Spotlight

The Mac OS X Leopard version of Spotlight supports Boolean logic. This doesn’t mean you’re limited to creating complicated AND/NOT/OR queries in the Spotlight search field. You can open the Spotlight window and build a Boolean search using as many of the 145 predefined search attributes as you wish. Here’s how.

The Spotlight feature in Mac OS X Leopard conveniently sorts search results by category. Spotlight does this so Mac users can immediately see what type objects were found. But did you know you could change the order in which the search results appear? Here’s how to optimize Spotlight for the way you work.