Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 311

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 311. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Shines a beam of light into files and the web.

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Spotlight

Shines a beam of light (a spotlight) into files and the web (it searches both local files, and the web).

2: The detective who found for Apple from 1998.

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Sherlock

The detective (Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) who found for Apple (it became the Mac’s search tool) from 1998 (introduced in Mac OS 8.5 in 1998).

3: His faithful assistant came from Karelia and went to Java.

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Watson

His faithful assistant (Dr Watson was Sherlock Holmes’ assistant) came from Karelia (developed by Karelia Software) and went to Java (after it was ‘sherlocked’ by Apple, it was ported to Java for Sun).

The common factor

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They have all been search tools popular on the Mac.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.