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Spotlight

Spotlight is the system-wide desktop search feature built into Apple's OS X operating system... Created by Apple Inc.

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Spotlight is the system-wide desktop search feature built into Apple's OS X operating system since version 10.4 (Tiger). Backed by an index of all items and files on the system, it's designed to allow the user to quickly locate a wide variety of items on the computer, including documents, pictures, music, applications, and System Preferences. In addition, specific words in documents and in web pages in a web browser's history or bookmarks can be searched. It also allows the user to narrow down searches with file attributes (e.g. creation dates, modification dates, sizes, types) and, as of OS X 10.9, tags. Pre-installed plugins for the New Oxford American Dictionary and Calculator applications also included in OS X allow Spotlight to define words and evaluate mathematical expressions.... More Info »

Adapted from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_ (software)

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Program Launchers Extensible by Plugins/Extensions File preview File Searching Indexed search Add a feature

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File Management OS & Utilities

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Spotlight was added by dabbler in Apr 2014 and the latest update was made in Aug 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2018 There is a history of all activites on Spotlight in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Spotlight or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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