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Terminal Tips: Disable Spotlight in menu bar

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2008-09-23 10:00:00 by Cory Bohon in The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
...spotlight by pressing command + space? With this simple Terminal "hack," you can rid your precious menu bar of Spotlight for once and all. Just open Terminal.app (located in /Applications/Utilities/) and type the following command sudo chmod 0 /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app You will be required to authenticate as an...
 
Tags: tips, terminal tips, terminal tips sections, spotlight, terminal, menu bar, spotlight service, remove spotlight, precious menu bar
 
 
 
 
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TUAW Tip: exclude your Time Machine disk from Spotlight indexing

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2008-07-29 10:00:00 by Scott McNulty in The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
...Spotlight magnifying glass on my MacBook Pro had that little pulsating dot in it that means it is indexing something. That was odd, since I hadn't added any large files to my Mac, nor had I connected an external harddrive. Or did I As you might be able to guess from the picture above, Spotlight was dutifully trying to index my Time Capsule's...
 
Tags: time, time machine disk, time machine, time machine backups, time capsule, spotlight, spotlight dropdown menu, spotlight preferences, backups
 
 
 
 
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How to search within .zip files in Spotlight

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2008-04-13 09:05:25 by Ross McKillop in Simplehelp
...Spotlight to search within .zip files Download and open Ziplight . Inside the .dmg you should see a file named Ziplight.mdimporter click to enlarge Drag that file to your /Library/Spotlight folder if you want all users to be able to use this plugin, or ~/Library/Spotlight if you want only your account to be able to use it click to enlarge...
 
Tags: zip, zip files, files, spotlight, file named ziplight, inside, files inside, ziplight, enables spotlight
 
 
 
 
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Ziplight Spotlight Plugin 1.2 - Search ZIP files with Spotlight

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2008-01-29 00:00:00 by Editor in Softonic > Mac > Latest releases
...Spotlight, allowing the Mac search function to look within ZIP files to find archives, whether these be documents, photos, videos or anything else. That way, you won't have to unzip every compressed file you receive just to verify what is in it. To note though, Ziplight doesn't exactly search the contents of a Zip file but only looks for the...
 
Tags: files, zip files, spotlight, plugin, ziplight, file, zip file, files inside, real strength
 
 
 
 
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winLight 0.8 - A Windows version of the Spotlight search tool

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2008-03-20 00:00:00 by Editor in Softonic > Windows > Latest releases
...Spotlight clone for Windows that enables you to search for files, folders and apps in a much easier, more comfortable way. WinLight is slightly similar to the original Mac Spotlight tool but still has a long way to go To begin with, results are not classified into categories as the original Spotlight. Also, it doesn't show a drop-down menu...
 
Tags: windows, winlight, windows users, original spotlight, windows standard, recent switcher, apps, drop-down menu, mac taste
 
 
 
 
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SpotLook 1.3 - A GUI for Spotlight

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2008-04-25 00:00:00 by Editor in Softonic > Mac > Latest releases
...Spotlight tool. This GPL application shows your search results as tracks, which are divided by file type, in the left side of the interface. Tracks can be organized and stored in groups. SpotLook also offers two ways to search through time for Spotlight results, either via date boxes or via a slider bar (which I prefer Searches can be...
 
Tags: spotlight, spotlook, spotlight results, results, spotlight tool, tracks, interface, graphical interface, program
 
 
 
 
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AndroidGuys: Developer Spotlight Series #2

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2008-01-07 01:33:00 by AndroidGuys.com in AndroidGuys
...spotlight series and today we're showcasing a guy who goes by the name of "Living Sword". For those of you who missed the first edition of the series, you can check it out here . Living Sword runs the Android in Progress website for those of you interested in checking out another Android site The spotlight series is where we delve a little...
 
Tags: android, android site, spotlight series, series, android news, android easier, spotlight, developer, mobile
 
 
 
 
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Mac 101: organize Spotlight results

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2008-07-30 09:00:00 by Scott McNulty in The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
...Spotlight , OS X's integrated search that makes finding that needle in your hard drive's haystack as easy as pie (clearly, it doesn't protect against mixed metaphors You're familiar with the way Spotlight returns results, but did you know that you can change the order in which those results are shown? Read on to find out how (and why you...
 
Tags: results, spotlight, mac, spotlight returns results, spotlight results, mac users, preference panel, hard drive, installment brings
 
 
 
 
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Mac 101: Spotlight, your application-launching pal

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2008-08-12 16:15:00 by Michael Rose in The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
...Spotlight's ubiquitous search has changed the Mac OS X experience; quick and (mostly) reliable full-text indexing is now part of the landscape. It's not just for finding files, however; did you know that Spotlight makes a handy application launcher too You can launch most any application by hitting the Spotlight hotkey ( -Space by default),...
 
Tags: mac, application, spotlight, mac users, handy application launcher, spotlight hotkey, third-party launchers, hit return, power-user moxie
 
 
 
 
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Bring Spotlight To The Cloud WithPrecipitate

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2008-09-24 21:00:34 by Bob Rudis in The Apple Blog