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Spotlight is great to do some fast calculation and conversions.

But can he also do some geeky conversions like Integers <> Hexadecimals or Integers <> Binary ?

Matthieu Riegler
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    Don't think so, but calculator can, Cmd 1/Cmd 3 to swap between – Tetsujin Nov 30 '14 at 10:52
  • @Tetsujin Man, I wish I could up vote your comment 100 times! For development with RGB <--> HEX, your little tip is a huge time saver! Thanks! – mbm29414 Mar 13 '17 at 14:08

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I use Alfred for the Mac -- one of the most used tools I have. https://www.alfredapp.com

You will need the PowerPack for workflows. As a user I would recommend the lifetime update option. It keeps getting better and better.

There is an Alfred workflow created: https://github.com/obstschale/NSC/ that easily does number format conversion.

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This proposes a free alternative to the answer posted above:

As far as I know it can't.

But Alfred is an app that does most things Spotlight can do just as well or better: https://www.alfredapp.com.

If you set the default search engine in Alfred to DuckDuckGo you can use DuckDuckGo to convert hex to int and vice versa. It works quite nicely 0xF1 to int and 241 to hex.

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