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The 325th most popular system tool on Mac OS X

Spotlight is a system-wide desktop search feature of Apple's Mac OS X operating system introduced in version 10.4. It is designed to allow the user to quickly locate a wide variety of items on the computer, including documents, pictures, music, applications, System Preferences, as well as specific words in documents. It also allows the user to narrow down searches with creation dates, modification dates, sizes, types and other attributes.

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  • Lord Banshie overlord
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    the best launcher I have used for any reason.

  • KyleLeslie fanatic
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    Great search tool. Find any document in seconds!

  • Preston Badeer overlord
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    The way searching should be! Another perfection of a common feature that hadn't be refined in ages. :)

  • johnmulnix fanatic
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    Not too bad.

  • marito81 overlord
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    spotlight is a godsend. windoze search is better than the stupid dog that it replaced, but it's still horrible. nice try though.

  • flakessp enthusiast
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    Виндоус посасывает потихонечку )

  • Hu_ fanatic

    This > Windows search

  • David Field fanatic
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    To be honest quicksilver is better.

  • Cookenstein expert
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    As a part of OSX, this tool was dreadfully overlooked by myself for a long time. I am amazed at how quickly I find most everything, with it. Just hit the command, spacebar keys and you are spotlighting..:)

  • Shirin expert
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    I don't know how I could find my stuff without it! Very useful and convenient.

  • desmondfuller expert
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    Meh. It is ok. I find that I never use it because quicksilver and pathfinder will do what I need.

  • tomsmith fanatic
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    Spotlight is a decent enough feature of OSX, however, I much prefer using Launchbar as it is much more powerful and does so much more for my productivity.

  • Madrid Lad overlord

    One of Mac best feature .. than Windows suck search service ..

  • MiLyAni fanatic
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    ببساطة يستطيع ان يبحث

  • rodrigomuniz fanatic
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    Every time I use Windows, I realize how good spotlight is.

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Website: apple.com
Developer: Apple Inc.
License: Bundled
Version: 10.5
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Usage: 3 hours, 56 minutes and 6 seconds
Usage since: 10 May 2007
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