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<h6>Calculate with Spotlight</h6>
<p><p>Have a quick calculation to perform? Don't bother opening Calculator, simply enter the calculation into Spotlight's search bar, and Spotlight displays the answer as the top item. To perform further calculations, hit Return, or click the answer, and Spotlight launches Calculator.</p></p>
<a href="/article/9094"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9094', 'show')">Curing Your LaunchBar Addiction</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9094" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9094">LaunchBar 4.3 makes our favorite launcher even better with Instant Open and Instant Send, along with oodles of other neat tweaks.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=3" class="category">Home Macs</a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 06 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9038"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9038', 'show')">Leopard Roars at WWDC 2007 Keynote</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9038" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9038">At today's Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs demoed the first feature-complete developer beta release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, showing off slick new features, including what appears to be the most significant overhaul of the Finder in some time</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 11 Jun 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8940"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8940', 'show')">Google Desktop Comes to the Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8940" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8940">Google has released the first public beta version of Google Desktop for the Mac, an application that rapidly searches files on your computer, messages in your Gmail account, and Google's existing index of Web pages, all in a single interface</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8640" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8640">When he introduced Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on stage during last week's Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, Steve Jobs was clear about how there were more "top secret" features coming in Leopard</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 14 Aug 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8506"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8506', 'show')">LaunchBar 4.1 Adds Scripts and Dictionary Lookups</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8506" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8506">LaunchBar 4.1 Adds Scripts and Dictionary Lookups -- Objective Development has released LaunchBar 4.1, the latest version of their highly useful (and for some of us, utterly essential) keyboard-based launching utility</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 May 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7990" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7990">LaunchBar 4 Lifts Off -- Objective Development has released LaunchBar 4, a major improvement on its highly regarded utility that opens files, bookmarks, and more using adaptively generated keyboard shortcuts (see "Tools We Use: LaunchBar" in TidBITS-671) The new version adds more index scanners (such as the capability to search iTunes and iPhoto libraries, Sherlock channels, etc.), search templates that let you search Web sites like Google and the Wikipedia directly from LaunchBar, the capability to browse database records (iTunes playlists and Address Book, for example) without leaving the LaunchBar interface, and a new multi-threaded indexing engine</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 21 Feb 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7915"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7915', 'show')">2004 Software Gift Ideas</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7915" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7915">We're always amused when collating software gift suggestions because of their breadth. The Mac may have less software available than Windows, but there are still far more interesting programs than anyone could ever hope to try</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 09 Dec 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7654"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7654', 'show')">Beating a Path to Path Finder 3.2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7654" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7654">Beating a Path to Path Finder 3.2 -- The folks at Cocoatech have released version 3.2 of their flagship Finder replacement, Path Finder. With Path Finder, you can navigate your hard disks, see invisible items, sort in many ways (including "smart" sorting, which distinguishes applications, folders, and packages from normal files), make a new file or folder (without its jumping around the window!), list files into a text file, copy a pathname, accumulate files from many locations to be moved or copied to a single location (the "Drop Stack"), get extensive information about items on disk, and loads of other things you wish you could do from the Finder</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 03 May 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7638"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7638', 'show')">Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/12-Apr-04</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7638" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7638">As before, the second URL below each thread description points to the discussion on our Web Crossing server, which will be much faster, though it doesn't yet use our preferred design.Intego Trojan Warning -- Readers discuss Intego's press release about the MP3Concept Trojan horse</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7623"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7623', 'show')">LaunchBar 3.3 and 4.0b1 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7623" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7623">LaunchBar 3.3 and 4.0b1 Released -- Objective Development last week released both LaunchBar 3.3, the latest version of their slick keyboard-based application launcher, and LaunchBar 4.0b1, a public beta of the next major version (see "Tools We Use: LaunchBar" in TidBITS-671)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Apr 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7609"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7609', 'show')">LaunchBar 3.3 and 4.0b1 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7609" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7609">Objective Development today released both LaunchBar 3.3, the latest version of their slick keyboard-based application launcher, and LaunchBar 4.0b1, a public beta of the next major version (see "Tools We Use: LaunchBar" in TidBITS 671)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 31 Mar 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7124" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7124">LaunchBar 3.2.10 Improves Help -- Objective Development has released LaunchBar 3.2.10, a minor update to the extremely useful launcher utility (see "Tools We Use: LaunchBar" in TidBITS-671 for a full review)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 31 Mar 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7118" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7118">Objective Development has released LaunchBar 3.2.10, a minor update to the extremely useful launcher utility (see "Tools We Use: LaunchBar" for a full review)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 26 Mar 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7107"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7107', 'show')">Tools We Use: LaunchBar</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7107" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7107">Way back in the dawn of computing, there was a word processor called WordStar. Many people who used it heavily claimed that its keyboard controls had become embedded in their fingertips, but I never quite understood what they meant</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 17 Mar 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/6805"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6805', 'show')">Top Mac OS X Utilities: Alternative Controls</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6805" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6805">In the previous installment of this series on Mac OS X utilities, I looked at Mac OS X programs that restored common capabilities provided by third party utilities in Mac OS 9</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6779"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6779', 'show')">Top Mac OS X Utilities: Restoring Third Party Capabilities</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6779" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6779">In the first installment of this series on Mac OS X utilities, I looked at utilities that restored capabilities inherent to Mac OS 9 that we had all been accustomed to over the years</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6603"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6603', 'show')">QuicKeys X: The Return of the Ghost</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6603" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6603">With the advent of Mac OS X 10.1, I'm using Mac OS X nearly all the time, but many of my long-standing work habits have become useless. That's because those habits rely on third-party utilities that haven't made the transition - and, one fears, may never do so</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 22 Oct 2001</div></div>
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