Mac Spotlight tips and tricks

This post is especially for the new Mac users.

One of the amazing feature that the Mac have is the Spotlight application, the system wide searching tool.

You can open the spotlight application by clicking the Search icon in the top right of the screen or by pressing Command+Space keys.

1) You can use the Spotlight application to search any files in your system. The Spotlight not only searches the file name but also searches the contents of the files also.

2) Spotlight2: You can use the spotlight as a simple calculator. Commands like sqrt, pi.. also works in spotlight.

3) Spotlight3: You can use the spotlight to know the meaning of any word

4) Spotlight4: Use quotes while searching multiple words or phrases.

5) Spotlight5: Use keywords like kind to search a particular category.

6) Spotlight6: You can use operands like OR, AND.