- You Cant Use It If You Cant Find It
- Spotlight Menu: Its Fast, Easy, and Always There
- Open Your Top Hit Fast
- Get Smarter with Just One Click
- Daniel Webster Would be Jealous
- Break the Top 20 Barrier
- Put Some Limits on Spotlight
- See What You Wanna See
- Change the Order of the Results
- Use Quick Look to Be Sure You Have the Right File
- Spotlight Window
- Refine Your Searches in Spotlight Window
- Add Items to the Search Criteria pop-up Menus
- Saving Spotlight Searches as Smart Folders
- Power Searching Is, Uhhhh, Powerful
- Sometimes Less Can Be More
- I Search, Therefore I Find
- A Little Help With More Complicated Searches
- Dont Know the Exact Filename? No Problem
- Sometimes Its Whats Inside That Counts
- Avoiding Junk Search Results
- Search Inside Your Photoshop Documents
- Spotlight Menu Versus Spotlight Window
- Searching the System Preferences
- Opening? Saving? Spotlight Will Help
Get Smarter with Just One Click
The title for this tip sounds like something you would hear on an infomercial, but it happens to be true. The next time you’re reading a document (it can be an email, a text document, a webpage, etc.), and run across a word or topic you want to know more about, just Control-click it and select Look Up in Dictionary from the contextual menu. By default, Dictionary will search for your word in the New Oxford American Dictionary, the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus, the Apple Dictionary, and Wiki-pedia, then it will display any results it finds.