This week I evaluated several find utilities, all hacks. They are:
FindHack by Florent Pillet replaces the built-in find interface with a more robust and full-featured interface. When active, it is automatically launched when the Find silkscreen button is tapped.
FindHack allows you to use three types of wildcards in your searches. You can use an asterisk (*) before, after, or within a string to allow an unspecified number of characters in that position. You can use a question mark (?) or a period (.) before, after, or within a string to represent a single unknown character.
FindHack remembers your last six searches. They will popup when you tap the arrow to the right of the find string textbox. Alternately, up to four of the six slots can hold permanent searches. You can define these preferred searches from within HackMaster by tapping on the plus sign next to FindHack.
FindHack also lets you choose the scope of your search. You can search all applications, the built-in applications, or just the current application.
FindHack is shareware and costs $6.
Popup Find by Benc Software Productions integrates with the built-in Find application and uses the same interface. However, the search results of the built-in applications will be listed as Popup Find - Tapping on any hit under one of these special Popup Find listings launches a special viewer showing that specific MemoPad, AddressBook, ToDo, Expense, or Mail entry. You can close the viewer and return to the previous application, maintaining its state. However, you can also follow a link to the built-in application for that data if you need to edit it. If you do launch the built-in application, you will not maintain the state of the previous application. Popup Find does not support wildcards, maintain a search history, or allow pre-defined searches. It only supports the built-in applications, although since it is an add-in to the built-in Find application rather than a replacement, your search will still generate hits from other applications. The results from these applications will look and act like results from the built-in Find application (since in fact, that's what they are).
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