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Analytics firm Applause launches the Applause Index

by Mike Schramm (Mar 7th, 2013)

I'm not sure how useful this idea is, but it is interesting, and we'll see how it all plays out. Applause is an analytics firm that purports to measure app quality and user satisfaction, by scanning the App Store for rankings, sales and reviews (there are a few other companies that do this ...

Media Catalog 4.0 faster, supports Quick Look

by Steven Sande (Jul 7th, 2008)

People who are religious about backups, especially those who use removable media like CDs or DVDs as backup media, often find themselves in a world of hurt when they try to find individual files on a pile of discs. It's worse than finding the proverbial needle in a haystack! Developer Robert Kuilman ...

Tracking the Keynote Index Fund

by Mike Schramm (Jan 1st, 2008)

Matt Haughey has worked up a little analysis/thought experiment of just how much money could be made by buying stocks before every Macworld Keynote of the past ten years-- he calls it the Keynote Index Fund, and has the stock prices before every keynote, directly after every 'note, and a day after ...

VacuumMail: Automate Vacuuming Your Mail Index

by Mat Lu (Mar 18th, 2007)

A while back we mentioned a neat trick for speeding up Mail.app by "vacuuming" its SQlite database. Now the original source of the tip, Tim Gaden over at Hawk Wings, points to Leland Scott's VacuumMail, which utilizes a little AppleScript and launchd to automate this process. Tim also notes that if ...

TUAW Tip: force Spotlight to re-index some apps

by David Chartier (Feb 22nd, 2007)

I recently was fortunate enough to upgrade to a MacBook Pro, which means my wife can now get her mobile on with a MacBook. After I moved everything over and got to work with the new machine, I noticed some strangeness with Spotlight and Yojimbo: apparently, thanks to some quirk of bits and bytes, ...