If you like to organize your apps in Launchpad, Apple has finally lifted the limit on how many can fit inside folders. They work similar to the way they do in iOS; once there are too many to display on one page, a tiny white dot will appear; swipe left or click on it and [...]

If you want your Mac to understand your words, you’ll need to turn that function on — like always — inside the Dictation & Speech pane in System Preferences. But if you want to enable Enhanced Dictation for offline use in Yosemite, it’s a separate 1.2GB download, so make sure you turn it on before [...]

Simply clicking the green button won’t enlarge windows anymore, but if you hold down the option key, it’ll mimic the old way of doing things. Apple also made it so you can double-click the title bar to make a window bigger, but if you’d rather have the old minimizing functionality back, just head over to [...]

OS X’s traffic-light window controls have done the same three things since we first laid eyes on 'em — red closes, yellow minimizes, and green embiggens — so we were surprised to learn that Apple has switched things up in Yosemite. Instead of getting a slightly bigger window when you click the green button, it’ll [...]

The Notification Center in Yosemite might look a lot like it does in iOS, but Apple has given us an old-fashioned way to organize our widgets. To change the position of any of your active widgets, simply drag them to where you want them to go and drop them in place. It's that easy. (MacLife)

You might have heard that Apple added widgets to the Notification Center in iOS, but it wasn’t as widely reported that they added them to OS X, too. They operate just the way they do on your iPhone and iPad; call up the Notification Center, and you’ll see all of your active widgets in a [...]

Dashboard is very slowly going the way of the dinosaur, but if you still use it, there’s a new option in Yosemite. Well, actually, it’s an old one: head over to the Mission Control settings and you’ll see a dropdown menu that lets you set Dashboard as a Space (like it was in Mavericks) or [...]

Bloggers and developers are going to love this one. Where they previously had to fire up an iOS simulator on their Mac and use third-party software to record a screencast of something on their iPhone or iPad, Apple has made it easy using iOS 8 and Yosemite. When you plug your iOS device into a [...]

Airdrop has always had the potential to be great, but by limiting it to like OSes, we’ve never really used it much. That might change in Yosemite. Apple has finally allowed iOS and OS X to communicate over Airport, so we can instantly and easily share notes, photos and whatever else needs to get from [...]

iCloud users have always had to resort to Dropbox or Google Drive if they wanted access to their files, but with Yosemite and iCloud Drive, they might not have to rely on them quite so much. Click on the new iCloud Drive icon in the Finder sidebar and you’ll see all of your documents, but [...]