{"id":51942,"date":"2021-03-17T03:01:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T17:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=51942"},"modified":"2021-03-16T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T01:22:31","slug":"spotlight-on-macos-generic-usefulness-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/spotlight-on-macos-generic-usefulness-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on MacOS Generic Usefulness Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spotlight on MacOS Generic Usefulness Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday’s Trace Route on MacOS via Spotlight Tutorial<\/a> set me to thinking of …<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Environment<\/th>\nInterest<\/th>\nMost useful generic “Finder” of information<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Online (ie. internet)<\/td>\nComplete Unknowns<\/td>\nGoogle<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Online (ie. internet)<\/td>\nKnown or Heard Of or Unknown Concepts<\/td>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Online (ie. internet)<\/td>\nCommand Line commands<\/td>\nComputer Hope<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
macOS Desktop<\/td>\nGUI file finding and execution<\/td>\nFinder
dock
desktop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows Desktop<\/td>\nGUI file finding and execution<\/td>\nWindows Explorer
taskbar
desktop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
macOS Desktop<\/td>\nCommand Line<\/td>\nman ?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows Desktop<\/td>\nCommand Line<\/td>\nhelp ?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
macOS Voice<\/td>\nGUI<\/td>\nsiri<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows Voice<\/td>\nGUI<\/td>\ncortana<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

… and yesterday’s work got us ruminating on …<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Environment<\/th>\nInterest<\/th>\nMost useful generic “Finder” of information<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
macOS GUI meets Desktop<\/td>\nDesktop and GUI<\/td>\nspotlight<\/a> ? (via command-space)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

… because, setting it to work on some “concepts” close to a programmer’s heart<\/a> taught us that Spotlight can, indeed, find things you would have not thought of (eg reverse image searching<\/a>), in all probability, just by yourself, calling on both the online wooooorrrrlllldd and the more personalized and tailored wooooorrrrrrrlllllddd you’ve established on your MacBook Pro or other macOS (operating system) using computer.<\/p>\n

Here’s the other (often embarrassing) thing that can happen, too, that Spotlight might help with. You hear of a “command” or term someone just throws out there and does not explain. Perhaps it is a macOS desktop term or perhaps it concerns networking or some online wooooorrrrlllllddd matter. Spotlight’s melding of wooooorrrlllldddds may sort out this painful ignorance for you!<\/p>\n

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Previous relevant Trace Route on MacOS via Spotlight Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n

\"Trace<\/a>

Trace Route on MacOS via Spotlight Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

A tool often used to diagnose DNS networking issues is a trace route. On a Windows command line that can be achieved by the command “tracert”<\/a> and on macOS command line we can use “traceroute”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today, though, we want to be on macOS and use its GUI clarity to view a trace route. What can we use? Blog posting title spoiler alert (and we all know the woooorrrllllllddd needs more lerts)<\/font> is that we (thank https:\/\/macreports.com\/how-to-run-traceroute-on-macos\/<\/a> for heads up regarding trying to)<\/font> use the macOS Spotlight<\/a> functionality …<\/p>\n

\nSpotlight can help you quickly find apps, documents and other files on your Mac. With Siri Suggestions, you can also get the latest news, sports scores, weather conditions and more. Spotlight can even perform calculations and conversions for you.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… to search for app information. We use Spotlight (via command-space on this MacBook Pro using macOS Mojave) to search for “Network Utility” where we find the “Traceroute” tab to achieve our aim of producing a trace route of the rjmrogramming.com.au domain, as shown in today’s tutorial picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If this was interesting you may be interested in this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n