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 ...

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 ...

Note: The problem discussed below behaves differently depending on the type of email account being used. Users of POP mail accounts are indeed noticing a problem with deleted email messages appearing ...

Spotlight search on an iOS device is a fantastic feature. If, like me, you have pages and pages filled with apps, it’s easy to find the one you’re looking for simply by typing the first few letters of ...

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 ...

Spotlight processor usage and performance problems We continue to cover an issue where Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight function consumes inordinate amounts of processor time, resulting in slower overall ...

While you are still in the Terminal, type "killall Spotlight" to turn off the spotlight service right then. Spotlight will suddenly dissappear from your menu bar.

Mac users: If Spotlight gets in your way, you can disable it permanently. Tech blog N.E.R.D. details how you can shutdown Spotlight for good — and turn it back on again if you change your mind. To do ...

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 ...