Freeware February: EasyFind

In my
restless quest for the perfect text editor, I
lamented the lack of a good full text search tool to find what's in your files after you've closed them. I lament no longer, because I stumbled onto a fantastic little gem from Devon Technologies, makers of Devon Think. EasyFind is a free alternative or supplement to Sherlock that will do a full context search without the need for indexing. This means no more frustration with incomplete, slow or corrupted indexes – just fire up EasyFind and away you go.

It's loaded with features, uses multithreading to perform very responsive searches or even multiple simultaneous searches, and integrates with the Services menu as well as supporting drag-and-drop from the clipboard. I fired up a search recently and hit an unexpected goldmine when EasyFind turned up a result from one of my
Adium chat logs. Way cool!

Did I mention any less than a hundred times that this app is free? :)