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Alfred or Spotlight – Finding A File’s Location

June 28, 2013 By Scott Blitstein 1 Comment

Why Would I Want To Know This? This guide is inspired by a reader question as well as a recent discussion I had about why I use the application Alfred. The question came to me as "I am using Spotlight to find files and while it will let me open them, I can't figure out where they are or how to actually get to the file on my computer. Can you help?" I got to work … [Read more...] about Alfred or Spotlight – Finding A File’s Location

How To Prevent Parallels Applications From Appearing in Alfred Search Results

June 3, 2013 By Scott Blitstein 11 Comments

Why Would I Want To Do This? If you are a user of both the Alfred Launcher application and the Parallels app to run Windows (or other Operating System) Applications, you may find that you accidentally open these applications from Alfred search results. This can be problematic because it causes your whole Parallels Virtual Machine to launch if not already open. After a few … [Read more...] about How To Prevent Parallels Applications From Appearing in Alfred Search Results

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