📅 November 20, 2014

Flashlight – The Missing Plugin System For OS X Yosemite’s Spotlight

The Missing Plugin System For OS X Yosemite’s Spotlight

flashlight-yosemite-spotlight-plugins-FSMdotCOM

With OS X Yosemite, Apple made Spotlight search more powerful than ever. Two major new features are, of course, Spotlight Suggestions and Web Searches. Unfortunately, they only work for a select group of countries. Why would you geo-restrict wikipedia or iMDB searches? Why wouldn’t you show iTunes and Mac App Store suggestions to everybody? No clue.

But, before ( some of ) you will actually start question a few things, here’s something that aims to fix and improve this issue. Something that will make you forget Apple is screwing you one feature at the time. Something that will bring you back in the state of mind that you own an expensive piece of hardware that it’s running the world’s most advanced OS. An OS that is broken even after a first update.

Introducing Flashlight – the missing plugin system for Spotlight.

Continue reading “Flashlight – The Missing Plugin System For OS X Yosemite’s Spotlight”

📅 August 18, 2011

Review: iFireLight, Is It a Flashlight? A Media Player? You Decide!

Let me introduce you to iFireLight. This app hit the scene a while ago, but I honestly don’t think its gotten the publicity it deserves. There are ALOT of apps in the store that do this or that, but this one does it all.

While you are searching threw the app store for your next app, you will see quite a few alternative media players, quite a few flashlight apps, and hell quite a few of everything. One thing that you won’t see to many of though is a flashlight app that plays music… or a music app that also acts as a flashlight…

Let me introduce you to iFireLight. This app hit the scene a while ago, but I honestly don’t think its gotten the publicity it deserves. There are ALOT of apps in the store that do this or that, but this one does it all.

Continue reading “Review: iFireLight, Is It a Flashlight? A Media Player? You Decide!”