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Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

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Using Spotlight,<br />

Exposé, Spaces,<br />

and Dashboard<br />

<strong>Leopard</strong> has a few additional interface features that are definitely worth mentioning that<br />

haven’t been covered yet in other chapters:<br />

• Spotlight<br />

• Exposé<br />

• Spaces<br />

• Dashboard<br />

Searching with Spotlight<br />

Spotlight, which was introduced in Tiger (<strong>Mac</strong> <strong>OS</strong> X 10.4), is a system-wide search tool that<br />

locates any items on your computer that match your search criteria. In <strong>Leopard</strong>, Spotlight<br />

improves upon and adds a number of features, including the ability to save searches as smart<br />

folders that are easily accessed from within Spotlight and the ability to search computers on your<br />

network (provided they allow such access). In <strong>Leopard</strong>, Spotlight becomes a seamless, integral<br />

part of how you work with your system.<br />

NOTE When you first install <strong>Leopard</strong>, Spotlight is not immediately available. Before Spotlight<br />

is ready, it must index your entire system. This can take several hours to complete. While Spotlight<br />

is indexing, your hard drive will spin a lot, your system will get hot, and the computer’s fan<br />

(if it has one) will probably start running full speed. Oh, yeah, there will also be a pulsing black<br />

dot inside Spotlight’s magnifying glass icon in the upper-right corner of the menu bar that indicates<br />

Spotlight is indexing.<br />

Performing a Basic Search in Spotlight<br />

To perform a Spotlight search, you can either<br />

click the magnifying glass in the upper-right corner<br />

of your screen or press Cmd+spacebar. This<br />

will open a simple drop-down text field for you<br />

to type your search (Figure 3-1). As you start to<br />

type, the drop-down field will expand to reveal<br />

CHAPTER<br />

3<br />

Figure 3-1. Spotlight’s search field<br />

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