Stupid mac tricks

Mar. 13th, 2009 at 2:48 PM

For those of you running OS X, did you know you can use spotlight like a calculator? Just open the spotlight search field and type the equation you want to calculate. But beware, as spotlight has a bug! If I type "3*3" (or various other simple calculations (without the quotes)) into my spotlight window, it crashes a moment later. But there is a workaround; just put a decimal after the first number. Ie: "3.*3"

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zorinlynx

Mar. 13th, 2009 10:03 pm (UTC)

I can't reproduce that bug. There's a good bet your metadata database is corrupted. Try deleting and rebuilding the metadata and see if that solves the issue. :)

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revar

Mar. 14th, 2009 01:01 am (UTC)

It does this for me on both my personal MacBook pro, and my office MacBook pro. Interesting.

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krin_o_o_

Mar. 14th, 2009 03:55 am (UTC)

It knows you.

It taunts you.

It is dangling a neat *shiney* in front of you.

It will task you.

Yes, it will.

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sebkha

Mar. 14th, 2009 07:04 am (UTC)

I can reproduce this as a non-bug on 10.5.6.

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ben_raccoon

Mar. 14th, 2009 01:55 pm (UTC)

I can't seem to reproduce this, either.

Still, nifty!

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shatterstripes

Mar. 14th, 2009 10:44 pm (UTC)

WORKSFORME

No decimal needed here. Not that I really use Spotlight much what with its shortcut interfering with the keys for moving around the canvas in Illustrator.

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