Here’s a tip that might be interesting to those crashnauts who frequent Apple’s OSX operating system:

Many OSX users have noticed that the system wide spotlight indexing system isn’t quite as revolutionary a feature as it was originally touted to be. Yes, kernel-level integration means that OSX enjoys an unprecedented amount of accuracy of information in regards to its files, but if the results of a spotlight search are difficult to use, that really limits how useful of a feature spotlight ends up being.

The keystroke opt-cmd-space provides a bit of an improvement over the normal cmd-space keystroke in that it brings up a full spotlight window, which allows you to sort the search results and find paths, modify dates, and reveal those items in the finder.

Spotlight still has some growing pains to work through, but for me this nifty trick will improve my spotlight sessions for the time being, as we wait for some boolean goodness in OS 10.5 Leopard.