{"id":1142,"date":"2005-11-16T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T18:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2020-12-11T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:44:42","slug":"a-dim-view-of-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/16\/a-dim-view-of-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dim View of Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nRob Griffiths<\/a> (via Pierre Igot<\/a>):\n<\/p>\n\n

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Once Tiger hit the streets<\/a>, however, I was less than impressed with the real-world usability of Spotlight, as I discussed in this entry<\/a> on my personal blog. When I wrote that entry back in May, I focused a fair bit on the interface and the performance. Now that I’ve had several months to adjust to using Spotlight, I’m ready to follow-up with some additional observations gained over the last six months, and some recommendations on what I’d love to see in “version 2.0” of Spotlight. But before that, let’s revisit a few of my first impressions of Tiger’s search technology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

\nI like the idea of Spotlight, but I’ve turned it off. Trying to search with it would lock up the Finder or the Spotlight menu for minutes at a time, and it would rarely find what I was looking for, anyway. I’ve seen it work well on Macs with a small number of files, but on my main Mac (a dual 2 GHz G5 with 2.5 GB of RAM but lots of files) it’s worse than useless because it slows everything down. Fortunately, Path Finder<\/a> has a good file search feature.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rob Griffiths (via Pierre Igot): Once Tiger hit the streets, however, I was less than impressed with the real-world usability of Spotlight, as I discussed in this entry on my personal blog. When I wrote that entry back in May, I focused a fair bit on the interface and the performance. Now that I’ve had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-12-11T20:44:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"6455993f-42f2-4922-a55d-60a9ec44b2c6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-12-11T20:44:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZFWZP0LySSKlXWCp7ESyxg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[353],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-pathfinder"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30986,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/30986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}