Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

There's a very detailed, Terminal-intensive and (imho) somewhat just plain crazy and risky hack over at Mac OS X Hints that shows you how to eradicate Spotlight from Tiger. However, MacFixIt offers a ...

No, not this kind of spotlight. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac If you use Spotlight to find stuff on your iPhone or iPad, you’ll be familiar with the mess of results you get when you search. Maybe ...

Reader Curt Douglass would rather do without Spotlight. He writes: How can I remove Spotlight from my machine? I use Xcode for application development and on a 17” screen, I need the space. I have ...

I've noticed a bit of a delay in my Spotlight searches. I had a very large disk attached to my MBP and it was full of PDFs, DOCs etc. Spotlight definitely indexed it. Just recently I also removed a ...