How to run iPhone emulator WITHOUT starting Xcode?

On my old Mac running Snow Leopard, I could type “ios” into spotlight and it would start up the iPhone/iPad emulator by itself.

I have since had to get a new machine running Lion. I have installed Xcode for Lion, I have installed the developer tool options from the preferences panel.

But the “ios” option is no longer there 🙁 The only way now seems to be to run Xcode, create an empty project and then launch emulator with the run option.

I have searched and searched the intertubes and the facewebs, but nothing helps.

Does anyone know how to run only the emulator on Lion?

UPDATE:
THIS IS RESPONSE TO @ike_love thread below.
THAT answer is not assured to work on all Yosemite machines.

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