They’re excellent ways to do a quick calculation, convert units, check the weather somewhere, look up an address – and, of course, waste time. By now, dozens more widgets – in essence, tiny Web pages – will have appeared on Apple’s site, and at sites all over the Net. Press a key combination (you can change this in Keyboard Preferences), and the main window darkens and a new set whips in. Tiger’s Spotlight is thus going to get better and better – and developers will make it so.ĭashboard is like the window-hiding function Exposé, with something extra underneath. Kudos to Flying Meat’s Voodoopad (whose Spotlight-enabled version came out this month – the first, I think, with this capability. For instance, the news aggregator NetNewsWire (doesn’t yet have such a plug-in, but Spotlight indexes the raw XML files, which appear in search results. System Preferences also has Spotlight built in, so if you can’t remember where the firewall setting lives, just start typing in the “Search” bar at the top right.Ĭrucially, Spotlight now is only a patch on what it will become, as developers write plug-ins for their applications to make their full content available to Spotlight. Can’t find an application? Downloaded something but can’t find it now? Spotlight will sniff it out, across your home directory or the computer (though not other users’ files.) It’s clever, and updates immediately: even as I wrote this piece it added it to a search I had up. You’ll discover wonders, as well as stuff you’d forgotten about. Spotlight is everything you’ve heard, and more. (You don’t need your mouse the keyboard shortcut is 1-Space. Security: more of it, spread all across the system.Īnd there in the top right-hand corner is the magnifying glass icon – Spotlight.Integration: everything fits much more tightly together.
Burn Folders in the Finder, offering a quick way to burn a disc.Smart Folders in the Finder, which can show any files matching over 100 criteria (Mail 2.0 has them too).Dashboard, where Widgets give you an extra work (or play) space.
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