Hi there, I would very much like to purchase "Take Control of Spotlight" from you.
I remember that we pay via Paypal. Please let me know how to proceed. With best regards from Austria, Mike On 16,Sep,2011, at 9:07 PM, Gordon & Lynne Smith wrote: > Hello everybody; especially our Take Control fans > > If you've ever misplaced a file on your Mac and despaired of locating it > again, we have a find for you: Sharon Zardetto's latest title, "Take Control > of Spotlight for Finding Anything on Your Mac." The 158-page ebook is now > available for just £2.41 GBP from Mac Access Dot Net. > > Join Sharon as she explores the hidden depths of Spotlight searching, one of > Mac OS X's most powerful yet least explained features. No matter how > carefully you organise files and folders on your Mac, it's easy to lose > important items. With Sharon's help, you can aim Apple's Spotlight quickly > and precisely, and stop rummaging around in the darkness of your disk. > > After Sharon explains how Spotlight indexes your data and the "grammar" > behind Spotlight searches, you'll examine the many ways you can start > Spotlight searches: the magnifying glass in the menu bar, the search field in > Finder windows or the Open and Save dialogs, a keyboard shortcut, a > contextual menu, or customized and saved searches you've made for yourself. > > Then it's on to learning how to find exactly what you're looking for using > keyword searches, multiple-criteria searches, Boolean searches, and more. And > here's where you'll learn the most valuable lesson about Spotlight, which > Apple has never fully explained, which is how to search directly using > Spotlight's internal search language, making even complex searches quick and > easy. > > Remember, searches aren't just about finding lost files, they're also useful > for selecting a set of matching files to work on. For instance, we've used > Spotlight to identify which photos in a folder are small thumbnails or which > of our ebooks lack a certain phrase. You can even do things like find every > GarageBand song in the key of E-flat. > > You'll learn these search-related techniques: > > * Improve search accuracy by limiting Spotlight to searching just where you > want. > * Reduce result clutter by choosing which categories should appear in the > Spotlight menu. > * Learn what to do when the Spotlight menu doesn't list an item that it > should be able to find. > * Use criteria bars (and even the elusive Boolean bars!) to create complex > search queries. > * Bypass criteria bars by typing complex, powerful queries in any Spotlight > search field. > * Build Boolean searches with AND, OR, and NOT to narrow your search results > precisely. > > In addition, you'll find out how to make your files even easier to find with > these techniques: > > * Customise a file's metadata. > * Employ free third-party utilities to give your files useful, searchable > tags. > * Set up sophisticated smart folders that provide dynamic file organization. > > In these days of terabyte drives, your Mac has enormous storage capacity, and > you may have many thousands of files squirreled away (we don't even want to > admit to how many hundreds of thousands of files are filling up our disks!). > But with the Spotlight expertise you'll gain from this ebook, you'll be able > to retrieve anything on your Mac, no matter how deeply it's buried or how > specific you need to make your search. > > Although there's something in this ebook for all Mac users, including novices > and power users, we were particularly pleased to learn more about typing > complex search queries, making us faster and more fluid with our Macs than > ever before! So, whether you've hardly realized that there's a fancy search > engine in your Mac or you know it's there but have yet to harness its full > power, get started with "Take Control of Spotlight for Finding Anything on > Your Mac" today. > > If you are interested, we can expedite your orders right away. > > Lynne > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. 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