Extend your Spotlight Search with Spotlaser
Spotlaser is an easy to use shareware application that makes finding files on your really large hard drive easy!
The Spotlaser search bar at the top of the Spotlaser window provides the ability to perform a quick filename-only search, much like the way searches worked in previous versions (pre 10.4) of Mac OS X. This enables you to find that file without sorting through all the extra files that a normal Spotlight search would throw at you. Use the wildcard character * if you don’t know the exact name of the file you’re after.
There’s also the ability to search specific locations, by time frame, author, composer, content, metatags and much, much more.
What I like most about it is that it finds what I expect. I’m often surprised by files found using Searchlight as they don’t seem relative – Spotlaser seems more accurate, though not quite as fast.
A surge protector is no gaurantee against a surge knocking out a computer – and there doesn’t have to be lightening. Summer surges are common, especially on hot days in the Northeast when all those window AC units turn on. Surges hit at different frequencies – one that knocks out a VCR may not touch an alarm clock. Or, as happened to me two years ago, a surge can hit just right to fry a computer plugged into a surge protector, but not bother the cable modem or lamp. It’s rare, but it does happen.
You’re right about that Anne. Even the most expensive surge protectors can fail to protect your equipment thoroughly from all types of surges, however, most decent protectors do come with an insurance policy, so you can at least get your equipment replaced.
You forgot one of my favorite protectors, and it’s pretty cheap and works great!
http://www.smalldog.com/product/38394