Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’

Spotlight – Mac OS X’s fantastic system-wide search tool – helps find files, launch applications, make basic calculations, look up definitions, and more. Best of all, it can do all that without ever needing input from a mouse. Whether…

Although Leopard’s Spotlight search function is more powerful than the one found in Tiger, some of that power is hidden. Searching for OS X system files, for instance, can only be done when special parameters are set. Spotlight is configured out of the box to produce…

Did you know Spotlight can be used for more than just search in Mac OS X Leopard? That’s right, it’s a multi-purpose tool that can also handle basic mathematical calculations and offer quick access to word definitions. There are a variety of…

Ever wanted to grab the file path of an item in Finder so you could paste it somewhere for reference? There are a ton of twisted and backwards ways to do it — or you could try out this simple hint! This is a tip I just discovered today…

Spotlight allows you to search the files and folders on your Mac instantaneously. Like any computer database, however, it can become corrupt and inaccurate over time. No problem — it’s an easy fix. To give you an example of when Spotlight might…

If you’ve ever fumbled around a program trying to find a certain menu item, Leopard’s searchable Help section can be a real time-saver. Every once in a while I’m forced to use a Mac that’s running a version of OS X other than 10.5 Leopard…