Impressive contacts, e-mail and iMessage integration was also demoed. Some types of information, such as movie show times, local restaurants and map results, are automatically localised. Spotlight can now offer up information from online sources like Wikipedia, Yelp and Bing. No longer is the tool confined to simply finding and launching local files and documents. In-preview actions. In iOS 8 Spotlight will even recommend applications you don’t have installed but thinks you might like - sound familiar?

What gives Apple’s attempt a faint dose of the familiar is the use of previews. A number of apps, OSes and projects have tried to do similar things over the years, including the aforementioned GNOME Do. Obviously the idea of collating a set of search results is not exclusive to Ubuntu. In some ways it’s reminiscent of GNOME Do (itself partly inspired by an older Mac app called Quicksilver) or Synapse, albeit with Unity Scope usefulness thanks to the integration of results from select online sources, such as Wikipedia and iTunes. Demo of Spotlight in Yosemite (via macrumors) As a search term is entered into the text box a scrollable list of results, complete with previews, appears within it. In 10.10 pressing Command + Space opens a Spotlight box in the centre of the screen. For the upcoming release of Yosemite Apple has reimagined it into something more akin to the Unity Dash that ships in Ubuntu.

Until now it’s been chained to the top of the screen – a drop-down box with one-line results. If you’re not familiar with Apple’s OS X (and since you’re reading an Ubuntu-based website there’s a good chance you’re not) Spotlight is a desktop search tool for finding and opening your installed apps and documents. Part GNOME Do and part Unity Dash, the new Spotlight is a refinement of various features those of us on Linux have been using for the past few years. Apple took the attendees at its annual developer conference WWDC on a tour of OS X 10.10 Yosemite, the next release of its popular desktop operating system due this fall.Īmongst the multitude of changes, updated apps and interface improvements of the refreshed desktop was one feature that those of us using Ubuntu will detect a faint whiff of familiarity about…

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