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Spotlight

Iphone and ipad

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 not. its still there, you used to get to spotlight by swiping to the screen that was left of the Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years7 years ago
Mail.app

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 – Ive included sparrow in the list aswell so that others might learn its awesomeness) 1) mail.app features: imap, pop, exchange, Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years5 years ago
Ichat / messages

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 stored (but it wont delete the ones already saved) to disable chat history goto: imessage > preferences > messages untick Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years3 years ago
Osx

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. Textedit, keynote, pages, etc are all icloud enabled now, so when saving, the save dialog opens with iCloud. You can Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years5 years ago
Notification center

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 magnifying glass] scroll the page down. it will reveal an on/off radiobutton slider thing. turn notifications off.

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years8 years ago
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 to reindex either your whole machine, or a specific folder. force spotlight to reindex your drive using the terminal open Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years5 years ago
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 made by bob [or sent from bob] that match ‘final report’ There are other keywords you can use: name, date, Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years5 years ago
Spotlight

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 the following kind:pdf report this would find all the pdf files with the word ‘reports’ in the name here is Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
Spotlight

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 > general 3) make sure ‘google’ is your preferred search engine. 4) make sure the browser you want to use to Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
Spotlight

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 over the file and a ‘quicklook’ will appear. if its an mp3 or any other music file then you can Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
Spotlight

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 cmd + spacebar at the same time you will see the spotlight search appear in the top right hand corner, Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
Networking

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 your drive will always be available. Connect to your network drive (finder > go > connect to server) Enter the Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years5 years ago
Osx

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 something crashes! How to disable reportcrash osx launchtl can disable and re-enable crash reporting. To disable crash reporting: launchctl unload Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years3 years ago
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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 already indexed. The first thing you have to do is to make sure you connect your network drive to the Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years7 months ago
Mission control

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 apps on an ipad or iphone. Launchpad displays apps from your mac in a grid and is configurable. Launchpad shows Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years5 years ago
Formula 1

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 search to disable spotlight search suggestions and free up some resources on your machine. There are lots of scenarios where Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years7 months ago
Mission control

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 some resources and to stop the default widgets showing in my virtual desktop spaces while I was looking for another Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years5 years ago
Osx

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 Repair disk permissions applications > utilities > disk utility > repair permissions this command repairs disk permissions, this will fix Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years5 years ago
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