4: Create Spotlight indexes for networked volumes. I was quite disappointed when I read Friday evening that Spotlight would only index volumes physically attached to my machine (e.g., FireWire or internal). I have a Linux server in the basement with lots of data that I was hoping to index and mine with Spotlight. This evening, while digging around, I found a command line utility called mdutil.
It has a switch, -i, to enable indexing on a volume. So I just went ahead as root (sudo bash) and ran: mdutil /Volumes/ldm -i on Then I checked the status with mdutil /Volumes/ldm -s And, behold ... /Volumes/ldm/: Status: Indexing Enabled A second later, the Spotlight Icon started pulsating. I thought that others may give it a try to confirm whether this is working as expected. Hope it helps someone! Working with Spotlight.
Cocoa Frameworks Cocoa is an extremely productive high-level programming environment that gives you complete access to the full power of the operating system, including the signature Mac look and feel. Written in the dynamic Objective-C language, Cocoa provides exciting and animation-rich user experiences, but is easy to augment with your custom behaviors. With integrated support for the Model-View-Controller pattern, Cocoa provides a solid foundation for building state-of-the-art applications. With the Interface Builder tool, it is both easy and fun to drag-and-drop Cocoa controls to design your app’s user interface. Learn more Complete Access to the OS OS X integrates a number of easy-to-use technologies that play a dual role as great applications and system services.
Create Beautiful Apps OS X is built around a powerful, integrated stack of graphics technologies, including Core Animation, AV Foundation, Core Image and OpenGL. Powerful Foundation. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger : Page 9. Back in early November of 2003, I introduced my Mac OS X 10.3 Panther review with some concerns about Apple's OS release cycle. It's strange to have gone from years of uncertainty and vaporware to a steady annual supply of major new operating system releases from Apple. But do I really want to pay US$129 every year for the next version of Mac OS X? Worse, do I really want to deal with the inevitable upgrade hassles and 10.x.0 release bugs every single year?
Is it worth it, or is a major OS upgrade every year simply too much, too often? In the end, I concluded that I was okay with yearly releases, but that some sort of adjustment for "normal" customers would be nice. If there's going to be any consumer backlash, it's not going to start with me. So convinced was I of the inevitability of the Mac OS X yearly release juggernaut that I never even considered the possibility that relief from the $129-per-year Mac OS X tax might come in the form of an extra six-month wait for version 10.4. Editors' Notes: Tiger Evaluated: Spotlight.
When you start using an upgraded version of a piece of software, the first things you notice are the changes. It’s hard to tell whether they’re good or bad, but they’re different , and they take some getting used to. The next stage of the upgrade — and the one I’m now in with Tiger — is when you form judgments about the good and the bad (and, most often, the shades of gray) of new features, as well as appreciating small touches that originally escaped your notice. When Tiger was first announced last year, I wrote a series of articles under the name “Tiger Primer.” Now that Tiger is here to stay, I thought I’d revisit its features and provide a true hands-on judgment about what works and what doesn’t in this new version of Mac OS X.
First up: Spotlight. Giving Spotlight the Third Degree Spotlight is, no doubt, the most important feature in Tiger. And yet, oddly enough, Spotlight is also the Tiger feature that I feel the most ambivalent about. Metadata is good. Why is this cool? Or . . .