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Is Spotlight spying on you?

spotlight iconI'm not sure what the Mac Observer's John Kheit has on his hard drives, and I am not sure I want to know. He seems a little too worried about the metadata that built in OS search tools like Spotlight, or its Windows counterpart, are storing as a matter of course.

All kidding aside, the fact that many more files are now storing metadata is something every computer user should be aware of to avoid many issues. Give John's column a read and then become paranoid about what your files know about you.

Tip of the Day

Use Spotlight as a reference tool. Type any word in the Spotlight box and one of the top entries will be a definition. Click on it, and it will bring up the dictionary application to check the word in either the dictionary, thesaurus, Apple database, or Wikipedia.


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