{"id":11781,"date":"2015-07-22T11:43:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T15:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11781"},"modified":"2015-09-03T14:25:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T18:25:48","slug":"flashlight-brightens-up-spotlight-in-yosemite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/flashlight-brightens-up-spotlight-in-yosemite\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashlight Brightens Up Spotlight in Yosemite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/15736\">Josh Centers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/15736\">\n<p>Developer Nate Parrot has created <a href=\"http:\/\/flashlight.nateparrott.com\/\">Flashlight<\/a>, an open platform that makes it possible for developers to expand Spotlight&rsquo;s repertoire of commands. The free Flashlight app helps you find, install, and manage the necessary plugins.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Perform a quick Web search by inserting \/ before a Spotlight query.<\/li>\n<li>Search Google Maps by prefixing your query with &ldquo;google maps&rdquo; or just &ldquo;gm&rdquo;.<\/li>\n<li>Eject a mounted volume. You can also eject all mounted volumes by typing &ldquo;eject all&rdquo;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>You can install any of hundreds of plugins. The Flashlight app offers browsable categories including Design, Developer, Language, Media, and System, or you can search through the full set.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like it works via SIMBL-style code injection, so I&rsquo;m <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/12\/system-integrity-protection-a-k-a-rootless\/\">not sure<\/a> how long it will last.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2015-09-03): <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nate-parrott\/Flashlight\/issues\/537\">Nate Parrott<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dokas\/status\/637842234121957378\">Phil Dokas<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nate-parrott\/Flashlight\/issues\/537\"><p>Hacking Spotlight is impossible in 10.11.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Centers: Developer Nate Parrot has created Flashlight, an open platform that makes it possible for developers to expand Spotlight&rsquo;s repertoire of commands. The free Flashlight app helps you find, install, and manage the necessary plugins. [&#8230;] Here are some examples: Perform a quick Web search by inserting \/ before a Spotlight query. Search Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","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":[1244,30,903,1199,74,1042],"class_list":["post-11781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-haxie","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-10-yosemite","tag-mac-os-x-10-11","tag-opensource","tag-spotlight"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781","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=11781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12179,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions\/12179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}