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  "title": "SpotMeta fixes Spotlight for OS X Tiger",
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  "html": "<p>I just realized that I've been remiss and have yet to mention <a href=\"http://www.fluffy.co.uk/spotmeta/\">Ben Summers' SpotMeta</a>.  </p>\n<p>Remember when I was <a href=\"http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/06/10/blosxom-tiger-and-spotlight\">grousing about the disconnect between Spotlight and HFS Extended Attributes</a>?  <a href=\"http://www.fluffy.co.uk/spotmeta/\">SpotMeta</a> fixes this disconnect.  </p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.fluffy.co.uk/spotmeta/\">SpotMeta</a> allows you to set pretty much any arbitrary name/value pairs on any file, to be indexed and searchable by Spotlight.  Furthermore, it provides GUI tools and Finder integration to make it all usable in practical day-to-day work.</p>\n<p>I haven't had time to spend playing with it much or to figure out exactly how it works, but I think the possibilities are just beginning for this fine hack.  Will it realize the promise I saw in BeFS for a filesystem/database hybrid?</p>\n<!-- tags: tiger osx spotlight spotmeta -->\n",
  "body": "I just realized that I've been remiss and have yet to mention [Ben Summers' SpotMeta][sm].  \r\n\r\nRemember when I was [grousing about the disconnect between Spotlight and HFS Extended Attributes][gr]?  [SpotMeta][sm] fixes this disconnect.  \r\n\r\n[SpotMeta][sm] allows you to set pretty much any arbitrary name/value pairs on any file, to be indexed and searchable by Spotlight.  Furthermore, it provides GUI tools and Finder integration to make it all usable in practical day-to-day work.\r\n\r\nI haven't had time to spend playing with it much or to figure out exactly how it works, but I think the possibilities are just beginning for this fine hack.  Will it realize the promise I saw in BeFS for a filesystem/database hybrid?\r\n\r\n[sm]: http://www.fluffy.co.uk/spotmeta/\r\n[gr]: http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/06/10/blosxom-tiger-and-spotlight\r\n\r\n<!-- tags: tiger osx spotlight spotmeta -->\r\n",
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