[Ti] Sherlock is dead

[Pedro Vera]

I have been a mac user for about 15 months but the only thing I ever do 
with Sherlock is check movie times. Last night after it started working 
I decided to check the other Sherlock channels (both the ones provided 
by Apple and the third party ones) and there is just too much stuff I 
already do on my own thru Safari so there is no motivation for me to 
open one more program:

1. Internet - I Google, and Safari has this built-in. I don't remember 
the last time I actually typed Google's URL since I started using 
Safari. And the internet tab does not include Google. Even if I want to 
do a groups or image search, I go thru the normal search first.
2. Pictures - See above.
3. Stocks - Too conditioned to check Yahoo for stocks.
4. Movies - This is the one thing Sherlock does better. IMDB lookup 
from here would just rock, but I can do this by hand if I have to.
5. Phone Book - Rarely use it but it is handy how it has map 
functionality.
6. eBay - Neat and fast, but I am conditioned to use the browser (if 
half the default channels would feel like this then it would be worth 
to keep Sherlock open all day long)
7. Flights - Handy but in my new job I never travel.
8. Dictionary - Do a google search and a list of words from your search 
criteria will show up right above the search results. Clicking on any 
of these words will send you to a dictionary.
9. Translation - I use Google's language tools.
10. Apple Care - never use it.

Out of 10 default channels there is one I use on a weekly basis 
(Movies) and one I should be using on a daily basis only I am too 
conditioned to use the browser (eBay). 2 out of 10 is not worth it for 
me to even keep Sherlock in my dock, or to consider switching to 
Watson. Maybe these 10 services should be part of Safari, after all, 
they only work if you are online.

Pedro
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On Nov 3, 2003, at 1:40 AM, Michael Bigley wrote:

>> My Sherlock started dimming its channels one by one. Restarting the 
>> app did not work. Ditching the preferences file did not work. 
>> Ditching the whole Sherlock folder in the preferences folder did not 
>> work. I now have Sherlock without a single default channel. I tried 
>> going to a clean user account and I was having the same problem, so I 
>> doubt this was a problem with me ditching the Sherlock folder in the 
>> preferences.
>
> I noticed that the startup of Panther's Sherlock is blazing fast 
> compared to Jaguar, but nothing works now... Still sticking with 
> Watson. This is one thing that Apple has definitely half-a**ed. While 
> it has the potential to be cool, Watson is already cool and Sherlock 
> is sort of an embarrassment for Apple.
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