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Opal

a-sharp.opal

Opal lets you organize just about anything — ideas, reports, lists...

using fast filtering or Spotlight. Or keep

Spot-O-Meter

com.scsc-online

Spot-O-Meter is an application that measure the CPU and I/O intensity of Spotlight indexing...

I/O intensity of Spotlight indexing...at all. Intense Spotlight indexing can bottleneck

Sorter

free

Peter Brachwitz

Sorter is an application that allows you to organize...

to leverage Mac OS X's Spotlight technology to organize

vdomint

free

June IT Solutions

Vdomint is an easy-to-use YouTube spotlight for Mac. Vdomint is a menu bar application...

easy-to-use YouTube spotlight for Mac

MacNote3LE

sekn

MacNote3LE...

can be opened via Spotlight; a page previewed via QuickLook

NameFind

Kevin Walzer

NameFind is a GUI for the Unix "find" command-line tool, installed by default on Mac OS X. Enter a search term...

a specific directory. Spotlight is powerful ...or supplement to Spotlight. What's

Spangle

free

Pierre Rudloff

Spangle is an App Updater written for the Sparkle Framework. It uses Spotlight...

Sparkle Framework. It uses Spotlight to find your Sparkle

AmbiLauncher

KroNick

AmbiLauncher is a Mac application that aims at providing you with a simple and quick way to launch programs on your computer...

Applications folder or the Spotlight search engine to locate

Capitals Quizzer

Supergonk Ltd.

Capitals Quizzer is an application developed for Mac users who wish to spend quality...

app. Firstly, you cannot disable

Appsomnia

AppPlunger

Appsomnia is a simple top bar application which prevents your Mac from going to sleep...

addition, you can enable/disable notifications

iGet

Nakahara Informatics, Inc.

iGet is an inventive file transfer tool, designed specifically...

them. With Spotlight searches that execute...AppleScript, Bonjour, Spotlight, and the Keychain

DBGL

free

Ronald Blankendaal

DBGL is a Java frontend for DOSBox, based largely upon the proven...

a table field), enable or disable it, or clear

myDocuments

free

myownapp

myDocuments is a clear program, crafted with attention to detail...

and files. Even with Spotlight and the like

Hibernate

Patrick Stein

Hibernate preference pane will enable set switch between different sleep states on your Mac: - sleep - hibernate & sleep...

case something goes wrong disable hibernation by resetting

X4Shortcuts

winterseel

X4Shortcuts is a lightweight shortcut reference for mac and iOS developers using Xcode4...

menubar and acts like spotlight. You can search

Brow

free

Tim Schröder

Brow adds your Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox bookmarks to the OS X Spotlight...

to the OS X Spotlight Service. Spotlight will show the bookmarks

Ducker

free

Hyzkia

“Ducking is an audio effect commonly used in radio and pop music...

“Ducking is an audio effect commonly used in radio and pop music, especially dance music.” ~

Ghost Sphere

spherecorner.com

Ghost Sphere can just hide complete folders from others eyes. To archive this goal...

are even hidden in Spotlight searches. Hackers

MacNote

sekn

MacNote is a light-weight, fast notepad. It offers many options including...

can be opened via Spotlight; a page previewed via QuickLook

NoPing

free

MacInsider

NoPing is a simple, but effective tool to get rid of Ping in iTunes 10. If you aren’t...

you are able to disable Ping completely

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