iOS 101: Using Folders and Spotlight to Organize Your Home Screen

Mar. 30, 2011 - 3:43 PM PDT Mar. 30, 2011 - 3:43 PM PDT

Folders seem to be the most underused part of iOS 4.2 (or earlier for the iPhone). I’m simply amazed whenever I see someone’s home screen littered with single icons. Here’s how to get started with folders, and some tips for how best to use them. Read more »

Tips and Tricks: Finder

By Josh Asch

Sep. 14, 2010 - 9:26 AM PDT Sep. 14, 2010 - 9:26 AM PDT

Welcome to another installment of Tips and Tricks. These articles aim to teach you some handy things you might not know about your Apple stuff. Let’s continue the series by looking at Finder. Read more »

The Smart Mac: Smart Folders in OS X

By Christopher Ryan

Jan. 13, 2010 - 10:00 AM PDT Jan. 13, 2010 - 10:00 AM PDT

Mac OS X offers a computing experience that, according to many, is still unparalleled by its competitors. Built on a rock solid UNIX foundation and continually adding refinements that make interaction easier, OS X has a lot of powerful functionality that many users were unaware existed. […] Read more »

reMail: Email Search for the iPhone

By Nancy Nally

Aug. 13, 2009 - 11:00 AM PDT Aug. 13, 2009 - 11:00 AM PDT

A new iPhone app called reMail gives iPhone users the email archive search functionality available in applications like Gmail and Outlook. reMail is priced at $4.99 until September 1st ($9.99 after that date). The creator of reMail is Gabor Cselle, who has previously worked on Gmail […] Read more »

SpotInside: A Solid Spotlight Alternative

By Charles Moore

Jul. 28, 2009 - 4:00 PM PDT Jul. 28, 2009 - 4:00 PM PDT

I have a love-hate relationship with Spotlight, OS X’s convenient and useful, but immensely frustrating search utility. Apple introduced Spotlight with OS X 10.4 Tiger, and tweaked it considerably in OS 10.5 Leopard. Having a search engine ready and waiting all the time is seductive, and […] Read more »

Apple Puts Spotlight on Indie Acts in iTunes

By Darrell Etherington

Feb. 25, 2009 - 3:37 PM PDT Feb. 25, 2009 - 3:37 PM PDT

This must be “Update iTunes Content” week at Cupertino or something, because Apple keeps making changes to the music player. First it introduced iTunes Pass, which provides superfans with heaps of exclusive content released on a staggered schedule over a brief subscription period, and now it’s […] Read more »

Find Any File: Classic Mac Filename Searches Return to OS X

By Charles Moore

Feb. 2, 2009 - 1:00 PM PDT Feb. 2, 2009 - 1:00 PM PDT

I quickly became addicted to Spotlight when I upgraded to Tiger back in 2005, but why, I wondered, did Apple have to ruin easy filename searches in the Tiger Find dialog, after just finally getting them working right in Panther? Of course you can run filename […] Read more »

5 Things You Never Knew About Spotlight

By Lisa Hoover

Dec. 3, 2008 - 4:00 PM PDT Dec. 3, 2008 - 4:00 PM PDT

Many people use Quicksilver as a replacement for Spotlight, but if you’re happy with the native file search and app launcher in Mac OS X, then why change? You probably know that you can access Spotlight quickly with the Command-spacebar keyboard shortcut, but here are a […] Read more »

Bring Spotlight To The Cloud With Precipitate

By Bob Rudis

Sep. 24, 2008 - 3:00 PM PDT Sep. 24, 2008 - 3:00 PM PDT

If you are a heavy user of either Google Bookmarks or Google Docs, you now have a way of searching your content via the OS X built-in Spotlight tool. Written by Stuart Morgan and available for free (open source, in fact!), this simple application makes a […] Read more »

Tagging Practices

By Nick Santilli

Feb. 9, 2006 - 12:22 PM PDT Feb. 9, 2006 - 12:22 PM PDT

My man Raz asked some questions about how to tag your files for use with Spotlight. I don’t believe there’s truly a right or wrong way to do it. (Except for the way I do it. That way being the right one of course…) Here are […] Read more »

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