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November 1, 2005

A really cool thing about Spotlight ()

by fluffy at 8:20 PM
I hadn't really anticipated this, but Spotlight's indexing is actually really useful. For example, all of the text in all of my comics is indexed, so if I need to find what particular comic someone says something in, I can just do a Spotlight search on it.

Awesome.

Also, the screen capture commands now put out PNGs instead of annoying-to-use PDFs. Woo.

Comments

#6640 11/01/2005 10:42 pm
Must ask: What's the nonstandard menu extra / status item you've got up there?
#6641 11/01/2005 10:45 pm
Clicker
#6642 11/01/2005 10:57 pm pretty cool
I can only dream of those features in linux (aka kde/gnu/linux). It's coming, it's coming...
#6643 11/01/2005 11:01 pm
Another really cool thing: I installed iTunes-LAME and it immediately showed up in my iTunes Applescript menu. The really cool thing is that my iTunes Applescript menu didn't even exist until I installed iTunes-LAME, but the instant I installed it, the menu popped into existence and worked! And it's not that iTunes-LAME's installer notified iTunes of the new plugin, because iTunes-LAME's installer is just the instructions, "Drag this into your iTunes/Applescript folder."

♥ filesystem-level event notification
#6644 11/02/2005 12:18 am
Yup, kqueue is great. Surprisingly easy to use, actually. man kqueue for details. It's even got some handy general-purpose features, like "notify me when this file gets written to".
#6647 11/02/2005 04:37 pm
If you put that plaintext on your comic strip pages too, Google could index all your text as well.
#6648 11/02/2005 06:14 pm
Yes, I know.