Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 223

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 223. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Beam of light on stage to locate files and web pages since 2005.

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Spotlight

Beam of light on stage (a spotlight) to locate files and web pages (what it does) since 2005 (introduced in Mac OS X Tiger).

2: This detective extended find file to include the web in 1997.

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Sherlock

This detective (Sherlock Holmes) extended find file (it was the successor to Find File) to include the web (it included Web search too) in 1997 (introduced in System 8.5).

3: His faithful assistant came from Karelia and ended up in Java.

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Watson

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

The common factor

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They are all search/find features for Macs.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.