Available on Mac

The 363rd 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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  • 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 expert
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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.

  • Madridinho fanatic

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

  • MiLyAni expert
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    ببساطة يستطيع ان يبحث

  • hitoritavito expert
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    No Mac without spotlight hahaha...

  • nick2k3 expert
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    THE search engine...

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

  • UnMarkedPanic expert
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    nice concept and do work great.. but i heard its gets better with thrid party add on's shall try soon

  • gibron expert
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    I've abandoned QuickSilver and am now fully Spotlite (and happy with it)

  • jdfwarrior fanatic
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    By passed Spotlight at first and leaned more toward things like QuickSilver. I've now found my way back to using Spotlight and really like it. Simple and handy.

  • girlBASIC expert

    Love it!

  • filipe_mp expert
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    This is about Mac OS X and why it works fine.

  • jessemawhinney expert
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    who likes finding things in folders when you can just hit command spacebar and dont have to go digging. take note windows.

  • gbenoist fanatic
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    looking for something?

  • Annestasia expert
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    Amazing tool.

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Website: apple.com/
Developer: Apple Inc.
License: Bundled
Version: 10.5
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Usage: 2 hours, 39 minutes and 32 seconds
Usage since: 10 May 2007
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