“I didn’t feel like fishing around in my documents folder,” she said. “This is faster.”

Besides showing how quick kids are to embrace new technology, the episode put the spotlight on, er, Spotlight, Tiger’s new disk search system, which is probably the most revolutionary feature of the newest version of Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh system software. It’s a quick, accurate search feature that makes it easy to find text, image and mail messages. Spotlight is a huge improvement on previous search engines, which either just searched for file names or haphazardly indexed data about hard-disk files.

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