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Making metadata more accessible: Metamer 1.3

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Version 1.3 adds drag and drop onto a document window, and a Scratchpad to store keywords that you use often. For 10.14.6 and later.

October 31, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reversing Spotlight search with a second beta of Spotcord

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Second beta adds support for all metadata keys, has an extensive Help book, and saves results in a text file. Discover the keywords you can search for.

October 12, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Get more from your metadata: reversing Spotlight

Automated image analysis and other tools store keywords in many different types of files. To search effectively for keywords, though, you need to know which terms have been used.

October 2, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Are we ready for dataless files?

It can take many hours for files to be downloaded from iCloud. Apps must be able to cope with that, but how well does macOS?

August 6, 2023 Macs, Technology

Searching iCloud Drive with Spotlight

Why doesn’t Spotlight seem able to return search results for files stored in iCloud Drive? And a strange feature discovered in extended attributes.

July 19, 2023 Macs, Technology

What to do when Spotlight can’t find it

Immediate actions to get the best result from your search, and how to tackle even the most deep-seated of Spotlight problems.

June 22, 2023 Macs, Technology

Log Literacy: Navigation

All about time and landmarks you can look for in the log, after booting, on shutdown, when waking from sleep, and using activities to locate mouse clicks.

February 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

System Settings in Ventura: a turn for the worse?

The most controversial of all changes in Ventura is the move to System Settings. Although this does achieve important objective, there’s still a long and painful journey to get it right.

September 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

How to find it in the log: 2 Navigation

Time and timestamps, landmark events, activities like clicks, subsystems as predicates, Find, and bar charts – all aids to navigating the log.

July 26, 2022 Macs, Technology

Biome isn’t about biometrics, but suggestions

It has its own folder in ~/Library, and no less than 7 of its own Private Frameworks. But what is it, and what does it do? This is as much as I know about it.

June 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

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