Sometimes, just stopping and re-starting Spotlight will do the trick.
This is pretty easy just launch the Terminal and type the following:
sudo mdutil -a -i off
This tells Spotlight to disable indexing on all volumes – your Mac will prompt you for your administrative password.
Re-enabling Spotlight is just as easy, just reverse the off to on:
sudo mdutil -a -i on
Now Spotlight will be back on and hopefully will index as usual.
How to Read AdMob’s Mobile Metrics Reports: “makes it so much more important for free apps to be utilizing effective marketing strategies to help them garner their share of that traffic in an increasingly competitive market environment.”
AdMob was purchased by Google today for $750m.
(Via The Appency Press.)
Bob Tedeschi writes about the iPhone as the Model T of the mobile te4chnology realm
“Today’s smartphones can do almost anything a PC could do in 2007, but in a couple of years smartphones may have enough computing power to enable much more sophisticated applications that truly take advantage of the device’s portability.”
“This idea, labeled ‘the third cloud’ by David P. Reed of MIT, underscores the most profound change for smartphones currently coming to the market — namely, that they need not communicate with the carrier at all.
‘Carriers used to control everything, and now the tables have utterly turned,’ Dr. Lippman said. ‘That’s what’ll make the future so interesting.’”
(Via New York Times.)
1989 – Macintosh Portable
7,250g (16 pound)
10-inch (640 x 400) monochrome display
16 MHz Motorola CPU, 1MB RAM
40MB HDD, 3.5-inch floppy drive
2400 baud modem
$6,500 – $7,300 ($11-12,000 today)
2009 – iPod Touch
115g (4.05 oz)
3.5-inch (480 x 320) multi-touch display
600 MHz ARM CPU, 256MB RAM
32GB or 64GB flash drive
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
$299/$399 for 32/64GB
It arrived on Monday morning, just before I left on a trip to the WES 2009 conference in Orlando. I got back on Wednesday but I made myself tidy up my physical desk before I unboxed it on Friday.
Now that it’s here and I’ve been using it for 1 day, 21 hours and 43 minutes (thanks to iStat) I can’t understand why I didn’t order one earlier. I always though that my two processor G5 was pretty cool, until now.
I decided that rather than migrate my old profile to my new machine, I should see how far Cloud computing has really taken me, and where does my ‘critical data’ really live. Besides it’s always nice to start with a clean machine and only install applications that you need (and actually use) rather than migrating the cobwebs (and unused preferences) from an old machine.
So here’s a list of (my) essential applications:
Oh, to be in England
Now that April’s there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England—now!
And after April, when May follows,
And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray’s edge—
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children’s dower
—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
– Robert Browning
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