than NNW.
I’m so pleased I moved back to Safari. I love the ability to [instantly and automatically] sync my bookmarks across my Macs and iPod touch which is something I’d be so missing out on if I’d stayed with Camino.
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14 Aug 08
12:32 am
I am really liking the visual overhaul with Inquisitor 3.2. It’s very sleek and, as you put it, sexy. And we Apple purists (such as me) are also glad you moved back to Safari
14 Aug 08
2:18 pm
I couldn’t use Safari without Inquisitor now. It’s the perfect browser accompaniment.
15 Aug 08
7:50 pm
Are you going to make a favicon?
I used to have Inquisitor on, but wondering about the compatibility with Safari 4 developer preview.
16 Aug 08
4:42 pm
Hi Kenneth. If I can make a suitable image look good as a teeny favicon then definitely.
17 Feb 09
8:39 pm
[...] For a while there have been Twitter extensions for other browsers out there but none, to my knowledge, for Safari on the Mac. That was until a few days ago when Safari140 was released. This new extension was created by the developer behind the elegant NewsFire and Inquisitor. [...]
09 Mar 09
3:10 pm
Inquisitor for the iPhone was released last week. Unfortunately it’s just for the US iTunes store currently. My friend Chris has written a piece about it…
http://blog.macgeekpro.net/2009/03/inquisitor-for-iphone/