I want to use codes like this. NSMetadataQuery *query = [[NSMetadataQuery alloc] init]; [query setSearchScopes: [NSArray arrayWithObject: [NSURL fileURLWithPath:@"/Users/Someone/Music" isDirectory...

I write lots of little test apps on my devices. Is there some metadata I can add to the app so it appears more readily in Spotlight searches? For instance, I made a laundry timer app named Lavado...

I'm developing an OS X application to organize "things" (as iTunes is to music and iPhoto to photos). Instead of having my own database and index, I'm considering using Spotlight to essentially ser...

Related to: Query Windows Search from Java But this time to use OSX's spotlight I would like to consume OSX spotlight service from Java. Is there an API available? .

I noticed that when I search for "Music" (for example) using Spotlight on the iPhone OS 3.0, the app "Midomi" shows up in the Spotlight results. "Midomi" doesn't exactly match "Music", but yet it a...

On MacOS X, you can write a Spotlight Importer so that your documents and content can be indexed and searched with Spotlight. I would like to write an iPhone app that generates content that can be ...

I am trying to create a Spotlight query that searches for a string in the path of a file (I would like it to match in either the name of the file or the name of any of the folders is contained in)....

I've got bunches of auxiliary files that are generated by code and LaTeX documents that I dearly wish would not be suggested by SpotLight as potential search candidates. I'm not looking for e...