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Globe Trotter 1.3.0

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Background window for web searches. (was JSearch) Shareware ($5)

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Globe Trotter is a background window application to make life easier when you search on the internet. Hit your hotkey combination (command-shift-] by default) and the Globe Trotter window springs into action. Search among the 50 included search engines, or add your own.

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Version 1.3.0: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.

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Basset Software (developer) commented on 01 May 2005

Actually, please note that Globe Trotter is a 100% new program that happens to do the same thing as an older program of mine, called jSearch.

Functionality is similar, but the product itself is brand spanking new. It even has a different icon.

MacUpdate for some reason insists upon merging the Globe Trotter listing in with the older jSearch one.

[Version 1.0]

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MacUpdate Lon replied on 01 May 2005

And that reason would be that you posted to the review thread here for JSearch (earlier today), telling everyone not to download JSearch and instead download Globe Trotter as a replacement for JSearch. (It would have been better to advise us of the change before posting in the reviews)

So, rather than delete the old JSearch page and thereby lose your download count here at MU, we simply edited the JSearch page content to your new app, Globe Trotter.

And, after all, you did want us to delete the old JSearch page. It's gone.

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Joel Mueller commented on 01 May 2005

Please note that reviews after this comment are for "jSearch" which is what this Globe Trotter product used to be called.

[Version 1.0]

Anonymous reviewed on 19 Dec 2004

Why would anyone pay 50 cents for this when there's Butler (donationware, does this plus much, much more), not to mention other FREE utilities that do the exact same thing and nothing else.

[Version 1.2.1]

Basset Software (developer) commented on 21 Apr 2004

If you have any problems with no search sites showing up, please delete your preferences file. Quit jSearch, then go to your home directory, then Library, then Preferences and delete com.thomason.jsearch.plist. Then re-launch the program and you'll be fine.

Also, please note that the initial software launch can take a few moments as it is trying to cache the favicons from the various search sites. Depending upon the speed of your connection, this may take a while. Subsequent launches will be instantaneous, since it will have the icons cached.

[Version 1.0.4]

Anonymous reviewed on 20 Apr 2004

Doesn't launch for me either, or at least I can say that no jSearch icon shows up in the menu bar. Too bad since, at $2, jSearch would be much easier on the purse.

[Version 1.0.4]

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Basset Software (developer) replied on 21 Apr 2004

Now that's peculiar, since 1.0.4 was checked on 3 machines before its release. For the future - please email me directly if there are bugs or whatnot and I'll happily help to address them, but without further details, I may be stumped right now.

Jim_t_3 commented on 11 Apr 2004

A new, properly compiled, version of jSearch 1.0.3 is now available. It should run without any problems.

I'm sorry for any inconvenience or hassles this may have caused.

[Version 1.0.3]