How to use advanced features in Mac OS X Spotlight?

Spotlight is a powerful desktop search tool for Mac users.Spotlight not only searches files, folders and documents but also messages in Mail, contacts in Address Book, iCal calendars, System Preferences and applications.

The Spotlight is located in the top right hand corner of Mac OS X menu bar.To launch Spotlight click on the search icon or use the keyboard shortcut Command key+Space.Search results are displayed instantly as you type.

Most of you might have used Google search engine as calculator.Simlary you can do mathematical calculations in Spotlight.No need to launch Calculator application seperatley.Cool Isn’t it? 🙂 See the below screenshot,

Just type the application name the results will be displyed.Here I tried to search Terminal application.

This is a common thing which every desktop search tool can do.You can also find folder path as shown in below screenshot,

If you are looking for a file and you know it’s a Image, and only want Images to show try,

Eg:

I want to search for Indian Army Pictures.Then this is the syntax,

kind:application, kind:applications, kind:app

kind:contact, kind:contacts

kind:folder, kind:folders

kind:email, kind:emails, kind:mail message, kind:mail messages

kind:event, kind:events

kind:todo, kind:todos, kind:to do, kind:to dos

kind:image, kind:images

kind:movie, kind:movies

kind:music

kind:audio

kind:pdf, kind:pdfs

kind:system preferences, kind:preferences

kind:bookmark, kind:bookmarks

kind:font, kind:fonts

kind:presentations, kind:presentation

You got something to share about Spotlight? Then go ahead 😉