How to show spotlight in ios7
With the release of the ios7 developer preview come a lot of significant changes. one of the things ive noticed is that, at first, spotlight appears to be gone. its…
Mac osx email clients and sparrow alternatives
This post is a comparison of the various email clients available on mac osx (and some mac osx email clients and sparrow alternatives if you are looking for them -…
How to delete messages history in osx iMessage
This post will show you hoe to delete the history of your chat messages in osx iMessage. firstly, you should disable chat history, this will stop all chats from being…
How to change the default save location from icloud to my mac
How to change the default save location from icloud in osx mountain lion and newer. The default save location for icloud enabled apps is no longer on your own hard-drive.…
How to hide notifications in osx mountain lion notification center
This post will show you how to hide the notifications in osx mountain lion. open the notification center [click on the icon in the top right, next to the spotlight…
How to force spotlight to reindex your drive
This command will force spotlight to reindex your drive. It is useful if your spotlight index isnt returning results you know it should. This post will help you force spotlight…
Use spotlight to find email or documents by a specific person or author
You can use spotlight to find email or documents by a specific person. To do this you use the keyword 'author' author:bob final report Will bring up all the documents…
Use spotlight to find specific filetypes
You can search using spotlight to find items matching a specific filetype. eg. if you want to search within all pdf documents for a specific keyword you could search for…
Use spotlight to search google and display the results in google chrome
This will show you how to use spotlight to search google and display the results in chrome, firefox or any other browser 1) open safari 2) go to preferences >…
Preview files in spotlight
This will show you how to preview files in spotlight on osx. if you perform a search using spotlight you can preview all the files shown, simply hover the mouse…
Spotlight activation keyboard shortcut
This little keyboard shortcut will let you activate spotlight without having to click on the magnifying glass in the menubar in osx 1) press cmd + spacebar when you press…
Automount network drive on startup osx mac
Automount network drive on startup osx. This will show you how to automount a network drive when you login to osx lion. This method will persist through a reboot, so…
Disable reportcrash osx using launchctl – disable crash popups
Disable reportcrash osx. This post will show you how to disable the dialog box that appears when a program crashes in osx. Doing this will stop your system crawling when…
How to enable spotlight indexing on a network drive
This short blog post will show you how to enable spotlight indexing on a network drive. I have also added the commands to disable spotlight indexing on network drive that's…
Activate launchpad osx
This short blog will show you the ways to activate launchpad osx lion. Launchpad was introduced in osx as a way to launch applications similar to the way you launch…
Disable spotlight search
Spotlight on osx is a fantastic feature which will give you suggestions by searching your mac for documents and apps. This post will show you how to turn off spotlight…
How to disable dashboard osx snow leopard and newer
I dont use the osx widget dashboard. This post will show you how to disable dashboard osx. I had to look for a way to turn it off to save…
Mac osx maintenance – make your mac boot faster
Here are some tips to make your mac boot faster: Rotate your logs open terminal > type: sudo periodic daily weekly monthly this command runs the log rotate scripts, etc…