#spotlight

Categorized, Spotlight-like autocompletion search

"SSG was made to run on Mac OS X Tiger with the tools provided therein." It's a PHP-based web image gallery that can exploit Spotlight indexing provided by OS X Tiger!

"mdfind2 is a replacement for Apple’s mdfind command line tool. This version adds one feature that mdfind doesn’t have, you can specify the --xml switch on the command-line to output the results (including full attribute values) in XML."

"Troubleshooting a Spotlight importer can be difficult given that it is run by the system automatically as required and is run outside the development environment."

"The CC Metadata Importer for Spotlight adds support for searching on Creative Commons license information embedded in files." Wait a minnit! Does this actually prove me wrong-- or does it kick out all other importers for MP3 files?

"Is it possible to write a Spotlight importer that handles every file without it interfering with other plug-ins? So that I can extract the extended attributes and add it to the Spotlight store." I wish it were. It's like things are -] [- this close to

"Index your del.icio.us bookmarks using Spotlight."

"Metadata attribute keys that are common to many file types."

"Spotlight’s query expresion syntax is a simplified form of filename globbing familiar to shell users."

Using the Spotlights Comments field for tagging.

'Sometimes you need to do nested queries or more advanced boolean logic than "all or nothing" as the Finder gives, and the Finder gives you a way, though it's a might complicated.'