Spotlight is the search technology introduced in OS X Tiger 10.4. Apple has said that they have made major improvements in Spotlight, with the companies latest OS release OS X Leopard or 10.5. And it does in fact work better than in the previous release. It does its searches by indexing your hard drives files so that when you use the little magnifying glass in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Spotlight can give you email, folders, docs and pdf’s that have relevant data in them. This is a very handy feature and requires no effort by the end user to start. (more…)