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18 Dec 2009Your Mac may be the center of your world, holding vast amounts of applications, and files ranging from the last family get-together, to school homework, to important work presentations. Use Spotlight when you need to find something fast and easy.
In Snow Leopard, the Dictionary app opens a new window every time you look up a word in Spotlight or via the Services menu. This hint explains how to force Dictionary to use one window.
In: IT| Tips and Tricks| Tutorials
30 Sep 2009Filed under: Tips and tricks The Dictionary.app in Snow Leopard has been driving me nuts. If you use LaunchBar or Spotlight (or probably any other method of sending a word to Dictionary.app), it opens a new window. And then another. And then another. This might be handy if the window bar was updated to show the word that you had looked up, but it doesn’t, meaning that the extra windows are just clutter
In: IT| Mac Support| Tutorials
14 Sep 2009With Xsan 2.2, Spotlight supports two different levels of searching: File system search and Indexed search. File system search (FsSearch) – Searches against file system attributes are enabled but no indexed searching of content is performed
In: IT| Mac Support| Tutorials
26 Aug 2009After creating a volume with Spotlight enabled, or after enabling Spotlight on an Xsan volume, it make take several minutes for Spotlight to become active on the volume. During this time, if an MDC failover occurs, Spotlight will not activate properly. This article applies to Xsan v2.0 and later.
In: Mac Support| Tutorials
21 Aug 2009If Spotlight indexing is enabled on share points that are nested inside each other, Spotlight searches performed on client Macs may give inconsistent results.
In: Applications| General| IT| Software
27 Jul 2009Filed under: Software , Cool tools myTexts , a new app from MOApp , caught my attention recently. It’s another “distraction-free writing” app with some nice touches and a reasonable price tag. This genre of apps basically time-warps you back to the days of full-screen, menu-free, plain text word processing
Ted Landua has noticed an iPhone 3.0 bug where Spotlight searches turn up long-deleted e-mails. Here are the details.
The outside of the box said "Windows base machine or better", so I bought a Mac.
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