{"id":5475,"date":"2008-05-28T11:15:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T10:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/mac-tip-combine-cover-flow-and-spotlight\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:30:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:30:40","slug":"mac-tip-combine-cover-flow-and-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mac-tip-combine-cover-flow-and-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Tip: combine Cover Flow and Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I explained how you could make use of <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/tip-browsing-files-with-cover-flow\/\">Cover Flow<\/a> to browse through any sort of files. Cover Flow started out as a separate application to preview album covers until Apple bought it, added it to iTunes and then thought, heck, why not use it for everything. I still prefer viewing items in a column view in the Finder, as it always gives me a clear outlook on the path to a file, yet there are times when Cover Flow view is best. That&#8217;s pretty obvious for pictures and album covers, but it also works great with iCal documents, PDFs and Mail messages as you can get a real good preview and even read what&#8217;s written in the documents without opening them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/screen-capture-4.jpg\" alt=\"preview in Cover Flow\" \/><\/p>\n<p> So how do you get only one of type of file previewed in Cover Flow? You can do this very easily with the help of the Spotlight desktop search. Let&#8217;s take iCal documents as an example. Open up Spotlight, either by pressing the magnifying glass icon on the top right, or by typing CMD + space bar. Then type <em>kind:iCal<\/em>. This will show only iCal documents for you. Now choose &#8216;Show all&#8217; and press enter. Spotlight will open up all the documents it has found in a new Finder search results window. You can now preview all of them in Cover Flow mode.<\/p>\n<p>[Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2008\/04\/15\/mac-101-see-ical-events-in-cover-flow\/\">TUAW<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I explained how you could make use of Cover Flow to browse through any sort of files. Cover Flow started out as a separate application to preview album covers until Apple bought it, added it to iTunes and then thought, heck, why not use it for everything. I still prefer viewing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mac-tip-combine-cover-flow-and-spotlight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mac Tip: combine Cover Flow and Spotlight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336084,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions\/336084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}