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New Spotlight E-Book


The First and Only Dedicated Book on Mac OS X's Spotlight Technology

SpiderWorks, LLC today announced the exclusive eBook release of the "Mac OS X Technology Guide to Spotlight" by Rich Morin and David Hill, an in-depth developer's guide to adding the search power of Spotlight to Mac OS X applications.

As the first published book dedicated to Spotlight, this new PDF eBook is now available from the SpiderWorks.com web site for only $12.95 (US). A printed softcover edition will be released later this month.

While this book shows you how to take advantage of Spotlight's blazingly fast search capabilities in your daily computing tasks, it also goes way beyond the basics, providing comprehensive coverage of the Spotlight API for developers. Spotlight aficionados Rich Morin and David Hill will teach you:

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Other Mac OS X Technology Guides include Ben Waldie's "Mac OS X Technology Guide to Automator" (with free PDF Preview); and Danny Goodman's "Mac OS X Technology Guide to Dashboard". Please visit the SpiderWorks.com web site for details.

Title: Mac OS X Technology Guide to Spotlight
Authors: Rich Morin and David Hill
Publisher: SpiderWorks, LLC
eBook: PDF format, 189 pages, $12.95 (US)

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Rich Morin runs Canta Forda Computer Laboratory, providing writing, editing, and programming services. He is interested in the use of semi-structured data as a way to combine human-contributed and mechanically-harvested information into useful, readable documentation.

David Hill is a freelance writer and author of SpiderWorks' "Cocoa Game Programming Workshop". In a former life, he worked in Apple's Developer Technical Support group helping developers print, draw, and write games.

SpiderWorks specializes in how-to eBooks and printed books, providing quality content from respected authors at a low price. Where it takes some publishers several months to get new technology-related books into the hands of customers, SpiderWorks is able to bypass those traditional print production hurdles by embracing the eBook format and utilizing the advanced print-on-demand publishing services of Lulu.com, satisfying the immediate needs of today's digital lifestyles in a timely, cost-effective manner. For more information, visit http://www.spiderworks.com

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