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	Apple - Mac OS X - Spotlight
		Spotlight for Mac OS X Tiger lets you blaze through your files and applications and see results as soon as you type the very first letter.
		When you search via Spotlight, you’re actually accessing a comprehensive, constantly updated index that sees all the metadata inside supported files — the “what, when and who” of every piece of information saved on your Mac — including the kind of content, the author, edit history, format, size and many more details.
		Spotlight returns documents she authored or edited, images she emailed, messages she wrote (and messages you sent to her) and her contact information.
	www.apple.com /macosx/features/spotlight (965 words)

	Working with Spotlight
		The Spotlight Store is a file system-level database that holds all of the meta-data attributes about the files, as well as an index of their contents, on a file system.
		Since the core of Spotlight lives at the very lowest levels of the operating system, it is only natural that there are some command-line tools for power-users to work with file system meta-data and perform queries.
		And, Apple is the first to bring you this kind of functionality built into the operating system.
	developer.apple.com /macosx/tiger/spotlight.html (2382 words)

	Meta: Spotlight’s Bigger Brother at The Apple Blog
		Spotlight is a fantastic addition to OS X, but as many will probably agree, has much growing up to do.
		The fact is, Spotlight, MoRU, and Meta are really not fighting for the same customers, they are three different solutions to desktop searching, aimed at satisfying the needs of three different groups of users.
		Spotlight itself satisfies the needs of most users, in that most users search rarely, and when they do, they just want to throw down some words they think might be in their files.
	theappleblog.com /2006/06/13/meta-spotlights-bigger-brother (1628 words)

	TMO Scoop - Apple Spotlight Patent Reveals 3-Year Head Start on Microsoft [UPDATED] \|\| The Mac Observer
		A patent granted to Apple January 25th, 2005 appears to reveal that Apple had a multiyear head start on Microsoft for Spotlight, the Apple search technology that will be released later this year in Tiger.
		Many had seen Spotlight as a quickly developed, me-too technology intended to compete with Microsoft's long-delayed Longhorn update to Windows, but the patent application shows that Apple began working on the technology in January of 2000, years before Longhorn was announced.
		Spotlight, on the other hand, returns result immediately as the term is being entered.
	www.macobserver.com /article/2005/01/27.10.shtml (4257 words)

	Apple OS X Tiger
		Spotlight is Apple's new lightning fast way for users to find virtually anything stored on their Mac.
		Because Spotlight technology is built right into the core of the operating system, it automatically updates results instantly whenever files change and enables developers to incorporate Spotlight technology into their applications.
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	www.user-groups.net /apple/tiger_1.html (1482 words)

	A Glimpse at Apple’s OS X 10.5 Leopard? at hrmpf.com
		Some Apple patents for Spotlight have recently surfaced and they show sides of the Finder we haven’t seen before.
		Apple is expected to release the next version of OS X - 10.5 “Leopard” by the end of 2006 or early 2007.
		Little information has leaked about Leopard but rumours suggest that the Finder of OS X 10.5 (code named ‘Chardonnay’) is going to depend heavily on Spotlight (Apple’s metadata and search tool).
	hrmpf.com /wordpress/65/a-glimpse-at-apples-os-x-105-leopard (117 words)

	Apple - Remote Desktop 3
		Apple Remote Desktop is the best way to manage the Mac computers on your network.
		Apple Remote Desktop 3, the award-winning desktop management system for Mac OS X has more than 50 new features that deliver improvements in software distribution, asset management, and remote assistance.
		Apple Remote Desktop 3 is a Universal application, which means it runs natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Mac computers.
	www.apple.com /remotedesktop (700 words)

	Apple, Chardonnay, Leopard and Spotlight at hrmpf.com
		These patent applications have not be formally assigned to Apple in the USPTO- this is unusual (though they do appear to be assigned to Apple in the European pat office) and possibly an effort to reduce scrutiny?.
		The Spotlight UI is odd, clumsy, limiting, and often downright user-hostile.
		4 Responses to “Apple, Chardonnay, Leopard and Spotlight”
	hrmpf.com /wordpress/60/apple-chardonnay-leopard-and-spotlight (775 words)

	APPLE MACINTOSH
		Apple Computer got hit by a double whammy this week when a security researcher publicized a pair of flaws in Mac OS X that when used together could let attackers place a malicious program on a Mac and then run the file.
		Apple even took Microsoft to court in the late 1980s but the case collapsed when it was shown that Apple had itself copied the design from Xerox PARC.
		Apple released a low-cost laser printer - also invented at Xerox PARC - and the first piece of publishing software and overnight the desktop revolution was born.
	www.killaracomputers.com /gpage3.html (5420 words)

	MacNN \| Apple Spotlight, WebObjects patents?
		In what may be a reference to Apple's Spotlight technology -- introduced as a revolutionary method of searching within Mac OS X Tiger -- the filing describes "systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata," which it says can be created by several different software applications.
		Apple also said that the type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file, indicating that the stored data is dependent on content type.
		Alluding to many of the features of currently implemented Spotlight search technology, the filing also describes the results and their specific formatting, offering examples and alternatives for display which include column views, icon views, grouping, limited display of results, and a combined icon and list view for different portions of the results.
	www.macnn.com /articles/06/08/17/more.apple.patent.filings (1050 words)

	Apple News
		Apple’s announcement that it has cut $200 off the price of the 8 Gb iPhone model has sparked speculation that customers who paid full price for the product may storm the retail stores seeking refunds.
		Apple CEO Steve Jobs used the invite-only event to revamp its iPod line-up with an iPod shuffle refresh, new "phatty" iPod nano, larger capacity iPod classics, and a new iPod touch line based on the iPhone platform.
		Apple early Thursday morning released iTunes 7.4, bringing the ability to sync music (and other items) with the new iPod nano (third generation), iPod classic, and iPod touch.
	www.applestuff.info (1169 words)

	W6: Spotlight On Apple (Updated) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Even if I were to unfairly compare Microsoft’s so-far-vaporware “Longhorn” with Apple’s shipping operating system, Apple certainly deserves major kudos for putting products onto the market while their competitors are still in development.
		Apple will certainly beat Microsoft to market, but I think that more is required to earn the labels “innovative” and “revolutionary” than just having a faster turnaround in development.
		I was certain that ‘devotee’ should have at least one diacritical mark somewhere near the end of the word, but Bartleby convinced me to go with the an unaccented representation of the word.
	w6daily.winn.com /001856.html (770 words)

	Apple's Spotlight -- Friday, July 16, 2004
		“Spotlight” is much more than just the visible UI shown during Jobs’s keynote: the vibrant blue search field in the top-right corner of the screen, and accompanying search results window.
		One implication of Spotlight’s file-centricity is that its ability to search “email” might not apply to clients other than Apple Mail — it’s the fact that the new Tiger version of Mail stores each message as a separate file that allows Spotlight to effectively return individual mail messages as search results.
		Spotlight is a wonderful technology that Mac users (including me) look forward to.
	www.emergic.org /archives/indi/009327.php (296 words)

	Spotlight (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Using a metadata search engine, Spotlight is designed to locate a wide variety of items on the computer, including documents, pictures, music, applications, System Preference panes, as well as specific words in documents and PDFs.
		Spotlight builds a database of metadata keywords in files on the user's hard drive when a user logs in for the first time, as well as when devices such as external hard drives are connected to a system.
		Spotlight features a developer API (application program interface) that allows the creation of plug-ins, meaning that developers can add Spotlight search capabilities to their own programs, as well as enable Spotlight to index their own proprietary data file formats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spotlight_(software) (542 words)

	Daring Fireball: Spotlight on Spotlight
		Despite the fact that HFS+ was both the default and strongly recommended by Apple, numerous Unix nerds took it upon themselves to format their startup volumes using UFS.
		Spotlight’s ability to show results from Apple Mail archives on Jobs’ machine was tantamount to a sham.
		Spotlight’s full-text search is outsourced to SearchKit, which will be considerably faster in Tiger (“3x indexing, 20x incremental search” over Panther).
	daringfireball.net /2004/07/spotlight_on_spotlight (1009 words)

	C\|Net Aims Apple's Spotlight \|\| The Mac Observer
		Apple's new Spotlight search functionality will be one of the major features of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, CNet says, in a story that offers a renewed overview of the technology.
		It will be interesting to see if Spotlight is built to follow and respect this, so that you and other users all have complete access to your own data, and no access to any other user's data.
		Spotlight destroys this security by copying a significant amount of this data to a "hidden" directory at the root level.
	www.macobserver.com /article/2004/11/11.1.shtml (1333 words)

	CRM News: Software: Apple Shines Spotlight on Future of Desktop Search
		Granted, its new desktop search engine technology, Spotlight, will be limited to personal computers running the new version of OS X, 10.4, also known as Tiger.
		However, Spotlight's integrated approach to desktop searching, compared to the "bolted on" tack taken in the Windows world, could enrich computing for years to come.
		Whether or not that's an advantage or disadvantage for Spotlight is a matter of perspective, Gartenberg said.
	www.crmbuyer.com /story/42513.html (870 words)

	Spotlight Comments using Quicksilver at The Apple Blog
		Spotlight has made itself a little home in my workflow by including Spotlight Comments.
		For me, Spotlight Comments represent a way to tag my files a la Flickr, del.icio.us, etc.
		Personally I have just killed Spotlight as I was no longer able to play iTunes without getting stutters because mds was indexing my drive, again, and sucking all processor power out of my ibook.
	theappleblog.com /2005/05/16/spotlight-comments-using-quicksilver (1636 words)

	Apple - Downloads - Mac OS X - Spotlight Plugins
		Pomfort DPX and Cineon Spotlight Plug-in 1.2
		Tarimporter 1.2.3 10/23/2006 A Spotlight plug-in that allow fast searches in UNIX archive files.
		Mac OS X and Widget developers submit your work to Apple.
	www.apple.com /downloads/macosx/spotlight (349 words)

	Apple centers Spotlight on desktop search \| Tech News on ZDNet
		Specifically, Jobs said Apple has a superior vantage point from which to build in technology for finding files buried on the operating system, compared with third-party application makers launching products for the same purpose.
		Spotlight is an indexing engine that tracks every file as it is created, opened or changed, copied or deleted.
		By constantly tracking all of those files, as well as their complete contents, Spotlight can then quickly and powerfully search the files at a moment's notice.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9588_22-5532367.html (815 words)

	Apple Spotlight desktop search » Online Marketing Blog
		Just so everyone knows, Spotlight was introduced in July of 2004 before all the other desktop searches.
		Once Apple and Microsoft have their respective desktop search apps built into their Operating Systems, this game is up.
		Now that Apple and Microsoft are moving to address this oversight, well, goodnight Vienna.
	www.toprankblog.com /2005/01/apple-spotlight-desktop-search (296 words)

	AppleInsider \| Inside Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger": Overview
		On Monday, Apple Computer supplied 3,500 of its developers with a preview copy of the company's next-generation operating system, Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger." Sources close to the company were able to obtain a copy of the software and have been previewing the new system over the last few days.
		One of the first facts to note is that Tiger was distributed on a single Apple DVD disc, and was not available to developers on CD.
		Apple's new "Spotlight" search technology is by far Tiger's most dominant feature, and it can be accessed from almost every corner of the system, literally.
	www.appleinsider.com /article.php?id=527 (1035 words)

	seattlepi.com Microsoft Blog: MSN vs. Apple 'Spotlight'
		So unless you are suggesting that either Apple or Google stole proprietary, original search algorithms from MS (which would be huge news) it would be extremely difficult to say that one group of developers in such a vast and ancient field is "copying" another conceptually.
		Apple is saying to its developers "Hey we're going to provide gorgeous API's that let anyone build an application with richer integration with search than anything Microsoft will ever be able to do with their own Office products on Windows.
		Apple won't even sell a 2 button mouse even though the OS supports it and would make it easier to use and I beleive it is strictly because of Steve Jobs ego that they wont and it would essentially be him saying yeah its a good idea.
	blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com /microsoft/archives/003962.html (8826 words)

	Apple Trains Spotlight on 'Jaguar' OS
		His speech came just hours after Apple announced the 10.2 "Jaguar" Server, the upgrade of the Mac OS X Server software that combines Unix with Mac.
		In his presentation, the Apple CEO also unveiled the new iMac, with a 17 inch landscape display (1440 x 900 pixels).
		Jobs was greeted with loud applause from the Mac faithful with another announcement that Apple would partner with MusicMatch to build and ship an iPod for Windows digital media device.
	www.internetnews.com /infra/article.php/1428451 (956 words)

	Apple Matters \| Spotlight Inconsistencies
		Interface consistency is a favorite bugbear of Hadley’s, so Spotlight is going to make him turn in his designer’s club ticket.
		To access Spotlight interface #2, you click on Show All in #1 which brings up a more comprehensive window of our results with simple filtering tools.
		Spotlight, despite these interface inconsistencies and shortcomings, is a significant time saver, but it does slow you down having to know which interface to use and how to use it.
	applematters.com /index.php/section/comments/spotlight_inconsistencies (791 words)

	Macsimum News - Apple’s Spotlight patent revealed
		That also just happens to support Ed Zander’sstatement that it was only a matter of time before Apple would build a smart phone of their own.
		Spotlight is going beyond the desktop and will eventually be utilized on other wireless mobile devices – plain and simple.
		Spotlight will, in some form or another, eventually find it’s way to other mobile devices and/or platforms, period.
	www.macsimumnews.com /index.php/archive/b (1255 words)

	The future of Spotlight and OS X (kottke.org)
		Bill Brown has uncovered some interesting Slashdot comments by an Apple employee about Spotlight and future Apple's future plans.
		At any time, you can type "meeting in San Jose" into Spotlight, and it'll take you right to the angle and track on which your co-worker Laurent talked about next week's meeting in San Jose.
		Within this weblog, this entry belongs in the Apple, Software/tools categories and was published in April 2005.
	www.kottke.org /05/04/future-spotlight (496 words)

	MacDailyNews \| Sony recalls 340,000 more Sony-botched batteries, includes Sony Vaio laptops
		Apple to open retail store in Chula Vista, CA
		Apple to recall 1.8 million Sony-made iBook G4, PowerBook G4 batteries - August 24, 2006
		Apple confirms ‘resolution independence’ and more coming in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
	macdailynews.com /index.php/weblog/comments/... (1184 words)

	Mac Rumors: Apple Spotlight Patents Hinting at Leopard?
		Appleinsider are posting images from Apple's recent patent applications surrounding their Spotlight search technology.
		Alternatively, they may simply be iterations of Spotlight development that were discarded.
		Apple proposes the use of semantic analysis and even Optical Character Recognition to extract data from photos (Algorithm picture):
	www.macrumors.com /pages/2006/03/20060314174322.shtml (425 words)

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