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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 368

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 368. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Its actions speak louder in workflows until replaced by shortcuts.

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Automator

Its actions (components used to build its workflows) speak louder in workflows (Automator’s ‘apps’) until replaced by shortcuts (Shortcuts, introduced in macOS in 2021, is intended to replace Automator).

2: Replacing a fictional detective, its indexes never really made it to iPhones.

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Spotlight

Replacing a fictional detective (it was the successor to Sherlock 3), its indexes (it builds and maintains indexes on each volume included) never really made it to iPhones (iOS and iPadOS have only really had Core Spotlight, rather than the full Spotlight in macOS).

3: This instrument panel came in 14 widgets and vanished in 10.15.

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Dashboard

This instrument panel (a dashboard) came in 14 widgets (its first version came with 14 standard widgets) and vanished in 10.15 (it was removed from macOS Catalina).

The common factor

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These were all new features in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, released 21 years ago, on 29 April 2005.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.