Hello everybody; especially our Take Control fans If you've ever misplaced a file on your Mac and despaired of locating it again, we have a find for you: Sharon Zardetto's latest title, "Take Control of Spotlight for Finding Anything on Your Mac." The 158-page ebook is now available for just £2.41 GBP from Mac Access Dot Net.
Join Sharon as she explores the hidden depths of Spotlight searching, one of Mac OS X's most powerful yet least explained features. No matter how carefully you organise files and folders on your Mac, it's easy to lose important items. With Sharon's help, you can aim Apple's Spotlight quickly and precisely, and stop rummaging around in the darkness of your disk. After Sharon explains how Spotlight indexes your data and the "grammar" behind Spotlight searches, you'll examine the many ways you can start Spotlight searches: the magnifying glass in the menu bar, the search field in Finder windows or the Open and Save dialogs, a keyboard shortcut, a contextual menu, or customized and saved searches you've made for yourself. Then it's on to learning how to find exactly what you're looking for using keyword searches, multiple-criteria searches, Boolean searches, and more. And here's where you'll learn the most valuable lesson about Spotlight, which Apple has never fully explained, which is how to search directly using Spotlight's internal search language, making even complex searches quick and easy. Remember, searches aren't just about finding lost files, they're also useful for selecting a set of matching files to work on. For instance, we've used Spotlight to identify which photos in a folder are small thumbnails or which of our ebooks lack a certain phrase. You can even do things like find every GarageBand song in the key of E-flat. You'll learn these search-related techniques: * Improve search accuracy by limiting Spotlight to searching just where you want. * Reduce result clutter by choosing which categories should appear in the Spotlight menu. * Learn what to do when the Spotlight menu doesn't list an item that it should be able to find. * Use criteria bars (and even the elusive Boolean bars!) to create complex search queries. * Bypass criteria bars by typing complex, powerful queries in any Spotlight search field. * Build Boolean searches with AND, OR, and NOT to narrow your search results precisely. In addition, you'll find out how to make your files even easier to find with these techniques: * Customise a file's metadata. * Employ free third-party utilities to give your files useful, searchable tags. * Set up sophisticated smart folders that provide dynamic file organization. In these days of terabyte drives, your Mac has enormous storage capacity, and you may have many thousands of files squirreled away (we don't even want to admit to how many hundreds of thousands of files are filling up our disks!). But with the Spotlight expertise you'll gain from this ebook, you'll be able to retrieve anything on your Mac, no matter how deeply it's buried or how specific you need to make your search. Although there's something in this ebook for all Mac users, including novices and power users, we were particularly pleased to learn more about typing complex search queries, making us faster and more fluid with our Macs than ever before! So, whether you've hardly realized that there's a fancy search engine in your Mac or you know it's there but have yet to harness its full power, get started with "Take Control of Spotlight for Finding Anything on Your Mac" today. If you are interested, we can expedite your orders right away. Lynne <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
