Tiger Tips: Spotlight Tips

Apple has their own full page of Spotlight Tips. It looks like they are setting it up as their flagship Tiger feature and Finder replacement: "Spotlight will change the way that you use your Mac forever. Its so deep, so powerful and so intuitive that you just start typing and it finds anything on your system that matches, instantly. Spotlight has a very deep feature set and can be customized the way you like. Here is a collection of tips, shortcuts and power features that will let you get the most out of Spotlight."

The keyword functionality would seem to be very useful, especially the kind function that will allow me to focus my searches to apps only for quick launching. My minor gripe: typing "kind:app firefox" to pull up Firefox in Spotlight is still quite a bit more work than typing "fi" in Quicksilver to do the same.

[via fscklog]