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Spotlight Constantly Indexing – Estimating Index Time

27 Jun

A few moments ago I noticed a dot inside the magnifying glass that is Spotlight so I clicked on it to find that it was trying (for some reason) to index my MacBooks internal hard disk drive and was constantly saying “Estimating Index Time” and not doing anything else!

I tried clearing all my Mac’s cache using Onyx but that didn’t solve the problem.

A quick Google later and I found a solution that I thought I’d share with you here:

  1. Open up a Terminal session
  2. Disable Spotlight by typing in: sudo mdutil -a -i off
  3. I then entered my password
  4. After a few moments I enabled it by typing the following: sudo mdutil -a -i on

I clicked on Spotlight and it said ‘Estimating Index Time’ and then after a few moments it said 31 minutes and it’s been going down ever since so it’s working!

Turning something off and then back on again has worked again!

:)

 
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Safari Version 5

12 Jun

I’m currently downloading the latest version of Apples Safari (Version 5) which claims to be even faster than before – in fact it says it’s the fastest most innovative web browser out there!

They’ve addded something called ‘Safari Reader’ which basically strips out all the adverts on a website so you can just read the article – that’s bound to have an effect on websites who can only exist due to advertising revenue, no adverts shown then there’s nothing to click on so websites go under :( also they seem to have done a deal with Microsoft as Bing search is now integrated in to it.

Is it any faster than before?  I’ll find out once I’ve rebooted my laptop!

More details from Apple directly here:  http://www.apple.com/uk/safari/

 
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BumpTop 3D Desktop

24 Apr

Have you got lots of icons on your desktop?  Fed-up with them being all over the place and find it difficult to keep them in some sort of order or do you simply like the idea of having a 3D desktop?

Then some software from BumpTop may be in order!

It’s available on both PC and Mac (only tried it on my Mac so far) and it’s great!

Here’s what it looks like on my MacBook:

If you want to give it a go you can get it from here:  http://bumptop.com/

 
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