Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Bread Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Spotlight & Other Changes in Mavericks Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:49:50 -0800 Organization: lined up neatly Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <2013110215163944927-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <2013110216432269775-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <031120131250118772%YourName@YourISP.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1384451390 13243 127.0.0.1 (14 Nov 2013 17:49:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:49:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Unison/2.1.10 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:52237 On 2013-11-02 23:50:11 +0000, Your Name said: > Personally I've never seen a reason use Spotlight, but some people > (including some of the MacFormat magazine staff) love it and use it to > do everything - find document, launch applications, etc. I use it to launch apps constantly. I rarely use it to find a document, at least not via the spotlight from the main menu bar. I do use the search in the Finder windows all the time, since that makes it much easier to switch to a search by filename rather than by file contents. And, yes, that's still Spotlight. What I actually use the little menu bar magnifying glass search for most often, or perhaps second only to launching apps, is for calculations. Just start entering numbers and operations and it's the easy to use always there handy dandy desktop calculator. (It would be nice if there was a key to hit to copy the result of a calculation right to the clipboard, though. Is there one that I haven't noticed?)