A Little Bit of Eye Candy in System Preferences

[GreyFox1221]

Open System Preferences and start searching. The way it handles it is good to look at.

 

[PlaceofDis]

um... old news?
demoed by Apple before Tiger even shipped.

 

[yellow]

What?

I'm sorry, could you provide more details as to what you're talking about?

EDIT: Oh, I see.. yes, old news, as PoD posted.

 

[WildCowboy]

I assume he's just talking about the little "spotlight" effect you get that highlights relevant preference panes as your type in the search box...

 

[GreyFox1221]

Oh, I didn't realize it was common knowledge. Sorry about that.

 

[yellow]

Oh, I didn't realize it was common knowledge. Sorry about that.

No problem.. chances are there's plenty of folks who actually don't know about it and they might come across this thread.

 

[iSaint]

I didn't know that, and it's very cool!!!

 

[virus1]

it was actually a little bit bizare the way they advertised it so much. its not like it is supposed to be a super commonly used program.. i don't even use the search feature at all

 

[chairguru22]

woowwww. thats really neat. too bad all folders dont spotlight like that...

 

[AvSRoCkCO1067]

it was actually a little bit bizare the way they advertised it so much. its not like it is supposed to be a super commonly used program.. i don't even use the search feature at all

Wow, well Microsoft is making a huge deal out of search with Vista, and I think that adding it into System Preferences is a terrific addition to an otherwise mediocre Apple Help.

Search is extremely important to a lot of people; I refuse to use Finder, for example, and instead just use Spotlight to find files I need.

Coolest feature of Spotlight for me? Definitely it's ability to search emails - I use that more than anything.

 

[Bern]

I must be doing something wrong, I never use Spotlight

 

[alienex]

Good post. Not everyone knew that. I didn't.

 

[skillz1318]

thanks for the tip...i had no idea....i'm new to the mac world