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Saturday, 8 November 2008

Quick Mac Tip: Do some spotlight math

Posted on 20:07 by Unknown
Ever wonder if there is an easier way to do math instead of using the tedious old 'Calculator.app' application? Well... with Leopard there is. Apart from just using Spotlight to search for files and open applications (yes, Spotlight can now open applications thanks to its top hit feature, making Quicksilver rather useless if you mostly use it for applications).

All you need to do is press Cmd + Space, and then just type in the math. Spotlight can do simple math that calculator can do, but don't expect it to do anything involving variables and graphing. But you can do stuff like:

and:

and:

and even more interesting stuff like:


Pretty neat, huh? At least you don't have to use the calculator application or the calculator widget. And yes, putting the Canadian flag over there in the last screenshot was totally accidental =P
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