Chapter 3. Spotlight
Every computer offers a way to find files. And every system offers several different ways to open them. But Spotlight, a star feature of OS X, combines these two functions in a way that’s so fast, so efficient, so spectacular, it reduces much of what you’ve read in the previous chapters to irrelevance.
That may sound like breathless hype, but wait till you try it. You’ll see.
In Yosemite, Spotlight has had quite a tune-up. The search box appears dead center on your screen (no longer in the upper right). And it now shows matches for your search word from a world of new places beyond the files on your Mac: on the Web, on Apple’s app and music stores, in the Maps app, in movie theaters, and so on. As a bonus, it’s also the world’s most flexible calculator. It can not only do math, but it can also convert things: kilometers to miles, Celsius to Fahrenheit, euros to dollars, and so on.
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