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Encyclopedia > Spotlight (software)
Spotlight

Screenshot of Spotlight performing a normal search of Microsoft.
Developer: Apple Computer
OS: Mac OS X
Use: desktop search
Website: Apple.com/…/spotlight/

Spotlight is an as-you-type, system-wide desktop search feature found in Mac OS X v10.4. Using a metadata search engine, Spotlight is designed to locate a wide variety of items on the computer, including documents, pictures, music, applications, System Preference panes, as well as specific words in documents and PDFs. It allows the user to narrow down searches with creation dates, modification dates, sizes, types and other attributes. Image File history File links This is a screenshot of copyrighted Macintosh computer software. ... Image File history File links Spotlight_Search. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... Apple Inc. ... An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... Screenshot of performing Find as you type in Mozilla Firefox. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Mac OS X version 10. ... Metadata is data about data. ... Google search is the worlds most popular search engine. ... A BlueGene supercomputer cabinet. ... A document contains information. ... For images in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Images. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... Application software is a defined subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly to a task that the user wishes to perform. ... System Preferences is the application used by Mac OS X to set user preferences. ... PDF redirects here. ... A file attribute is a piece of data that describes or is associated with a computer file. ...


It was taken from a feature in the discontinued Copland project. Copland was a project at Apple Computer to create an updated version of the Macintosh operating system. ...


Spotlight builds a database of metadata keywords in files on the user's hard drive when a user logs in for the first time, as well as when devices such as external hard drives are connected to a system. This initial cataloguing may take some time, but the database is updated continuously in the background as files are modified. The cataloguing process also takes place when the system discovers that files on an external drive have been modified on a system not running 10.4, and the system will re-catalogue the volume from scratch. Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ...


Spotlight features a developer API (application program interface) that allows the creation of plug-ins, meaning that developers can add Spotlight search capabilities to their own programs, as well as enable Spotlight to index their own proprietary data file formats. A application programming interface (API) is the interface that a computer system, library or application provides in order to allow requests for services to be made of it by other computer programs, and/or to allow data to be exchanged between them. ... Proprietary indicates that a party, or proprietor, exercises private ownership, control or use over an item of property, usually to the exclusion of other parties. ...

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Tiger Features

Spotlight features the following functionality:

  • Instant indexing of new and modified files. The index is automatically updated instantly after each file-change.
  • Substring search. Words that start with the search term will be matched (prefix matching).
  • Boolean searches. Default searches AND operands. Use '|' for OR queries. Place '-' before an operand to perform a NOT query.

Leopard Features

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Software Development

Apple plans to introduce the following additional features in Leopard (according to the 2006 WWDC Stevenote and Apple's Leopard preview website): Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Image File history File links Nuvola_apps_kpager. ... Image File history File links Leopard_Spotlight_logo. ... Mac OS X v10. ... 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Worldwide Developers Conference is an annual trade show for Apple developers. ... Steve Jobs at WWDC 2006 Stevenote is a slang term for keynote speeches by Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs, generally given at Apple events such as the Macworld Expo, and the Apple Expo. ...

  • "Advanced search" and advanced Boolean operators (alluded to in the keynote and on the Leopard preview website).
  • Criterion selectors which currently only exist in the Finder search window in Tiger.
  • A new feature named Quick Look which will provide live previews of all file types in a graphic overlay.
  • The ability to search network volumes.
  • A Spotlight Dock icon (according to the onscreen demo at WWDC 2006).
  • Spotlight Server in Mac OS X Server.

Finder in column view Finder in icon view Finder in list view The Finder is the default application program used on the Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems that is responsible for the overall user-management of files, disks, network volumes and the launching of other applications. ... Mac OS X version 10. ... The Worldwide Developers Conference is an annual trade show for Apple developers. ... 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Spotlight Server is a new service deamon included in Mac OS X Server 10. ... Mac OS X Server is the server-oriented version of Apple Computers modern operating system, Mac OS X. It is based on the BSD-Unix-based operating system that Apple Computer acquired from NeXT Computer and which formed the basis of the current Mac OS X. The regular version...

Spotlight keywords

"kind"

The spotlight engine is used to power the Finder's search
The spotlight engine is used to power the Finder's search

The "kind" keyword may be used as a stand alone search (e.g. "kind:pdf") or as a modifier for a key word or phrase (e.g. "Steve Jobs kind:email") Image File history File links Download high resolution version (862x706, 122 KB) Summary A screenshot of Find in the Macintosh Finder, demonstrating grouping and how Spotlight can be utilized by various applications. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (862x706, 122 KB) Summary A screenshot of Find in the Macintosh Finder, demonstrating grouping and how Spotlight can be utilized by various applications. ... Finder in column view Finder in icon view Finder in list view The Finder is the default application program used on the Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems that is responsible for the overall user-management of files, disks, network volumes and the launching of other applications. ...

  • Applications: application(s), app(s)
  • Contacts: contact(s)
  • Folders: folder(s)
  • Email: email(s), mail message(s)
  • iCal Events: event(s)
  • iCal To Dos: todo(s), to do(s)
  • Images: image(s)
  • Movies: movie(s)
  • Music: music, audio
  • PDF: pdf(s)
  • Preferences: system preferences, preferences
  • Bookmarks: bookmark(s)
  • Fonts: font(s)
  • Presentations: presentation(s)

"date"

Spotlight performing a boolean search.

The "date" keyword may be used as a stand alone search (e.g. "date:today") or as modifer for a key word or phrase (e.g. "Steve Jobs date:today"). Accepted relative date values include "this month", "this week", "this year", "today", "yesterday", "tomorrow", "next month", "next week", and "next year". Image File history File links Screenshot of the Spotlight feature of Mac OS X v10. ... Image File history File links Screenshot of the Spotlight feature of Mac OS X v10. ...


See also

A Smart Folder is a special folder that dynamically contains content based on criterion that you specify. ... The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ... Beagle is a search tool for linux, enabling the user to search documents, chat logs, email and contact lists in a similar way to Google Desktop Search under Microsoft Windows, or Spotlight in Mac OS X. Beagle grew out of Dashboard, an early Mono based application for watching for and... Google Desktops logo Google Desktop is Googles version of the desktop search that runs locally on a Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP3+ PC. The desktop search program allows full text search of all of ones e-mail, computer files, music, photos, chat, and Web pages that...

External links

Apple Official Resources

PDF redirects here. ...

Others

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Spotlight (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (272 words)
Using a metadata search engine, Spotlight is designed to locate a wide variety of items on the computer, including documents, pictures, music, applications, System Preference panes, as well as specific words in documents and PDFs.
Spotlight builds a database of metadata keywords in files on the user's hard drive, initially when Mac OS 10.4 is installed (and it takes a LONG time!), and continuously in the background as files are updated.
Spotlight features a developer API (application program interface) that allows the creation of plug-ins, meaning that developers can add Spotlight search capabilities to their own programs in their own proprietary data file formats.
Encyclopedia: Spotlight (software) (760 words)
Software maintenance is one of the activities in software engineering, and is the process of enhancing and optimizing deployed software (software release), as well as remedying defects.
A software license is a type of proprietary or gratiuitious license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the user.
A software license is a type of proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the user.
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