Not finding

Every wish you could use the command line find utility but have it exclude directories? Yea, me too, all the find. No seriously. And it turns out it’s pretty easy to do, too… it only took me a decade or two to stumble on the solution:

$ find . ‘!’ ‘(‘ -name ‘.cvs*’ -prune ‘)’

There you go, [...]

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Precipitate

Oh, this is cool.
Precipitate lets you search for and launch the information you have stored in the cloud from within Spotlight or Google Desktop for Mac. It currently supports Google Bookmarks and Google Docs. Precipitate works by creating files on your machine that are imported by Spotlight, then periodically checking in with the server [...]

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