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Watson is dead? Sherlock alternatives?
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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So the great internet tool Watson is going to be dead as of October 5th. Anyone know of some good Sherlock plugins to replace the Watson features?
I personally would love to get a plugin for TV listings. Point me in the right direction.
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dont worry. my friend humphrey told me he is making a new superior program called angela lansbury.
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Originally posted by hubert:
dont worry. my friend humphrey told me he is making a new superior program called angela lansbury.
How about MouseDetective? Although you'd worry about getting sued by Disney, I guess... 
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Join Date: May 2002
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Watson won't be totally dead. The company which has bought the Watson technology will create a similar application and that application will be available for PC AND Mac.
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Sigh... so many new programs so little time.
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Actually I believe that the new app will merely be a continuation of Watson. It will still run on OS X, will be ported to other platform(s), it just _may_ not have the Watson name or Karelia support.
IE. It will become more mainstream because of its big developer support
Anything BUT dead and definitely NOT rewritten
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The empty can rattles the loudest
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Sun looks to have bought Watson.
This means the app will cease to be cool burdened by lowest common denominator code and based on Java. No thanks.
Hopefully Apple's Sherlock teams isn't asleep at the wheel.
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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where are some good places to add more items to sherlock? i tried a few of the sites that comes with sherlock .. but when i try to load them i just get (null) at the top or something.
anyone?
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Isn�t it obvious that both Sherlock and Watson are dead? Sherlock killed Watson and Dashboard killed Sherlock. Another mystery solved! 
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Originally posted by murk:
Isn�t it obvious that both Sherlock and Watson are dead? Sherlock killed Watson and Dashboard killed Sherlock. Another mystery solved!
Yes after reading Gruber's article about Konfabulator versus Dashboard I immediately understood that Sherlock could easily be replaced with Gadgets that do the same thing since it's based on webkit. Little mini webpages that can contain anything that is available on the net.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Wow Dashboard is gona kill two things at once! And still look ugly!
By the way I tried using sherlock again the other day... I remember watching the keynote when Jobs did it and was like... well that looks... kinda cool... I guess... in practice... it's dumb. I can't find anything I actually care about on it... the only useful thing I might use it for would be google... and... I have google for searching google...
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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Originally posted by Superchicken:
I tried using sherlock again the other day... I remember watching the keynote when Jobs did it and was like... well that looks... kinda cool... I guess... in practice... it's dumb. I can't find anything I actually care about on it... the only useful thing I might use it for would be google... and... I have google for searching google...
You know, I thought this too at first....
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(1) with all the widgets out there, you'll be able to make it "look" like pretty much anything you want.
(2) It's a single key, customizable, screen that can contain anything that currently in Sherlock, Watson, anything in your menu bar (Meteorologist, etc.), plus any of those system utilities you open all the time (calculator, OmniDictionary, Nisus Thesaurus, activity monitor (at least the floating window things), Stickies). AND then it all goes away in a single keystroke. This could clear out the dock and menu bar of for many of us, while still keeping those things very handy.
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Originally posted by Superchicken:
By the way I tried using sherlock again the other day... I remember watching the keynote when Jobs did it and was like... well that looks... kinda cool... I guess... in practice... it's dumb. I can't find anything I actually care about on it... the only useful thing I might use it for would be google... and... I have google for searching google...
I like Sherlock - I use the Phone Book module quite a bit, and use the Translation module occasionally as well. I agree that it would be better as a Dashboard service, though.
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