For those Mac users out there that are big fans of Google Docs or Google bookmarks, then Google has just the spotlight plugin that you’re looking for.

Google recently announced on their Google Mac Blog the availability of Precipitate, a spotlight or quicksilver plugin that allows you to search and launch your Google Docs and Google Bookmarks.

If your Google Docs library has gotten large and you’d like to be able to quickly search and access those documents from within OS X, then Precipitate is just what you need.

You can download Precipitate from the Google Code library and install its preference pane by opening the downloaded file.

After the file has been downloaded and installed you’ll need to navigate to the Precipitate Preference Pane in system preferences and enter your google account, including “@gmail.com” and your google password. From here Precipitate will connect to your Google Docs and add them to your search results.

Once Precipitate has finished adding Google Docs to Spotlight, you can search for .gdocs to see all Google Docs now included in your Spotlight search results.

Now that we’ve explained how to setup Windows to run on OS X in its own Space by using Parallels its time we explain the quickest and easiest way to launch your Windows applications when you’re working in OS X.

Once you have Windows installed using a Parallels Virtual Machine and you’ve launched some of your Windows’ applications getting back to them from OS X is as easy as searching in Spotlight.

For example, say you’d like to open Microsoft Word 2003 to create a new document based on the news article you just read in Safari.

Instead of switching to your Windows Space and launching Word 2003 from the Start menu you can pull up Spotlight with its keyboard shortcut (command + spacebar), type in Word, select Word 2003 from the populated list and hit enter.

Your screen will automatically move to the correct Space and spotlight will open up your Windows application.

NOTE: You must have previously opened the Windows Application for Safari to have it indexed.