Tag: spotlight

OS X’s Spotlight Overrides Mail.app Privacy Settings, Could Give Spammers A Leg Up

Spam and marketing emails often contain content—typically images served up from a remote Web server—that make it possible to see if recipients actually opened the message in...
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Flashlight Review: Plugin Collection Lets You Get More Out of Spotlight

With OS X Yosemite, Apple introduced a completely new Spotlight experience. Previously residing on the upper right-hand-side of the OS X menubar, the new Spotlight search pane lives...
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31 Days Of OS X Tips: Convert Meters To Feet Using Spotlight

In our modern, mostly-metric-unless-you-live-in-the-US world, unit conversions are a part of life. Inches to centimeters. Pounds to kilograms. Dollars to Euros. With Yosemite, you can...
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Hiding Folders From Spotlight Search

We all have files and folders on our Macs that we don’t want seen by others, whether it be personal financial documents or—cough—other things. One...
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Make The Finder Live Up To Its Name With These Searching Tricks

If you’re fairly new to the Mac, you might not know everything that the Finder’s search feature can do. After all, aside from the ubiquitous...
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Lion: Spotlight no longer makes you wait for indexing

Oh, you’ve been there. You know how I know? I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit. You’re in dire need of a...
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Get rid of Dictionary and Calculator results in your Spotlight searches

Did you know that you can get Dictionary results and Calculator results directly in the Spotlight search bar? Personally I love it, but I can...
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The Joule: An iPad Stand Worthy of the iPad

The iPad now has a worthy throne to sit upon: the Joule iPad stand. Crafted by Element Case, a company that creates unique custom cases for iPhones, the Joule is a sleek, elegant stand designed not only to hold your iPad but to complement its beauty.
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Do math in Spotlight

When Napoleon Dynamite went on about mad skills, he wasn’t referring to my math abilities. They approach null space pretty damn quickly. I blame my...
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Google officially releases Quick Search for the Mac

Google has released the Quick search application today. Search engines are currently working on next generation online searches applications, and it’s no surprise that they’ve...
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Inquisitor is Moving on up!

If you are not familar with Inquisitor, then you need to meet it. Inquisitor is an extension for Safari that allows for a “Spotlight” search...
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Apple leaving Macworld is a good thing for consumers

Everyone has been lamenting the fact that Apple has decided to call it quits on Macworld. No one really knows why, but I have a...
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Screen Sharing Bug

I found a bug with Leopard screen sharing, which might be a complete pain for some. If you have two Leopard machines, connect to one...
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Spotlight is a database and databases get broken

I think I should start a new blog category for things breaking on my mac. I’m probably the most unlucky mac user known to man....
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