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Spotless 4.0.0
BrowserCam provides Spotlight for PC (MAC) download for free. Even if Spotlight Spotlight is designed for Android mobile and also iOS by Javelin Mobile. You can install Spotlight on PC for laptop. Meet the highlight feature for your mouse. It brings instant focus to your virtual presentation. SHINE SOME LIGHT. They see what you see. The highlight feature creates a spotlight-effect on your screen, so you can point, click, and rest assured that your audience is following along.
Enable and disable Spotlight's auto indexing of volumes with the click of a button
Spotlight for WordPerfect 3.6
Enables Spotlight search of WP files.
QuarkXpress Spotlight Plugin 1.0
Search within QuarkXPress documents using SpotLight
Spotlight Importer Collection 0.1
Free collection of Spotlight importers for log files and for property lists/configuration files
Spotlaser 1.3.4
Mac Os Spotlight
Perform quick file searches
Ziplight 1.3
Lets you search inside zip files quickly and easily.
SmartComments 1.5
A small software tool that enables you to modify Spotlight Comments
Spotlight Filter 2.0
Spotlight Filter for Quark 7 (3-5 textsearch only) documents
NeoLight 1.1.5
NeoLight - Allows Spotlight to index NeoOffice and OpenOffice docs
Ninjar 1.0
Ninjar is a Spotlight importer that allows OS X to index the content of .jar (Java Archive) files.
Mellel Spotlight Plugin 1.6.5
Mellel Spotlight Plugin - Makes Mellel documents searchable
Google Importer 1.0.1
Enhances Spotlight searches with Google results
Python Metadata Importer 1.0.6
Python Metadata Importer - Spotlight plug-in imports Python scripts
Keka
Rectangle
The Unarchiver
Microsoft Remote Desktop
Keysmith
Mimestream
Spotlight Search On Mac
VLC Media Player
Filmora
macOS
Big Sur Cache Cleaner
Spotlight Mac Download Torrent
AppCleaner
Alfred
Amphetamine
Hidden Bar
- Filmora
- macOS
- Big Sur Cache Cleaner
- AppCleaner
- Alfred
- Amphetamine
- Hidden Bar
- Aerial
- Keka
- Rectangle
- The Unarchiver
- Microsoft Remote Desktop
- Keysmith
- Mimestream
- VLC Media Player
Spotlight search on Mac OS X is a great tool for internal file searches. But not everyone like Spotlight and for those who want to disable Spotlight this will help you do that. A main reason Apple users want to disable Spotlight search is because of mdworker, the software running Spotlight. It’s important to know that some other Mac OS X features and programs are supported Spotlight’s search and other apps could not work differently if you disable Spotlight search.
These directions below are intended for older versions of OS X, including 10.4 and 10.5. The instructions below for prior versions of Mac OS X are included for posterity as they continue to be relevant to machines that are not able to run the most recent versions available. To learn how to disable spotlight search on OS X Yosemite, OS X Mavericks, OS Mountain Lion and OS X Lion read this guide.
Disabling Spotlight
- Launch Terminal and type the following:
sudo nano /etc/hostconfig
- Navigate using the arrow keys down the following entry:
SPOTLIGHT=-YES-
- Change
SPOTLIGHT=-YES-
toSPOTLIGHT=-NO-
- Save /etc/hostconfig by hitting Control-O and the return key, next hit Control-X to exit the nano editor
- Next, you’ll want to disable the index by typing the following in the Terminal:
mdutil -i off /
- And to erase the current Spotlight index, type:
mdutil -E /
- That’s pretty much it, on your next reboot, Spotlight will be completely disabled.
Re-Enable Spotlight
- If you want to enable Spotlight again, follow the same steps as above, but change
SPOTLIGHT=-NO-
toSPOTLIGHT=-YES-
- and then type
mdutil -i on /
in the Terminal - Reboot, and Spotlight is back as usual
Disable Spotlight in OS X 10.5
To turn off Spotlight in Leopard, use this trick:
Move these two files to another safe location and then reboot your mac/System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.Spotlight.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
Re-enable Spotlight by moving those files back to their original location, reboot, and Spotlight will work again.