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In Mac OS X Leopard, the Spotlight search has been greatly improved. One thing that it does now is bring up your Safari web surfing history in the search results. For whatever reason, you may want to keep that history private, and not have your web browsing history show up in your spotlight results.

How to do it:

1. Apple Menu -> System Preferences

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Spotlight is great for searching. The problem with it is that it's not super fast, and sometimes you come up empty without the results you expect. Sometimes these ailments can be cured by simply re-indexing your hard drive.

Here is how to do it:
Open 'System Preferences'

Next, choose 'Spotlight'
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Spotlight is a fantastic way to search, and leveraging keyboard shortcuts can help speed up your searches.

Here are 7 quick keyboard shortcuts to try:

1. Open the Spotlight menu -- Command-Space
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Spotlight will index all of the data on your Mac. Most people when they search, they want to open the file right after spotlight finds it. But, you can use a Spotlight search to find the exact location of the file on your hard drive.

Here is how to do it:

Open Spotlight by pressing 'Command - Space', and your Spotlight window will open. READ MORE »

When you search for a file with spotlight, you goal may not be to open it, but rather just find out where the file is on your hard drive.

Here is how to do it:

Search for something with 'Spotlight'. In my example, I searched for the new 'Get A Mac' commercials I downloaded onto my hard drive.

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Do you want to search your computer with spotlight for a particular contact, right from your address book?

Here is how:
First, open 'Address Book'

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Get your Spotlight results in any order you like.

Here is how to to do it:

Apple Menu->System Preferences.

Next, choose 'Spotlight'
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