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Power Search Tricks for Mac OS X Spotlight

While Microsoft Vista's built-in search mechanism might not be winning fans (see the extensive and quite critical commentary here: How to use Windows Vista search), Mac OS X has a splendid search system built-in to the operating system called Spotlight....

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Are there any cool Spotlight shortcuts?

I'm on a kick about learning all the sneaky and secret shortcuts buried in Mac OS X and have heard that there are quite a few in the Leopard version of Spotlight, the utility that lets you find files on...

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How can I stop Spotlight searching my email?

I like Spotlight well enough that I find myself using it a few times a week to help dig files out of my huge archives, but it always bugs me that it sees and indexes all my mail messages too....

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